Directors

Group directorate

Independent Non-executive directors

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 (appointed 13 April 2017)
Significant directorships: None

Experience:Former senior executive managing speciality chemical businesses on five 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.

Prof. Nick Binedell

Age: 64
Qualifications: BCom; MBA; PhD
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 24 February 2017
Board committee membership: None
Significant directorships: None

Experience: He is currently a professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). In 1998 he was appointed to establish GIBS where he was Director and Dean from 2000 – 2015. He was a board member of the International Management Board of the Association of MBAs (AMBA). He was the founding president of the Association of SA Business Schools (SABSA), where he served two terms.

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
Significant directorships: None

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

Tina Eboka

Age: 59
Qualifications: BSc; MBA
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 25 February 2016
Board committee membership: None
Significant directorships: Stefanutti Stocks Group, Richards Bay IDZ Board

Experience: She is currently group managing director of NTP Radiosotopes (SOC) Limited, the commercial subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC limited.

She was a board level strategy consultant in private and public banking, science/technology research, retail and manufacturing sectors for 24 years. She is a recognised business turnaround specialist who has served as executive committee director of Standard Bank South Africa Limited for five years where she established and led group corporate affairs, and was made responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, social investment and corporate strategy.

Ralph Havenstein

Age: 59
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, remuneration and nominations committee chairman (appointed 24 February 2017)
Significant directorships: Northam Platinum Limited, Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited

Experience: 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).

Linda De Beer

Age: 48
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (SA); Chartered Director (SA)
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 30 November 2017
Board committee membership: Audit committee chairperson
Significant directorships: Independent non-executive director on the boards of a number of JSE listed companies

Experience:She advises and trains on reporting and corporate governance to numerous corporates. Some of her current positions include, Chairman of the JSE’s Financial Reporting Investigations Panel, Member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, where she served on the King IV Task Team, and member of the JSE’s Issuers’ Regulatory Advisory Committee.

Sizwe Mncwango

Age: 52
Qualifications: BSc; MSc (Civ Eng); MBA
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 29 July 2010
Board committee membership: None
Significant directorships: Shell Downstream South Africa, Sekelo Oil Trading, Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa (STISA) Oil Trading, Safripol, Thebe Unico, Thebe Mining Resources, Timrite, Turnstone

Experience: He has served on numerous boards over the past 13 years and is the former CEO of Central Energy Fund. He has extensive experience in general management, deal structuring and turnaround strategies.

Thoko Mokgosi-Mwantembe

Age: 57
Qualifications: BSc; MSc (Medicinal Chemistry); MBA; Diploma
Designation: Independent non-executive director
Date appointed to board: 1 June 2018
Board committee membership: None
Significant directorships: Vodacom Group, Royal Bafokeng Platinum

Experience:Thoko holds a BSc and Teaching Diploma from Swaziland and a Master 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.

Non-executive directors

Rod Humphris

Age: 61
Qualifications: BSc (Chem Eng); BCom
Title: Non-executive chairman (appointed 1 June 2017)
Date appointed to board: 11 March 1999
Date of resignation: 31 May 2017 as managing director
Board committee memberships: Social, ethics and risk committee (appointed 1 June 2017) and remuneration and nominations committee (appointed 1 June 2017)
Significant directorships: Chairman of Chemical and Allied Industries' Association (CAIA)

Experience: After gaining experience in gold, uranium, flotation and sulphuric acid at Anglo-American's President Brand and Ergo mines, joined Omnia as project engineer in 1982. After occupying various positions within Omnia Group, appointed managing director of Omnia Fertilizer in 1995 and group managing director of Omnia Holdings Limited in 1999. He also served as president of Fertilizer Society of South Africa. Appointed to non-executive chairman of the Group on 1 June 2017.

Executive directors and company secretary

Adriaan Jacques de Lange

Age: 42
Qualifications: B Compt (Hons) CTA; 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:He 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.

Wayne Koonin

Age: 48
Qualifications: B.Com; B.Acc; Chartered Accountant (SA)
Title: Group finance director
Date appointed to board: 1 August 2014
Significant directorships: None

Experience:He has extensive international experience at CFO/Financial director level, having worked for various Canadian, British, Swiss and South African mining companies with listings on the AIM, ASX, JSE, NASDAQ and TSX exchanges. This provided him with exposure to various international regulatory issues, reporting standards and transactions. Finalist in the 2016 and 2017 Chief Financial Officer (CFO) South Africa Awards and winner of the Finance and Technology category 2017.