About

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.