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Desmond Sacco
Chairman
BSc (Hons) (Geology) (Wits) (Unisa)
Des qualified as a geologist and joined the Assore group in 1968. He was appointed to the Assore Board in 1974 and, on retirement of his father in 1992, he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director. In that year, he was also appointed Deputy Chairman of Assmang Limited and in 1999, he became Chairman of Assmang. He is a fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD) and of the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA). |
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C J Cory
Chief Executive Officer
BA, CA (SA), MBA (Wits)
Chris completed articles with Alex. Aiken & Carter (now KPMG) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982. In 1989 he joined the Assore group as Group Accountant. In 1992, he was appointed Group Financial Director and made Chief Executive Officer in June 2004 when the roles of Chairman and Managing Director were split. He was appointed to the Assmang Board as a non-executive director in 1993 and currently chairs the Assmang Audit Committee. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). |
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P C Crous
Group Technical Director
BSc (Eng), BComm, MBA
Phil trained as a mining engineer obtaining a BSc (Eng) at Pretoria University in 1975. Thereafter he joined Iscor, and in 1977 he took up a position with Assmang where he advanced to Mine Manager. In 1982, he joined Sasol as General Mine Manager and was subsequently promoted to Operations Manager at Secunda Collieries, responsible for four mechanised mines. In 1988 he joined manufacturing company Sandock-Austral as Managing Director. In 1991 he was invited to join Assore in his current position as Group Technical Director and was appointed to the Assmang Board in 1992. He is a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and the Institute of Directors (IOD). |
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E M Southey
Deputy Chairman and lead independent non-executive director
BA, LLB
Ed was admitted as an attorney, notary and conveyancer in 1968 and practiced as a partner of Webber Wentzel until his retirement as senior partner of that firm in 2006. He remains an executive consultant to the firm. He is a former president of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces and of the Law Society of South Africa. He is a director of a number of companies. He joined the Assore board as a non-executive director in January 2009 and chairs the Group's audit and risk, and remuneration committees.
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R J Carpenter
Non-executive director
BA, ACIS
Bob joined the Ore & Metal Company Limited in 1964 and was appointed Managing Director in 1991. Ore & Metal is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Assore group and acts as selling and shipping agent for products produced by all the Assmang and Assore group companies. He was appointed to the Assore Board in 1987 and to the Assmang Board in 1989. He served as Deputy Chairman of Assore from 1993, and in November 2010 stood down in this capacity, following his retirement as executive director in February 2011. |
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DMJ Ncube
Independent non-executive director
BA (Econ), MSc (Mgt)
D.Com (HC) (Transkei)
Post Grad Dips in Labour Relations and Financial Management
Don was appointed a director of Assore on 3 May 2011 and is also an independent non-executive director of Goldfields Limited.
Previously, he was an alternate director of Anglo American Industrial Corporation and Anglo American Corporation, a director of AngloGold Ashanti as well as non-executive Chair of South African Airways, Real Africa Asset Management, African Life Assurance, Sun International SA Limited, Oceana Fishing Limited and Atomic Energy Corporation. He is currently Managing Director of Vula Mining Supplies and Executive Chair of Badimo Gas.
He has also been the recipient of numerous awards including IPM Presidents Award (1990), Business Day’s Business Achievement Award (1994) and Human Resources Award of Excellence (1994). |
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W F Urmson
Independent non-executive director
CA (SA)
Bill was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Assore in October 2010 and serves on the group’s audit and risk, and remuneration committees. He is a former Deputy Chairman of Ernst & Young and has served the accounting profession as Chairman of the Accounting Practices and Ethics committees of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is a former Director: Surveillance of the JSE Limited and remains as a part-time consultant to the exchange with responsibility for internal audit. |
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