About
Directors & Management
Leigh Alan Wilson
Chairman and Director
Leigh Alan Wilson
Chairman and Director
Member of Governance, Compensation, Nomination, Strategic Planning and Disclosure Committees
Mr. Leigh Alan Wilson has an international business and financial services background having served in senior executive and management positions with Union Bank of Switzerland (Securities) Ltd. in London and with the Paribas Group in Paris and New York where he served as CEO of Paribas North America between 1984 and 1990.
Mr. Wilson has served on the Victory Fund Board since 1993 and currently serves as Independent Chairman of its Board of Trustees.
Mr Wilson is also the Chief Executive Officer of New Century Home Health Care Inc., a role he has held since 1995. In March 2006, Mr. Wilson received the Mutual Fund Trustee of the Year Award from Institutional Investor Magazine.
Between March 2008 and October 2008, Mr. Wilson was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Caledonia.
Mr. Wilson was re-appointed to the Caledonia board as an independent non-executive director in May 2012 and was appointed Chairman in May 2013.
Steve Curtis
Chief Executive Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited) and Director
Steve Curtis
Chief Executive Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited) and Director
Member of Strategic Planning, Technical and Disclosure Committees
Mr. Curtis is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience and has held a number of senior financial positions in the manufacturing industry. Before joining Caledonia in March 2006, he was Director Finance and Supply Chain for Avery Dennison SA and prior to this Financial Director and then Managing Director of Jackstadt GmbH South African operation. Mr. Curtis is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and graduated from the University of Cape Town. He was appointed to the Caledonia board in July 2008.
Steve was appointed Caledonia’s Chief Executive Officer in November 2014, prior to which he was Caledonia’s Chief Financial Officer.
Mark Learmonth
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Mark Learmonth
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Member of Strategic Planning and Disclosure Committees
Mr Learmonth joined Caledonia in July 2008. Prior to this, he was a Division Director of Investment Banking at Macquarie First South in South Africa, and has over 17 years’ experience in corporate finance and investment banking, predominantly in the resources sector in Africa.
Mr Learmonth graduated from Oxford University and is a chartered accountant. Mr Learmonth is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Mines, Zimbabwe. Mr Learmonth was appointed Caledonia’s Chief Financal Officer in November 2014.
Johan Andries Holtzhausen
Director
Johan Andries Holtzhausen
Director
Member of Audit, Compensation, Nomination, Strategic Planning, Technical and Disclosure Committees; Chairman of the Audit Committee
Mr. Johan Andries Holtzhausen is a retired partner of KPMG South Africa with 42 years of audit experience, of which 36 years were as a partner focused on the mining sector. Mr Holtzhausen chaired the Mining Interest Group at KPMG South Africa and his clients included major listed mining companies operating in Africa and elsewhere, which operated across a broad range of commodities. In addition to his professional qualifications, Mr Holtzhausen holds a B.Sc. from the University of Stellenbosch, majoring in chemistry and geology.
Mr Holtzhausen is chairman of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committees of Strategic Partners in Tourism and its related party the Tourism Micro Enterprises Support Fund, both of which are not-for-profit organizations. Until 28 February 2011, Mr Holtzhausen served as a director of KPMG Inc. and KPMG Services (Pty) Ltd, both of which are private companies registered in South Africa and which provided audit, taxation and advisory services. My. Holtzhausen is also a non executive director of DRDGOLD Ltd. a medium sized South African gold producer listed in on the Johannesburg and New York Stock Exchanges.
John McGloin
Director
John McGloin
Director
Member of Audit, Governance, Nomination, Strategic Planning and Technical Committees
John McGloin is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of Amara Mining and is currently a Non-executive director of Perseus Mining. Mr McGloin joined Caledonia in August 2016, he is a geologist and graduate of Camborne School of Mines.
Mr McGloin worked for many years in Africa within the mining industry before moving into consultancy. He joined Arbuthnot Banking Group following four years at Evolution Securities as their mining analyst.
He is also the former Head of Mining at Collins Stewart.
John Lawson Kelly
Director
John Lawson Kelly
Director
Member of Audit, Governance, Compensation, Strategic Planning and Disclosure Committees
Mr. John Lawson Kelly has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry in the U.S.A and international markets including emerging markets in Asia. He has held executive management positions in globally active, full-service financial firms as well as technology-enabled financial services.
Mr Kelly was appointed to the Caledonia board as an independent non-executive director in May 2012.
Nick Clarke
Director
Nick Clarke
Director
Member of Nomination, Technical and Strategic Planning Committees
Nick has over 45 years of mining experience, including 16 years spent within senior management positions in production and technical services in South Africa, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. He was Managing Director at Wardell Armstrong International, where he managed numerous multidisciplinary consulting projects in the resource sector. Nick served as Managing Director of Oriel Resources until its acquisition by OAO Mechel for $1.5 billion in 2008. He is a graduate of Camborne School of Mines and a Chartered Engineer. In 2013, Nick was named CEO of the year at the Mining Journal outstanding achievements awards. He joined Central Asia Metals Plc in 2009 as Chief Executive Officer prior to the company’s IPO in 2010, and assumed the role of Chairman in June 2016. He was appointed as a non-executive director of Caledonia in September 2019.
