ArcelorMittal South Africa
Annual Report 2009Board of directors
Johnson Njeke (51)
Independent non-executive Chairman
BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax Law
Appointed independent non-executive director on 1 January 2002. Appointed
Chairman of the Board on 4 February 2010 and Chairman of the Nominations
Committee. Chairman of the Audit Committee until 4 February 2010.
Chairman of Metropolitan Holdings Limited and Deputy Chairman of Kagiso
Media. Director of numerous companies including Resilient Property Income
Fund Limited, MTN Group Limited, Barloworld Limited and Sasol Limited.
Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita (50)
Chief Executive Officer
BSc (Hons)(Elec Eng), MSc (Elec Eng), MBA
Appointed as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the
board on 1 March 2008. Member of Safety, Health and Environment
and Transformation Committees. Non-executive Chairman of Arivia.kom
(Proprietary) Limited. Non-executive director of JSE Limited,
Kalagadi Manganese and Macsteel International Holdings BV.
Malcolm Macdonald (67)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, CA(SA)
Appointed independent non-executive director on 4 February 2010.
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Safety, Healthand
Environment Committee. Previously the Financial Director of Iscor
Limited between 1997 and 2004. Director and Chairperson of Audit
Committees on the Boards of Astral Foods Limited, GijimaAST Limited
and Coris Capital Limited.
Eric Diack (52)
Independent non-executive director
BAcc, CA(SA), AMP (Harvard), AMP (UCT)
Appointed independent non-executive director on 16 March 2007.
Chairperson of the Risk Commitee until 31 December 2009.
Appointed Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee on 4 February 2010.
Non-executive director of Adcock Ingram Holdings. Previously Chief Executive
Officer of Anglo American Ferrous Metals & Industries division. Previously
served on the boards of a number of major listed and unlisted companies.
Thandi Orleyn (54)
Independent non-executive director
BJuris; BProc LLB
Appointed independent non-executive director on 1 February 2007.
Appointed Chairman of the Transformation Committee on 4 February
2010. Also chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a memberof
the Nominations Committee. Director of the South African Reserve
Bank, Impala Platinum Holdings Limited, Toyota SA, Reunert Limited,
FreeWorld Coatings Limited and Ceramic Industries Limited. Director
and shareholder of Peotana Group Holdings.
Chris Murray (65)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, CA(SA), MBL
Appointed independent non-executive director on 11 May 2007.
Chairman of the Safety, Health and Environment Committee. Previously Chief
Managing Director of Haggie Group of Companies.
Since retirement from Haggie in 2004, has acted for the Steel and
Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA an Employers
association) in a number of capacities. A member of the executive
committee of SEIFSA.