Jeffrey is a director of various companies in the Uranus group, non-executive director Pick n Pay Stores. He is a former chairperson of the Financial Reporting Standards Council, a former trustee of the International Accounting Standards Foundation and member of the University of Pretoria’s faculty of economic and management sciences’ oversight board. He was a partner at Deloitte, chairperson of the Public Accountants and Auditors Board, CEO of the Financial Services Board and adviser to the former Minister of Public Enterprises during the Mandela administration. Jeffrey is a founder member and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of South Africa.

At Eyesizwe Coal, Mxolisi was responsible for marketing and logistics. After Exxaro’s formation, he managed the base metals and industrial minerals commodity business before he was appointed head of coal operations from August 2008. Mxolisi was appointed CEO designate on 1 May 2015 and CEO on 1 April 2016. He is a director of Tronox, Talent10 Holdings and Dynamo Investment Holdings. He was elected president of the Chamber of Mines (now Minerals Council) on 24 May 2017.

Riaan started his career with Coopers and Lybrand. After completing his articles, he branched into the fields of treasury, investment management and corporate finance. He held various senior management positions at Iscor, Kumba and Exxaro until his appointment as FD of Exxaro in 2016. He is a director of several Exxaro subsidiary companies and joint ventures. He is a trustee and investment committee member of the Exxaro pension and provident funds. Riaan is also a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers of Southern Africa.

Geraldine was appointed special envoy on gender at the African Development Bank (AfDB) from 2013 to 2016. She served as director of the UN Development Programme Democratic Governance Group from 2009 to 2019. She also served as a member of the South African Parliament for three consecutive parliaments (1994 to 2008). She was Minister of Public Service and Administration for two consecutive terms (1999 to 2008). Geraldine served as Minister of Welfare and Population Development (1996 to 1999) after her term as Deputy Minister of Welfare and Population Development. During her tenure as Minister for Public Service, she was chairperson of the Pan African Ministers of Public Service for three consecutive terms. Geraldine serves on various boards across academia: she is the chancellor of Nelson Mandela University, chairperson of the Advisory Council of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, chairperson of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration (an expert body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council) and former member of the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University in Canada. She served on the Africa Advisory Committee of Women’s World Banking until 2018. She is also a non-executive board member of the Standard Bank group and Standard Bank South Africa. She was recently appointed chairperson of the Tiger Brands group.

Likhapha currently coaches National Movement of Rural Women coordinators in development methods and systems, project preparation, finance and management. She also supervises, monitors and evaluates small and medium development projects. She understands that poverty, inadequate education, nutrition, poor health, government policies and the exploitative nature of humans are uncontrollable variables that can lead to poverty. She focuses on development as an opportunity for affected individuals to lead equal and satisfactory lives within their communities despite their circumstances.

Zwelibanzi is executive chairperson of Moabi Capital. He was a senior lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, executive director of the Institute of Mine Surveyors of Southern Africa, director-general of Gauteng and chairperson of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. He is chairperson of Main Street 333, a director of Eyesizwe Holdings and Eyesizwe Mining, and a trustee of the Palaeo-Anthropology Scientific Trust.

Mark has more than five years of public company board exposure and over 25 years of financial and commercial experience in the mining industry with leading global companies. He has worked in diamond, thermal coal, ferrochrome and platinum group metals mining. He understands the South African mining landscape and its strategic imperatives going forward. He has held senior financial positions (operational and corporate) in various countries with Anglo American, De Beers, Xstrata Alloys (as chief financial officer) and Xstrata (as group controller). He served as chairperson of Fraser Alexander until March 2018. Mark currently serves as an independent non-executive director and audit committee member on the board of Royal Bafokeng Platinum.

Isaac is a co-founder, shareholder and director of the Randvest group with core focus on leveraged acquisitions and strategic investments mainly in technology companies. He is chairperson of Bothomed, which is currently a shareholder with the Public Investment Corporation in Dis-Chem Pharmacies. He is also a member of the Black Management Forum, the Electronics Industries Federation of South Africa, the Black IT Forum and non-executive deputy chairperson of the Catholic Education Investment Company.

From 1982 to 1996, Ras held various operational and executive positions in operating, maintenance, engineering and power station management at Eskom. In 1997, he joined Iscor Mining where he led company-wide cost improvement, business re-engineering, transformation and empowerment projects. He was appointed managing director of Kumba’s coal business in 2000 and headed the transformation unit in 2003 (project management of the empowerment transaction and unbundling of the company into Exxaro and Kumba Iron Ore). He was appointed as the first CEO of Kumba Iron Ore in 2006. Following the 2008 electricity crisis, Ras was seconded to Eskom to develop and implement a long-term coal supply strategy. In 2011, he co-founded Hindsight Financial and Commercial Solutions, a boutique corporate professional advisory firm, providing business development, specialist commercial solutions, and strategy and business improvement advisory services to the resources, energy and industrial sectors. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in South Africa and serves on the international advisory board of Unashamedly Ethical.

Vuyisa has over 20 years’ experience in investment banking and private equity. He served his training contract as a chartered accountant with PwC and joined Deutsche Bank in 1997 where he gained investment banking experience, primarily in corporate and project finance advisory work over four years. He serves on the boards of Emira Property Fund and Momentum Metropolitan Holdings. He served as financial director of Worldwide African Investment Holdings and a director of Actis in its BEE funding unit. He was appointed CEO of Kagiso Tiso Holdings in 2012 and resigned in December 2017.

Anuradha is a non-executive director and member of the credit and investment, and audit and risk committees of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. She was a non-executive director of MTN South Sudan and MTN Guinea Bissau. She is currently group executive director of the MTN business intelligence competency centre.

Peet has 40 years’ experience in the mining industry, including employment at Sasol, Anglo American, Iscor, Kumba, Anglo American Platinum, Riversdale Holdings, Continental Coal, Keaton Energy, Sable Mining Africa, Mmakau Mining and, most recently, Submex Investments. He also has over 10 years of board experience within the industry.