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Board committees

Audit committee

Linda De Beer

Age: 49
Qualifications: Chartered Director (SA); Chartered Accountant (SA); MCOM Tax (Pretoria),
Professor (UJ)
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date of appointment: 30 November 2017 - Board
: 30 November 2017 - Audit committee
Board committee membership: Audit committee (chairman)
Significant directorships: Aspen Finance, Royal Bafokeng Platinum, Safin Holdings, Sasfin Bank
Number of non-significant directorships: 1

Experience:Linda is a reporting and corporate governance advisor. She also serves as chair of the JSE’s Financial Reporting Investigations Panel, member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa (served on the King IV Task Team) and JSE’s Issuers’ Regulatory Advisory Committee.

Thanaseelan Gobalsamy (Seelan)

Age: 42
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (SA) AMP (Harvard)
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date of appointment: 10 September 2018 - Board
: 10 September 2018 - Audit committee
Board Committee membership: Audit committee
Significant directorships: Bidvest Life Limited
Number of non-significant directorships: 2

Skills and expertise: Finance, business management, strategy, mergers and acquisitions.

Experience:He is an accomplished, internationally experienced business leader, from the financial services sector. He has assumed senior leadership roles across Emerging Markets for close to 20 years including key leadership roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director. He served as Chief Executive of Emerging Markets for Liberty Holdings and previously the Group Chief Executive of STANLIB Group.

Prior to this he was Managing Director of Old Mutual Corporate.

Ronald Clifford Bowen

Age: 66
Qualifications: BSc (Hons)
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 28 September 2011
Board committee membership: Audit committee
Significant directorships: None

Skills and expertise: Business management, strategy, global & local governance, Chemicals industry

Experience: Former senior executive, managing speciality chemical businesses on 5 continents for Süd-Chemie AG, Germany for 30 years. He also worked for Ashland Chemicals Inc. of the United States. He has served on several boards, both locally and internationally, as managing director, executive director and chairman with joint-venture shareholders such as Sasol Limited, the Industrial Development Corporation, Central Energy Fund (CEF) Limited and PetroSA. He is a council member of a large global marketing consultancy.

Remuneration and nominations committee

Thoko Mokgosi-Mwantembe

Age: 57
Qualifications: BSc; MSc (Medicinal Chemistry); Teaching Diploma
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date of appointment: 1 June 2018 - Board
: 1 August 2018 - Remuneration committee and nominations committee
Board Committee membership: Remuneration and nominations committee
Significant other directorships: Vodacom Group, Royal Bafokeng Platinum, Old Mutual
Number of non-significant directorships: 8

Skills and expertise: Business management, chemistry, information systems, strategy

Experience:Thoko holds a BSc and Teaching Diploma from Swaziland and a master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry from Loughborough University in the UK. She serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of a number of JSE listed companies. In 2005 she was named finalist for IT Personality, winner of Top ICT Individual and winner of Top ICT Businesswoman in Africa. In 2007, she was named the Businesswoman of the year in the Corporate Category.

Rod Humphris

Age: 61
Qualifications: BSc (Chem Eng); BCom
Title: Non-executive chairman (appointed 1 June 2017)
Date appointed to board: 11 March 1999 as executive managing director
Date of resignation: 31 May 2017 as managing director
Board committee memberships: Remuneration and nominations committee and Social, ethics and risk committee
Significant directorships: Chairman of Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association (CAIA)
Number of non-significant directorships: None

Skills and expertise: Business management, strategy, engineering, financial, chemical industry, risk management

Experience: After an initial period in the gold mining industry, Rod joined Omnia as a project engineer in 1982. After occupying various positions within the Omnia Group, he was appointed as the managing director of Omnia Fertilizer in 1995 and Group managing director of Omnia Holdings Limited in 1999. Appointed as non-independent, non-executive chairman of the Group on 1 June 2017. He also served the president of the Fertilizer Society of South Africa.

Ralph Havenstein

Age: 60
Qualifications: BCom; MSc (Chem Eng)
Designation: Lead independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 6 November 2007
Board committee memberships: Social, ethics and risk committee and Remuneration and nominations committee (chairman)
Significant directorships: Northam Platinum Limited, Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited
Number of non-significant directorships: 6

Skills and expertise: Engineering, governance, risk management, strategy, chemicals and mining industry

Experience: Previously served as director of Anglo Platinum, Simmer and Jack, Mintek and Sasol and on councils of Chamber of Mines and Chemical and Allied Industries' Association (CAIA).

Social, ethics and risk committee

Frank Desmond Butler

Age: 65
Qualifications: BSc (Chem Eng); MBA
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 27 September 2002
Board committee memberships: Social, ethics and risk committee chairman and audit committee (resigned 20 March 2017)
Significant directorships: None

Skills and expertise: Risk management, strategy and chemical industry

Experience: Frank is a private consultant in risk management and business strategies, previously a professional engineer fellow of IRMSA, he has occupied senior positions, including chairman of CRM International from 1980 to 2001.

Rod Humphris

Age: 61
Qualifications: BSc (Chem Eng); BCom
Title: Non-executive chairman (appointed 1 June 2017)
Date appointed to board: 11 March 1999 as executive managing director
Date of resignation: 31 May 2017 as managing director
Board committee memberships: Remuneration and nominations committee and Social, ethics and risk committee
Significant directorships: Chairman of Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association (CAIA)
Number of non-significant directorships: None

Skills and expertise: Business management, strategy, engineering, financial, chemical industry, risk management

Ralph Havenstein

Age: 60
Qualifications: BCom; MSc (Chem Eng)
Designation: Lead independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 6 November 2007
Board committee memberships: Social, ethics and risk committee and Remuneration and nominations committee (chairman)
Significant directorships: Northam Platinum Limited, Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited
Number of non-significant directorships: 6

Skills and expertise: Engineering, governance, risk management, strategy, chemicals and mining industry

Experience: Previosly served as director of Anglo Platinum, Simmer and Jack, Mintek and Sasol and on councils of Chamber of Mines and Chemical and Allied Industries' Association (CAIA).

Adriaan de Lange

Age: 42
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (SA)
Designation: Group managing director
Date appointed to board: 1 June 2017
Board committee memberships: Social, ethics and risk committee
Significant directorships: None

Experience: Adriaan joined the Group in 2003 as financial controller for BME and was promoted to financial manager, where he played an important part in developing and implementing the Mining division’s business strategy. In 2007, he was transferred to Omnia Fertilizer as financial manager and was soon thereafter promoted to financial director of Omnia Fertilizer. He thereafter held various positions in Omnia Fertilizer, including the position of director: Supply Chain, before he was appointed as managing director of Omnia Fertilizer: RSA in 2012. He was appointed as Group managing director with effect from 1 June 2017.