Geralda Wildschutt
Director
Geralda Wildschutt
Director
Member of Nomination, Corporate Governance and Strategic Planning Committees
Geralda has over 25 years’ experience in Stakeholder Engagement, Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Development and Social Performance across Mining, Renewable Energy, Banking and the Social Sector. She has worked across Africa, Latin America, Australia and Canada.
In Mining, she has been a consultant to Anglo American, Gold Fields, Ivanhoe Mines and South32 on a range of ESG topics. She held senior positions at Anglo American, Gold Fields, Absa/Barclays Group and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Geralda holds a Masters’ Degree in Psychology from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from the Business School of the Netherlands and a post-graduate Certificate in Cross-sector Partnerships from Cambridge University.
Steve Curtis
Chief Executive Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited) and Director
Steve Curtis
Chief Executive Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited) and Director
Member of Strategic Planning, Technical and Disclosure Committees
Mr. Curtis is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience and has held a number of senior financial positions in the manufacturing industry. Before joining Caledonia in March 2006, he was Director Finance and Supply Chain for Avery Dennison SA and prior to this Financial Director and then Managing Director of Jackstadt GmbH South African operation. Mr. Curtis is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and graduated from the University of Cape Town. He was appointed to the Caledonia board in July 2008.
Steve was appointed Caledonia’s Chief Executive Officer in November 2014, prior to which he was Caledonia’s Chief Financial Officer.
Mark Learmonth
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Mark Learmonth
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Member of Strategic Planning and Disclosure Committees
Mr Learmonth joined Caledonia in July 2008. Prior to this, he was a Division Director of Investment Banking at Macquarie First South in South Africa, and has over 17 years’ experience in corporate finance and investment banking, predominantly in the resources sector in Africa.
Mr Learmonth graduated from Oxford University and is a chartered accountant. Mr Learmonth is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Mines, Zimbabwe. Mr Learmonth was appointed Caledonia’s Chief Financal Officer in November 2014.
Dana Roets B.Sc.
Chief Operating Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited)
Dana Roets B.Sc.
Chief Operating Officer (Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited)
Dana Roets is a qualified Mining Engineer and holds a B.Sc. Mining Engineering degree from Pretoria University (1986) and an MBA from the University of Cape Town (1995). Mr Roets is a South African national with over 26 years of operational and managerial experience in the South African gold and platinum industry.
He started his career with Gold Fields at the St Helena Gold Mine as a graduate trainee and progressed via various operational roles from being an underground shift boss to become Vice President and Head of Operations at Kloof Gold Mine in January 1999 at which time Kloof produced over 1,000,000 ounces of gold per annum. More recently, Mr Roets was the COO at Great Basin Gold which had gold mining operations in the United States of America and South Africa.
Caxton Mangezi
General Manager and Director, Blanket Mine
Caxton Mangezi
General Manager and Director, Blanket Mine
Mr Mangezi is a qualified miner and mine manager. He has worked at Blanket Gold Mine since 1969 in a range of roles including geological technician, overseer miner and underground manager.
Mr Mangezi has been General Manager of Blanket Mine since 1993, with full responsibility for day-to-day operations.
Maurice Mason
VP Corporate Development
Maurice Mason
VP Corporate Development
Maurice is is an engineer with an MBA from Henley Reading University. Before Joining Caledonia, Maurice was a securities analyst at Stifel, a US investment bank, where he focused on the mining sector.
Prior to working as a securities analyst Maurice worked for 6 years with Anglo American in their Platinum and Coal operations based in both the Johannesburg and London offices.
Maurice is based in London.
Adam Chester
General Counsel, Company Secretary and Head of Risk and Compliance
Adam Chester
General Counsel, Company Secretary and Head of Risk and Compliance
Mr Chester is a dual qualified lawyer (England and Jersey, Channel Islands) and previously worked as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales at international law firms in the City of London and, more recently, as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey at an international offshore law firm in which he was a partner.
He has extensive experience advising businesses and individuals on a variety of commercial and corporate legal issues. Mr Chester was appointed General Counsel, Company Secretary and Head of Risk and Compliance in January 2017.
Janet Hobkirk
Group Mineral Resource Manager
Janet Hobkirk
Group Mineral Resource Manager
Janet Hobkirk is a qualified geologist with broad operational experience across the mining value chain from resource delineation to metal accounting. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Geology and Engineering Geology from the University of Natal. Prior to joining Caledonia in January 2020, Janet worked for Harmony Gold Mining Company and Anglo American Platinum. Until 2017 Janet managed the 240-member mineral resource management team at the Amandelbult Complex which extracted 7 million tonnes per annum from a complex infrastructure of vertical and decline shafts and from small surface pits.
Camilla Horsfall
Vice President Investor Relations
Camilla Horsfall
Vice President Investor Relations
Camilla joined Caledonia after seven years at Blytheweigh, a Financial PR agency where she focused on natural resources. Previous to that she was at Metal Bulletin, the UK’s leading specialist publication on the global steel and commodities markets.