Anglo American Annual Report 2012

Sir John ParkerCynthia CarrollRené MédoriDavid ChallenSir CK ChowSir Philip HamptonPhuthuma NhlekoRay O’RourkeAnne Stevens Jack Thompson Peter WoickeMark CutifaniIncoming CEOByron GroteNominated independentnon-executive directorAnne StevensPhD, BSc64, joined the Board on 15 May2012 and is a member of the AuditCommittee. She has served on theboard of Lockheed Martin Corporationas a non-executive director since2002 and is also the chairman andCEO of a privately held IT servicesbusiness, SA IT.Anne’s 16-year career with FordMotor Company culminated in herappointment as chief operating officer(COO) for the Americas, a positionshe held until 2006.Prior to joining Ford in 1990, Annespent ten years in a number ofengineering, product developmentand sales and marketing roles atExxon Chemical Co and threeyears as chairman and CEO ofCarpenter Technology.Anne brings a wealth of experiencefrom a number of global industries.Her engineering training and widerangingcommercial acumen andexperience gained across North,Central and South America hasstrengthened the experience ofthe Board.Jack ThompsonBSc, PhD63, joined the Board on 16 November2009 and is a member of theRemuneration and S&SD Committees.He will become chairman of the S&SDCommittee upon the retirement ofPeter Woicke in April 2013. He iscurrently a non-executive directorof Molycorp Minerals LLC andTidewater Inc.Jack was previously chairman andCEO of Homestake Mining Co., vicechairman of Barrick Gold Corp. andhas served on the boards of CenterraGold Inc., Century Aluminum Co.,Phelps Dodge Corp., Rinker GroupLtd. and Stillwater Mining.Jack brings experience gained atall levels of the mining industry andhas received wide recognition as amining executive.Peter WoickeMBA70, joined the Board on 1 January2006, is chairman of the S&SDCommittee and is a member ofthe Nomination and RemunerationCommittees.He is currently a member of the boardof trustees of the Ashesi UniversityFoundation and a member of theboards of Saudi Aramco, the Institutefor Human Rights and Business andthe Chesapeake Bay Foundation.From 1999 to 2005, Peter wasexecutive vice president of theInternational Finance Corporation(IFC). Prior to joining the IFC, Peterheld numerous positions for nearly30 years with J.P. Morgan and hewas also a managing director of theWorld Bank.Peter has indicated that he wishesto retire from the Board this yearand accordingly will not be standingfor re-election at the AGM in April.INCOMING CEOMark CutifaniBE (Mining Engineering)54, has been appointed as a directorand CEO with effect from 3 April 2013.Mark is currently CEO of AngloGoldAshanti Limited, a position he has heldsince 2007. Before joining AngloGoldAshanti, Mark was COO at Vale Incowhere he was responsible for Vale’sglobal nickel business. Prior to this heheld senior executive positions withthe Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia,Western Mining Corporation,Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Minesand CRA (Rio Tinto).Mark has over 35 years’experience of the mining industryacross a wide range of geographiesand commodities.NOMINATED INDEPENDENTNON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORByron GrotePhD Quantitative Analysis64, is a non-executive director ofUnilever NV and Unilever plc anda member of the Cornell UniversityJohnson Graduate School ofManagement Advisory Council.He joined The Standard Oil Companyof Ohio in 1979 and in 1985 becamedirector of planning for its miningsubsidiary, Kennecott.In 1988 Byron was appointed ascommercial vice president for BP’sAlaskan North Slope productionactivities. In 1989 he becamecommercial general manager of BPexploration, based in London, andthen group treasurer and CEO of BPfinance in 1992. In 1994 he took up theposition of regional chief executive inLatin America. In 1995 Byron becamedeputy CEO of BP Exploration.Following the merger of BP andAmoco in 1999, Byron was appointedexecutive vice president, explorationand production. He was appointed tothe BP board in 2000 and he servedfor two years as CEO of BP Chemicalsand then as BP’s chief financial officer(CFO) from 2002 until 31 December2011. He will retire from the board ofBP in April 2013.Byron has been nominated forelection as a director at the AGM on19 April 2013.GovernanceAnglo American plc Annual Report 2012 93