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| | | MR M CUTIFANI (52)
BE (Min. Eng)
Chief Executive Officer
Mark Cutifani was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 17 September 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2007. He is chairman of the Executive Committee and a member of the Transformation and Human Resources Development, Safety, Health and Sustainable Development, Risk and Information Integrity and Investment committees. Mark has considerable experience in gold mining, having been associated with the industry since 1976. Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti, he held the position of chief operating officer at CVRD Inco, a Toronto-based company, where he was responsible for Inco's global nickel business. | | | | | | MR S VENKATAKRISHNAN (VENKAT) (45)
BCom, ACA (ICAI)
Chief Financial Officer
Venkat joined AngloGold Ashanti on 1 July 2004 from Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (Ashanti) where he was Chief Financial Officer until that company's merger with AngloGold Limited in May 2004. He was appointed to the board on 1 August 2005, is a member of the Executive, Risk and Information Integrity and Investment committees and is invited to attend meetings of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committee. Venkat has extensive financial experience, having been a director in the reorganisation services division of Deloitte & Touche in London prior to joining Ashanti in 2000. | | | | | | | Non-Executive Directors | |
| | | MR TT MBOWENI (51)
BA, MA - Development Economics
Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director
Tito Mboweni was appointed to the board and as chairman of AngloGold Ashanti on 1 June 2010. Mr Mboweni has a long and outstanding record of public service. As Labour Minister from 1994 to 1998, he was the architect of South Africa’s post-apartheid labour legislation which today continues to provide the basis for the mutually respectful labour relationships central to AngloGold Ashanti’s operational approach in South Africa. The past ten years have cemented his reputation as one of the world’s foremost and highly respected Central Bank governors. He is chairman of the Nominations Committee and is a member of the Investment, Financial Analysis and Party Political Donation Committees. | | | | | | MR FB ARISMAN (66)
MSc (Finance)
Independent Non-Executive
Frank Arisman joined the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 1 April 1998. He is chairman of the Financial Analysis and Investment Committees, and a member of the Safety, Health and Sustainable Development, Audit and Corporate Governance, Nominations, Risk and Information Integrity and Remuneration Committees. . Frank, who resides in the USA, has a rich background in management and finance through his experiences at JP Morgan where he held various positions prior to his retirement. | | | | | | MR R GASANT (51)
CA (SA)
Independent Non-Executive Director
Rhidwaan Gasant was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 12 August 2010 and is chairman of the Risk and Information Integrity Committee, and a member of the Audit and Corporate Governance, Nominations and Financial Analysis Committees. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Energy Africa Limited and sits on the board of international companies in the MTN Group. | | | | | | MR F OHENE-KENA (74)
MSc Engineering, DIC and ACSM
Independent Non-Executive
Ferdinand (Fred) Ohene-Kena was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 1 June 2010. He is the former Ghanaian Minister of Mines and Energy and is currently a member of the Ghana Judicial Council, He is the Chairman of the Ghana Minerals Commission and is a member of the President’s Economic Advisory Council. Mr Ohene-Kena is a member of the Safety, Health & Sustainable Development, Transformation and Human Resources Development and Nominations Committees. | | | | | | PROF LW NKUHLU (66)
BCom, CA (SA), MBA (New York University)
Independent Non-Executive
Wiseman Nkuhlu was appointed to the board on 4 August 2006. He has been the chairman of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committee since 5 May 2007, having served as deputy chairman from 4 August 2006. He also serves as a member of the Financial Analysis, Risk and Information Integrity, Safety, Health and Sustainable Development, Nominations, Party Political Donations and Remuneration committees. Wiseman, a respected South African academic, educationist, professional and business leader, served as Economic Adviser to the former President of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki, and as Chief Executive of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) from 2000 to 2005. From 1989 to 2000, he served as a director on a number of major South African companies, including Standard Bank, South African Breweries, Old Mutual, Tongaat Hulett, BMW and JCI. Wiseman was President of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants from 1998 to 2000 and Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Transkei from 1987 to 1991. He is also a member of the board of Datatec Limited. He was elected President of the Geneva-based International Organization of Employers (IOE) in May 2008 for a period of two years. He is a member of the Financial Crisis Advisory Group of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). | | | | | | MR WA NAIRN (66)
BSc (Mining Engineering)
Independent Non-Executive
Bill Nairn has been a member of the board of AngloGold Ashanti since 1 January 2000 and chairs the Safety, Health and Sustainable Development Committee. He is a member of the Transformation and Human Resources Development, Investment, Party Political Donations, Risk and Information Integrity and Nominations Committees. Bill, a mining engineer, has considerable technical experience, having been the group technical director of Anglo American plc until 2004 when he retired from the company. Having completed the three-year cooling period, Bill is now considered an independent non-executive director of AngloGold Ashanti. | | | | | | MR SM PITYANA (51)
BA (Hons) (Essex), MSc (London); Dtech (Honoris)(Vaal University of Technology)
Independent Non-Executive
Sipho Pityana joined the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 13 February 2007 and assumed the chairmanship of the Remuneration Committee on 1 August 2008. He is a member of the Safety, Health and Sustainable Development, Party Political Donations, Investment, Nominations, Financial Analysis, Risk and Information Integrity and the Transformation and Human Resources Development committees. Sipho has extensive experience in management and finance, and has occupied strategic roles in both the public and private sectors, including that of Director General of the national departments of both labour and foreign affairs. He was formerly a senior executive of Nedbank Limited and is currently the executive chairman of Izingwe Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, a local empowerment group and a significant investor in mining, engineering, infrastructure and logistics, and AngloGold Ashanti’s BEE partner. He serves as a non-executive director on the boards of several other South African companies. | | | | | | MRS NP JANUARY-BARDILL (60)
BA Education and MA Applied Linguistics
Independent Non-Executive Director
Nozipho January-Bardill was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 1 October 2011. She recently retired from MTN Group where she served as Executive Director and Spokesperson for the Group and on the boards of a number of operations in the MTN footprint. She is a former South African Ambassador to Switzerland, a former Deputy Director General, Human Capital Management and Head of the Foreign Service Institute in the then Department of Foreign Affairs (now DIRCO). She was a member of the UN Expert Committee on the Elimination of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances for 8 years. She is currently the founder and Executive Director of Bardill & Associates, a consulting company focussing on Strategic Communications, High Level Government Relations and Stakeholder Management. | | | | | | MR RJ RUSTON (61)
MBA, Business; BE (Mining)
Rodney Ruston was appointed to the board of AngloGold Ashanti on 1 January 2012. Rodney, a mining engineer, has over 35 years of experience in the resources industry. He is currently the President and CEO of North American Energy Partners, a large Canadian mining and construction contracting company listed on the NYSE and the TSX. | | | | | |
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