Board of directors |
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS |
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DESMOND SACCO |
R J CARPENTER |
Chairman | Deputy Chairman |
BSc (Hons) (Geology) (Wits) (Unisa) | BA, ACIS |
Des qualified as a geologist and joined the Assore group in 1968. | Bob joined the Ore & Metal Company Limited in 1964 and was |
He was appointed to the Assore board in 1974 and, on retirement | appointed Managing Director in 1991. Ore & Metal is a wholly owned |
of his father in 1992, he was appointed Chairman and Managing | subsidiary of the Assore group and is marketing and shipping agent |
Director. In that year, he was also appointed Deputy Chairman of | for all products produced by Assore and Assmang group companies. |
Assmang Limited and in 1999, he became Chairman of Assmang. | He was appointed to the Assore board in 1987, to the Assmang |
He is a fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD) and of the | Board in 1989 and was made Deputy Chairman of Assore in 1993. |
Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA). | |
P C CROUS |
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C J CORY |
Group Technical Director |
Chief Executive Officer | BSc (Eng), BComm, MBA |
BA, CA(SA), MBA (Wits) | |
Chris completed articles with Alex.Aiken & Carter (now KPMG) | Phil trained as a mining engineer obtaining a BSc (Eng) at Pretoria |
and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982. In 1989 he | University in 1975. Thereafter he joined Iscor, and in 1977 he took |
joined the Assore group as Group Accountant. In 1992 he was | up a position with Assmang where he advanced to Mine Manager. |
appointed Group Financial Director and made Chief Executive | In 1982 he joined Sasol as General Mine Manager and was subsequently |
Officer in June 2004 when the roles of Assore Chairman and | promoted to Operations Manager at Secunda Collieries, responsible |
Managing Director were separated. He was appointed to the | for four mechanised mines. In 1988 he joined manufacturing company |
Assmang Board as a non-executive director in 1993 and | Sandock-Austral as Managing Director. In 1991 he was invited to join |
currently chairs the Assmang Audit Committee. He is a member | Assore in his current position as Group Technical Director and was |
of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). | 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 |
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Directors (IOD). | |
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS |
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P N BOYNTON | M C RAMAPHOSA |
Non-executive director | Non-executive director |
BSc (Hons), BComm, CA(SA), ACMA, MBA | BProc |
Paul joined Old Mutuals investment team in 1995, having | Cyril is executive chairman of Shanduka Group, a black-owned and |
previously worked as an investment banker in Johannesburg | managed investment company. He is joint non-executive chairman |
for seven years and before that for Deloitte for three years. He | of Mondi Group and non-executive chairman of the MTN Group Limited, |
is currently head of Alternative Asset Management at Old Mutual | the Bidvest Group and SASRIA Limited. His other directorships include |
and an executive director of Old Mutual Investment Group | SAB Miller, Macsteel,Alexander Forbes and Standard Bank. |
South Africa. He joined the Assore board as a non-executive | |
director in July 2004 and served until 27 August 2008 on the | He is a member of the Commonwealth Business Council and Vice- |
groups Audit Committee. | Chairman of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS,Tuberculosis |
and Malaria (GBC). He was general secretary of NUM in the 1980s. | |
B M HAWKSWORTH |
Cyril, as Secretary General of the African National Congress (the ANC) |
Independent non-executive director | from 1991 1994 led the party in the negotiations that resulted in South |
CA(SA) | Africas first democratic elections in 1994. After chairing the constitutional |
assembly, he left politics for business in 1997. He is the former chairman | |
Brian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Durban and relocated | of the Black Economic Empowerment Commission (1998 2001). Cyril, a |
to Johannesburg in 1973 as a partner in Ernst & Young. Since | qualified lawyer, remains a member of the ANC and its national executive |
withdrawing as a partner of Ernst & Young he has held several | committee. |
non-executive directorships including the Financial Services Board | |
(the FSB). He was appointed to the Assore board as an | DR J C VAN DER HORST |
independent non-executive director in 1996 and currently chairs | Independent non-executive director |
the Assore Audit and Remuneration Committees. He is a member | BA, LLD |
of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) | |
and was a past member of its Council and Executive Committee | Johannes studied at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Hamburg |
and is also a fellow of the Institute of Directors which he chaired | (Germany) and the Harvard Business School. He held various positions in |
in the early 1990s. | Old Mutual from 1971 to 2002 including General Manager (Investments) |
from 1985 to 1997. In September 1997, he was appointed to head up | |
Old Mutuals demutualisation project which culminated in the listing of | |
Old Mutual on the London Stock Exchange and the JSE Limited in | |
July 1999. He served on the Assore board between 1989 and 1997, and | |
again since January 2003 when he was appointed as an independent | |
non-executive director and serves on the groups Audit and Remuneration | |
Committees. He is also on the boards of Reunert Limited and Wooltru | |
Limited. | |