Directorate
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The names, ages, qualifications and experience of the Kumba Iron Ore directors are set out below.
BSc, BEng (Elect), Pr Eng
Allen joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 9 February 2006 and is a member of the Audit, Risk, Safety and Sustainable Development and the Human Resources, Remuneration and Nomination committees. He was appointed as Interim Chairman of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 15 December 2010. He served as the chief executive of Eskom between 1994 and 2000 and was a non-executive director of Eskom Holdings. He was appointed as a non-executive director of AECI Limited on 1 July 2010 and also holds several corporate directorships. He was previously the chairman of Kumba Resources. |
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B Eng (Mining) (Hons), Pr Eng
Chris joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 1 July 2008 and is the Chief Executive Officer. He was previously the Executive Head of Joint Ventures for Anglo Platinum Limited. Chris serves as a non-executive director on the board of Exxaro Resources Limited and is also a director of Anglo American South Africa Limited. He has over 19 years of mine management experience and was previously General Manager of Anglo Platinum’s Amandebult Platinum Mine and Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine. |
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BCom (Law), BCom (Hons), CA(SA), FCMA
Gert joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 9 February 2006 and is a member of the Risk committee. He is the chief financial officer and alternate director of the Industrial Development Corporation. He is also a director of Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd and holds several other corporate directorships. |
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MBA, BSc (Eng)
David joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 10 February 2010. He is Anglo American plc’s Group Director of business performance and capital projects. He also serves as a non-executive director of International Power plc, London UK. His previous positions include Group Technical Director, Anglo American plc, CEO of Anglo American Industrial Minerals (The Tarmac Group), President of Shell Canada Products Limited and Chief Executive Officer of Shell Aviation. |
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BProc, LLB, HDip Tax Law
Dolly joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 7 April 2006 and is a member of the Audit, Risk and Safety committee and chairs the Sustainable Development committee. She is an executive director of the Peotona Group Holdings. She also holds several other corporate directorships. She was the chief executive officer of Spoornet and managing director of Transmission at Eskom. |
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B.Acc CA (Z) MBL
Godfrey joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 17 May 2010 and is a member of the Risk committee. He is the Executive Director for Anglo American South Africa Limited. He was previously Head of Group Business Development, Africa for Anglo American plc and prior to that, Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer of Anglo American SA. He is Chairman of Anglo Zimele and Tshikululu Social Investments and has served on a number of Anglo American Operating Board and Executive Committees. Before moving to SA in 2003, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive of Anglo American Zimbabwe. He is a past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe and past Senior Vice President of the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe. He held many directorships in both listed and unlisted companies. |
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BCom, CA(SA)
Litha joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 14 June 2011 and is a member of the Audit Committee. He is the executive chairman of Regiments Capital (Pty) Ltd and serves as a non executive director on the boards of AECI Limited, Sovereign Food Investments Ltd and Plessey (Pty) Ltd. In 2004 Litha and his partners established Regiments Capital. Litha is responsible for building and growing Regiment’s investment unit, which holds interests in a number of companies in key sectors including Engineering, Specialised Property Development and Banking. |
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BSc (Hons) (Political Science), Masters (Southern African Studies)
Peter joined the board of Kumba Iron Ore Limited on 9 February 2006 and is a member of the Safety and Sustainable Development and the Human Resources, Remuneration and Nomination committees. He is chief executive officer of Tiger Brands. He was chief strategy and business development director in the Vodacom Group. His previous positions include commercial director of Vodacom South Africa, and chief executive officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. |
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BAcc, CA(SA)
Zarina joined the board of Kumba on 2 December 2008 and chairs the Audit and Risk Committees. She is the chief executive officer of Zarina Bassa Investments and executive chairman of Songhai Capital. She is chairman of Yebo Yethu Ltd and deputy chairman of Woolworths Financial Services. She serves as a non-executive director of Vodacom South Africa, Sun International, the Lewis Group, National Business Initiative and the Financial Services Board. She was a partner at Ernst & Young where she spent 17 years across the Durban, United Kingdom and Johannesburg offices. She has also previously chaired the Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ Board and the Auditing Standards Board and has been a member of the Accounting Standards Board, the JSE’s GAAP Monitoring Panel, the board of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants’ and vice president of ABASA. |
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* Zimbabwean
† British
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