Anglo American Annual Report 2012

EXCO MEMBERSPaulo Castellari-PorchiaBCom, MBA42, is CEO of Iron Ore Brazil. He waspreviously CEO of Anglo American’sPhosphates and Niobium businessesin Brazil and served in Anglo American’sformer Base Metals division. Paulo’scareer with the Group started in1993 and has included positions atAngloGold Ashanti and Minorco in anumber of corporate finance and capitalproject roles.Walter De SimoniBSc (Mining Eng)57, is CEO of Nickel. Walter joinedAnglo American in 1978. He wasappointed president of Anglo BaseMetals Brazil in 2005. Walter becameCEO of Anglo American Brazil in 2006,a position he held until becoming CEOof Nickel in October 2009.Ruben FernandesMSc (Metallurgical Engineering), MBA47, was appointed CEO of Niobium andPhosphates in July 2012. Ruben washead of mining at Votorantim Metals inBrazil from 2011, in charge of projects,exploration activities around the worldand operations in Peru and Colombia.He was COO at Vale Fertilizers from2009, responsible for the fertiliseroperations, sales and marketing.Ruben was CEO of Kaolin Companies– Pará Pigments and Cadam – twosubsidiaries of Vale, from 2007, heldvarious analysis and marketing rolesin Vale’s Base Metals department from1999 and, prior to this, worked inVotorantim’s zinc business and atEletrometal Special Metals in Brazil.Seamus FrenchBEng (Chemical)50, is CEO of Metallurgical Coal. Hejoined WMC Resources in Australiain 1994, initially in a strategic planningand business development role andprogressed to various operationalmanagement roles, gaining extensiveexperience in the gold and nickelbusinesses before advancing to theposition of executive general managerCopper-Uranium division. Seamusjoined BHP Billiton as global vicepresident, business excellencefollowing its takeover of WMC in 2005.He was appointed regional CEO ofAnglo Coal Australia in 2007, bringingstrong skills in operations, safety andbusiness improvement to the role.Godfrey GomweBAcc, CA (Z), MBL57, was appointed CEO of Thermal Coalwith effect from 1 September 2012.Godfrey is also responsible forAnglo American’s manganese interests.He is a non-executive director of ThebeInvestment Corporation (Pty) Ltd. Untilhis appointment as CEO of ThermalCoal, he was a non-executive director ofAnglo American Platinum and KumbaIron Ore. Godfrey was previouslyfinance director and COO of AngloAmerican South Africa and chairmanand CEO of Anglo American Zimbabwe.Chris GriffithBEng (Mining) Hons, Pr Eng47, was appointed CEO of AngloAmerican Platinum Limited with effectfrom 1 September 2012. He waspreviously CEO of Kumba Iron Orefrom 2008. Prior to this he wasAnglo American Platinum’s head ofoperations for joint ventures. Chris hasbeen with Anglo American for morethan two decades.Khanyisile KweyamaBS Administration (USA), PDM,MM Human Resources47, was appointed executive director,Anglo American South Africa Limitedwith effect from 1 September 2012.Khanyisile formerly served on theexecutive committee of Platinum,during which time she enhanced HRprogrammes and significantly improvedrelations with unions and brought wagenegotiations to a successful conclusion.She gained corporate experience in anumber of international companies,including BMW, Altech and BarloworldLtd, holding executive rolesincorporating human resources,industrial relations, corporate affairs,stakeholder relations andtransformation.John MacKenzieMSc Eng, MBL44, is CEO of Copper. He joined theAnglo American Gold and UraniumDivision in 1990 and was promoted tovice president of Anglo Coal, SouthAmerican Operations in 1999. In 2004,he became general manager of theMinera Loma de Níquel operation inVenezuela. John was appointed CEO ofBase Metals’ zinc operations in 2006,and was appointed to his currentposition in 2009.Norman MbazimaFCCA, FZICA54, was appointed CEO of Kumba IronOre with effect from 1 September 2012.He joined Anglo American in 2001 atKonkola Copper Mines plc. He wassubsequently appointed global CFOfor Anglo Coal. He became executivedirector of finance at Anglo AmericanPlatinum in June 2006 and laterstepped in as joint acting CEO. Prior tothis, Norman was CEO of Scaw Metalsfrom May 2008 and later CEO ofThermal Coal from October 2009,a position he held until 2012.Philippe MellierMsc Eng, MBA57, was appointed CEO of De BeersGroup in July 2011. He began his careerin 1980 with the Ford Motor Company,where he occupied various seniormanagement positions over 19 years.In 1999 Philippe joined Renault asa senior vice president in charge ofEuropean sales, and was a memberof the management board. In 2001he moved to Volvo AB to becomechairman and CEO of Renault Trucks,and a member of the Volvo Groupexecutive committee. In 2003, Philippebecame president of Alstom Transportand was appointed executive vicepresident of Alstom Group a year later.Duncan WanbladBSc (Eng) Mech,GDE (Eng Management)46, is Group director, Other Miningand Industrial businesses. He began hiscareer at Johannesburg ConsolidatedInvestment Company Limited in 1990.He was appointed to the board ofAnglo American Platinum in 2004.Duncan was appointed joint interimCEO of Anglo American Platinum in2007, before taking over as CEO ofAnglo American’s copper operations in2008. He was appointed to his currentposition in October 2009.GovernanceAnglo American plc Annual Report 2012 95