PA Dunne (52) (British)

BSc (Hons); MBA

Chief executive officer

Joined the board in 2014.

Prior to joining Northam, Mr Dunne was employed by Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats) as executive director responsible for all mining, concentrating and smelting operations at Implats’ Rustenburg and Marula mines. Mr Dunne is also a director of Zambezi Platinum.

AZ Khumalo (50)

BCom; BCompt (Hons); CA (SA)

Chief financial officer

Joined the board in 2010.

Mr Khumalo, a chartered accountant by profession, has extensive mining and corporate finance experience. From September 2008 he was the group finance executive of Coal of Africa Limited. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2008, he was director: finance of Aquarius Platinum South Africa Proprietary Limited. Mr Khumalo is also a director of Zambezi Platinum.

ME Beckett (79) (British)

BSc (Geology); FIMM

Independent non-executive director

Joined the board in 1999.

Mr Beckett is non-executive chairman of Endeavour Mining Corporation, and a director of International Hotels Investment Limited and Petroamerica Oil Corporation. A geologist by training, Mr Beckett was formerly managing director of Consolidated Gold Fields plc.

Member of the audit and risk committee; the health, safety and environmental committee; and the social, ethics and human resources committee.

CK Chabedi (47)

BSc (Mining Engineering); MSc (Mining Engineering); MDP

Independent non-executive director

Joined the board in 2009.

Mr Chabedi has more than 20 years’ mining experience which includes having worked for Anglo American’s coal division in both their underground and surface mining operations for over 12 years. He currently lectures in the School of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Member of the health, safety and environmental committee; the investment committee; and the social, ethics and human resources committee.

R Havenstein (59)

MSc (Chemical Engineering); BCom

Independent non-executive director

Joined the board in 2003.

Mr Havenstein’s current non-executive directorships include Hernic Ferrochrome Proprietary Limited, Murray and Roberts Holdings Limited, Omnia Holdings Limited and Reatile Proprietary Limited. He was previously chief executive officer of Anglo American Platinum Limited, prior to which he was an executive director of Sasol Limited responsible for Sasol Chemical Industries.

Member of the audit and risk committee.

Chairman of the health, safety and environmental committee; the investment committee; and the nomination committee.

Lead independent director.

TE Kgosi (Ms) (61)

BCom (Hons)

Independent non-executive director

Joined the board in 2004.

Ms Kgosi is the cluster manager in Supply Chain Operations, Eskom Group Commercial. She has extensive experience in the banking sector mainly in a treasury operations environment, having held positions at a number of South Africa’s main banking groups as well as Credit Suisse First Boston (NY).

Member of the audit and risk committee; and the nomination committee.

Chairperson of the social, ethics and human resources committee.

AR Martin (77)

BCom; CA (SA)

Independent non-executive director

Joined the board in 2009.

Mr Martin is a director of Datacentrix Holdings Limited and Trans Hex Group Limited.

Chairman of the audit and risk committee.

Member of the investment committee; and the nomination committee.

KB Mosehla (43)

BCompt; CA (SA)

Non-executive director

Joined the board in 2015.

Mr Mosehla is the chief executive of Mosomo Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited, a director of Zambezi Platinum, Malundi Resources (RF) Proprietary Limited and Coal of Africa Limited.

Member of the investment committee; and the social, ethics and human resources committee.