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.

Nombasa has more than 18 years’ executive management and board experience in the public and private sectors. In 2003, she joined Kumba as general manager: safety, health and environment. In 2007, she was appointed executive general manager: safety and sustainable development. In 2010, she became directly involved with the management of coal operations as general manager of captive mines and general manager of Mpumalanga operations. In 2015, she was appointed acting executive head of coal operations and executive head of coal operations in 2016. She is the 2017 winner of the Standard Bank Business Woman of the Year Award and the 2018 winner of the Pan African Awards Africa’s most influential woman in business and government mining industry category. An avid long-distance runner, Nombasa has completed nine Comrades marathons.

Vanisha is a registered industrial psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience in the mining industry. She joined Iscor Mining in 1997 as a human resources graduate trainee. She was later employed at Kumba as a human resources business partner and within talent management from 1998 to 2006. She has since been appointed by Exxaro as manager of the talent management and staffing centre of expertise, manager of corporate projects and human resources optimisation, and group manager of talent and learning. She is chairperson of Exxaro’s women in mining committee and serves on various other Exxaro subsidiary companies. She is passionate about education and women empowerment as well as integrating work and quality family time.

Alex has a mechanical engineering background with mining experience across a range of commodities. In his early career, he worked at several platinum and gold mines in South Africa and Australia. He moved into strategy consulting for 13 years, working on large-scale strategy, transformation and innovation projects in a range of companies. Alex joined Exxaro in 2018 and currently leads strategy and business transformation. He is passionate about innovation and learning, following new technology and leadership trends, keeping fit and spending time with his family.

In the early 1980s, Mongezi worked for AngloGold at Western Deep Levels. He joined Sasol Mining in 1994. In 2002, he became mine manager at Arnot and was appointed general manager of Area 2 at Exxaro soon after the merger. In 2010, he was appointed general manager: safety, health, environment and community. In 2012, he was elected president of the South African Colliery Managers’ Association. Mongezi assumed his current role at Exxaro in 2015.

Johan started his career in production management at Iscor’s Pretoria steel works. He worked at KZN Sands, headed research and development at Kumba, as part of the leadership team at Mineral Sands (Tronox), BU manager of Zincor and Exxaro corporate office. His current role focuses on delivering coal growth projects of approximately R20 billion and developing integrated Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve LoM plans. He is passionate about leading people and powering better lives in Africa and beyond.

Mzila is a mining engineer with combined experience in mining and investment banking of 20 years. This includes seven years in deep-level gold mining at AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields in senior mine management and corporate development roles as well as six years in investment banking at Rand Merchant Bank and Deutsche Bank. His knowledge of business sustainability was honed over six years as executive: business sustainability at Royal Bafokeng Holdings and Royal Bafokeng Platinum. He assumed his current role in May 2013. Mzila also serves as the 2019/2020 president of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Wim started his career as an Iscor bursar from 1986 to 1990. He was engineer in training at Thabazimbi in 1992. He went on to Durnacol, Tshikondeni, Sishen, Rosh Pinah, Kumba head office and returned to Thabazimbi. Since Exxaro’s formation, he has held senior leadership positions at KZN Sands, Grootegeluk, Mpumalanga coal commercial region and corporate office. Wim was seconded to Exxaro’s divestment project team on a full-time basis in 2020.

Saret joined KPMG in 2002, advising clients on the legal aspects of information security, privacy and data protection. As senior manager of the regulatory and compliance services team, she advised clients on compliance programmes and reviews as part of internal and external audit. She joined Exxaro in 2008 as assistant company secretary and became manager: risk and compliance in 2012. Saret is a fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa (formerly Chartered Secretaries Southern Africa) and a member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management.