Appointed a director and chief executive in June 2008.

Neville joined Anglo American Corporation in January 1979, working in the Gold and Uranium Division at different managerial levels in all the major operating areas in South Africa. In 2000 and 2001 he was the technical director of AngloGold’s South American operations in Brazil. He became the chief operating officer (Africa) of AngloGold Ashanti in 2005 and the chief operating officer of AngloGold Ashanti in August 2007. Neville was appointed chief executive officer of Anglo American Platinum Limited in June 2008. He is a non-executive director of Anglo American South Africa and was appointed to the Executive Committee of Anglo American plc in 2009. He is a director of subsidiaries of the Anglo American Platinum Limited Group. He was appointed as a vice-president of the Chamber of Mines in November 2010.

Pieter was appointed executive head: mining at Anglo American Platinum Limited (Amplats) on 1 September 2007. He is an experienced engineer, manager and director in the mining field, having served in various capacities in the gold, iron ore, coal and base metals industries. These have involved both surface and underground mining operations in South Africa, Zambia and South America.

Ben has 20 years’ experience in the mining and energy industries and has been part of the Anglo American Group of companies for the past 16 years. In 2006, he was appointed chief executive officer of Anglo Coal South Africa. He joined Anglo American Platinum Limited as executive head: engineering and projects in November 2009.

Mary-Jane Morifi was appointed executive head: corporate affairs at Amplats and a member of the Amplats Management Services Board on 1 November 2007. She joined Amplats from BP International in London, where she was director of audit, marketing (group internal audit) from 2003.

July was previously employed by Anglo American subsidiaries in Zimbabwe, where he held senior managerial positions in metallurgical operations and technical services. He transferred to Anglo American Platinum Limited in 2001, was appointed business manager of Polokwane Smelter, and was later appointed as head: process technology. He was appointed executive head: process in September 2007.

Appointed a director in January 2009.

Bongani joined Anglo American Platinum Limited as finance director in January 2009. He is the former finance director of Eskom Holdings Limited. Prior to joining Eskom, he served as treasurer and chief financial officer of Shell Southern Africa. Bongani is currently a non-executive director of Old Mutual plc and chairman of the South African Revenue Service Audit Committee. He trained as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Appointed subsequent to 31 December 2010.

Vishnu joined Amplats in January 2011 and will assume the position of executive head: joint ventures. Before joining Anglo American Platinum Limited, he was executive vice-president, South Africa region, of Goldfields Exploration Inc. He was previously vice-president and head of operations at Driefontein from 2006, and prior to that was senior consultant, mineral resources and mine planning. His 25 years at Goldfields were interrupted by a brief period with the CSIR where he was director of mining technology and group executive for institutional planning and operations.

Sandy started at Anglo American Corporation in 1975 and did metallurgical work at Western Deep Levels Gold Mine, De Beers Diamonds, SA Coal Estates and Free State Geduld Gold Mines. In 1981 he joined Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI) Limited, where he held several senior positions in the platinum, coal and base metal divisions, including chief executive officer of Consolidated Metallurgical Industries, chief operations officer of JCI Limited (Non-Gold) and board member. Sandy joined Amplats in May 2001 as a member of the Board and as executive director: commercial, and remained a board member until October 2007. He is currently executive head: commercial and a director of subsidiaries of the Amplats Group.

Doug was appointed company secretary of Anglo American Platinum Limited in 2010 and is also company secretary of Anglo American South Africa Limited. Doug has worked as a company secretary within the Anglo American Group for the past 36 years. His department is responsible for corporate law statutory and regulatory compliance and for corporate governance.