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Nicholas J Holland (50)* |
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Kofi Ansah (65)° |
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Mr Wright was appointed the Non-Executive
Chairman of the Board on 17 November
2005. Prior to that, Mr Wright had been
Deputy Chairman of Gold Fields since
November 1997. Prior to September 1998,
Mr Wright was the Chief Executive Officer of
Gold Fields of South Africa Limited. Mr Wright
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BComm, BAcc, Witwatersrand; CA(SA)
Mr Holland has been a Director of Gold
Fields since 14 April 1998 and became Chief
Executive Officer on 1 May 2008. He served
as Executive Director of Finance from April
1998. On 15 April 2002, his title changed
to Chief Financial Officer until 30 April 2008.
Prior to joining Gold Fields, he was Financial
Director and Senior Manager of Corporate
Finance of Gencor Limited. He is also an
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BSc (Mech Eng) UST Ghana; MSc (Metallurgy)
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Mr Ansah was appointed a Director in April
2004. He is a Director of Ecobank (Ghana)
Limited and Aluworks Limited. |
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Richard (Rick) P Menell
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David N Murray (64)° |
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Trinity College, Cambridge, UK; MSc.
(Mineral Exploration and Management)
Stanford University, California, USA
Mr Menell was appointed a Director of
Gold Fields on 8 October 2008. Previously,
he has been the President and Member
of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa,
President and Chief Executive Officer of
TEAL Exploration & Mining Inc and Executive
Chairman of Anglovaal Mining Limited and
Avgold Limited. He is a Director of Weir Group
Plc and various other companies. |
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15 February 2006. Previous experience
includes being a Director and Head of
the Mergers and Acquisitions division at
Ernst & Young Corporate Finance. He was
an Executive Director of Gold Fields of
South Africa Limited from January 1992 to
September 1998. Mr Hopwood is a member
of the Board of Trustees of the New Africa
Mining Fund and Chairman of the Fund’s
Investment Committee, and Non-executive
Director of Pan African Resources Plc. |
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Mr Murray joined the Board on 1 January
2008. He has more than 36 years’ experience
in the mining industry and has been Chief
Executive Officer of Rio Tinto Portugal, Rio
Tinto Brazil, TVX Gold INC, Avgold Limited
and Avmin Limited. He is a Non-Executive
Director of Ivernia Inc. |
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| Cheryl A Carolus (49)° |
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Roberto Dañino (58)° |
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Alan Hill (66)° |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
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University, UK |
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10 March 2009. Ms Carolus joined the
United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983. She
was National Co-ordinator of the UDF from
1985 to 1990. In May 1990, Ms Carolus was
elected to be part of the African National
Congress (ANC) delegation which held talks
with the apartheid government, and in July
1991, she was elected to the ANC’s National
Executive Committee. From 1994 to 1997
she was Deputy Secretary General of the
ANC and from 1997 to 1998 acting Secretary
General. In 1998, she became South Africa’s
High Commissioner to London. Between
2001 and 2004, she was the Chief Executive
Officer of SA Tourism (SATOUR). She served
as chairperson of the South African National
Parks Board for six years. She is also
Executive Chairperson of Peotona Holdings,
an investment company that deals with
business development. |
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Mr Dañino was appointed a Director on
10 March 2009. He serves on various
corporate and non-profit boards, both in
Peru and USA, including Gold Fields La Cima
in Peru. Mr Dañino is a Peruvian lawyer who
has practised for over 30 years as a partner
of leading law firms in Lima and Washington,
DC. He has significant experience throughout
Latin America, as well as in the USA and
the UK. Mr Dañino has served as Prime
Minister of Peru and Ambassador to the
USA. He has been Vice President and
General Counsel of the International Centre
for settlement of Investment Disputes. He
was also the founding General Counsel of
the Inter-American Investment Corporation in
Washington, DC, the private sector affiliate of
Inter-American Development Bank. |
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Mr Hill was appointed a Director of Gold
Fields on 21 August 2009. He also serves
on the board of Gabriel Resources and until
recently was Chairman of Alamos Gold. Both
companies are involved in gold exploration and
development. Mr Hill’s mining career started
on the Zambian Copperbelt, following which
he joined Noranda where he managed gold
and nickel mines. He worked as a consultant
for a short period, before joining Camflow Mines
in 1981, which merged with Barrick Gold
in 1984. Mr Hill joined Barrick as part of the
merger and spent 19 years with Barrick and
was instrumental in its considerable growth,
having played a pivotal role in its various
merger and acquisition initiatives through the
years. He retired from Barrick in 2003 as its
Executive Vice President: Development. Some
of his previous directorships include Yamana
Resources, Peru Copper and the Canadian
Council of the Americas. |
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Rupert L Pennant-Rea
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Chris I von Christierson
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Hare University; Post Graduate Diploma in
Labour Relations, Strathclyde University,
Scotland; Graduate MSc Manpower Studies,
University of Manchester; Diploma in Financial
Management
Mr Ncube was appointed a Director of Gold
Fields on 15 February 2006. Previously, he
was an Alternate Director of Anglo American
Industrial Corporation Limited and Anglo
American Corporation of South Africa Limited,
a Director of AngloGold Ashanti Limited as
well as Non-Executive Chairman of South
African Airways. He is currently Chairman of
Rare Holdings Limited, Chairman of Badimo
Gas, Executive Director of Cincinnati Mining
S.A., a Director of Manhattan Operations
Douglas, and he serves on the boards of
various other companies. |
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BA, Trinity College Dublin; MA, University of
Manchester
Mr Pennant-Rea has been a Director of Gold
Fields since 1 July 2002. He is Chairman of
Henderson Group Plc and is a Director of
First Quantum Minerals, Go-Ahead Group,
Times Newspaper Limited and a number of
other companies. Previously he was Editor of
The Economist and Deputy Governor of the
Bank of England. |
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Mr von Christierson has been a Director of
Gold Fields since 10 May 1999. As a result
of a takeover by Lundin Mining he stepped
down as the Chairman of Rio Narcea Gold
Mines Limited on 18 July 2007. He is
currently a Director of Southern Prospecting
(UK) Limited and Non-executive Director of
Platmin Limited. |
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| Mrs Wilson was appointed a Director on
1 August 2008. She was previously an audit
partner at Ernst & Young for 16 years where
her main focus was on mining clients. In
1998 she was involved in AngloGold Ashanti
Limited’s listing on the NYSE and in 2001 she
took over as the lead partner on the global
audit. Other mining clients during her career
include Northam, Aquarius, Avmin (now ARM)
and certain Anglo Platinum operations. She
is a Non-Executive Director of Witwatersrand
Consolidated Gold Resources Limited. |
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