Mr Baxter was appointed CEO of the Minerals Council in 2015. He has 29 years of high-level advocacy and strategy experience in the business and mining sectors. He was involved in the first mineral policy discussions with the ANC in 1992 and in most of the significant minerals policy discussions since then.  He has participated in, and often led, the business negotiation teams on a range of issues such as the 2002 Mining Charter, the 1998 Energy Policy White Paper, the 1997 Skills Development Act, the 2009 Royalty Act, the 2010 revised Mining Charter, etc. He has participated in all the Presidential Job Summit and Investment Conferences, and he has played a leadership role in encouraging government to focus on the issues that drive South Africa’s investment competitiveness. He previously chaired the Business Unity South Africa’s (BUSA) Economic Policy Committee and Economic Growth Task Team. He is the Founding Chairman of the World Platinum Investment Council. He recently participated in President Ramaphosa’s 7-a-side NEDLAC leadership team looking at how to revive the economy post COVID-19. He has played a key leadership role in rejuvenating the brand of the Minerals Council and brings material leadership, governance, strategy, investment, and transformation skills to the table.

He is a member of the Minerals Council Board, the BUSA Board, the TEBA Fund Trust Board of Trustees and he chairs the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). He is Chairman of the Associations Coordination Group of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and is the current Chairman of the Mining Industry Association of Southern Africa (MIASA). In 2020, Mr Baxter was the winner of the Mining Review Africa, 2020 Mining Thought Leader of the Year award. The article states “Fully committed to the mining industry and a person who pulls no punches when it comes to addressing pertinent matters. These words aptly describe Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter.” In 2018, Mr Baxter was awarded the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s (SAIMM) Brigadier Stokes Platinum medal for his contribution to the South African mining sector. Since the launch of the MiningMX “Rainmaker and Pot-stirrers” publication, Mr Baxter has been listed as one of Africa’s top 100 most influential people in the mining industry.

Brett joined RCF in 2009 and has spent the last 12 years working in various investment offices of RCF across three continents. He has more than 18 years of technical and commercial experience in the development of mining assets across the globe and is currently responsible for managing a diverse mix of assets within the private equity group. Brett is also a Non-Executive Director of Global Advanced Metals.

Huw Daniel is currently based in Hong Kong where he leads Platinum Guild International (PGI), the world’s leading authority on the platinum jewellery industry. CEO Daniel oversees platinum jewellery marketing strategies and budgets globally. Prior to his promotion as CEO in 2015, he oversaw strategy and business development as President of Platinum Guild International USA for 12 years. CEO Daniel has over 25 years of experience in marketing and communications including 15 years at PGI. Previously he worked at Saatchi and JWT across Europe, Asia and the US, with a client list including Procter & Gamble, De Beers, LVMH and the European Commission.

Henk de Hoop is the new CEO of SFA (Oxford). SFA (Oxford) is a world-renowned authority on platinum-group metals and provides in-depth market intelligence on battery raw materials and the hydrogen economy. Henk holds an MSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Technology in Delft and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. After starting his career in South Africa working on the gold mines, he spent the next 12 years working for various stockbroking firms, covering listed mining stocks in the gold, diamonds, PGMs, coal and diversified space. He became the top-rated PGMs analyst for 3 consecutive years from 2005-2007. He joined Rand Merchant bank as a resource sector investment banker in 2008,working on a broad range of M&A, debt, and equity raising transactions, before joining SFA in 2022.

Sandra started her career as an academic, lecturing company and tax law at the University of the Free State, before joining Johannesburg Law Firm Brink Cohen le Roux & Roodt. It was here that she became involved in the South African mining industry, working first on the labour side of the business, before moving on to the corporate and commercial end of practice. Sandra has been with Standard Bank for just over ten years and focuses exclusively on African corporate finance transactions in mining and metals.

In July 2018, Kevin co-founded AP Ventures. AP Ventures is an independent venture capital fund investing in companies whose innovation is made possible by the unique properties of Platinum Group Metals. AP Ventures is proud to have three world class institutions as committed investors, namely; Anglo American Platinum, the Public Investment Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation. Prior to this, Kevin was with Anglo American for 10 years where he held senior positions in Finance and Corporate Finance and has extensive experience across Europe, South Africa and the USA. Kevin is a UCT alumni and South African qualified Chartered Accountant. He lives in South West London with his wife and daughter.

Stephen Forrest, one of the PGM industry’s foremost authorities, known universally for his value-chain-spanning expertise, has spent a career working with a portfolio of major commodity companies and clients, in more recent years becoming the analytical link between producer and end-user, processor and investor, as part of SFA (Oxford), the leading PGM consultancy he set up in 2001.

Stephen’s industry track record is significant, not least for the many facets it encompasses, having worked as a Commodities Strategist, Fund Manager and Operations Manager, risen to the highest levels of mining management, conducted trade finance and capital-raising exercises in the Eastern Bloc and Western world, and accomplished Top Rating as a Mining Analyst covering platinum-group metals, base metal and coal markets. Through this multifaceted history, he has built up an exclusive network of contacts that transcends individual industrial sectors and value chain linkages, placing him in a unique position to provide crosscommodity expertise to a trusting client base.

Leveraging off this vast relationship set, in 2001 he founded SFA (Oxford), an independent consultancy covering a broad spectrum of mining-, minerals- and commodity-related issues, including macroeconomic analysis, supply and demand scenarios, in-depth cost analysis, derivative research and price forecasting. He has since led SFA towards becoming the industry standard in commodity research, managing the mapping of the entire PGM value chain, assisting company clients in more than $5 billion in strategic transactions, and offering otherwise unobtainable insights into the PGM and other commodity industries.

Neal Froneman was appointed executive director and CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater on 1 January 2013. Over the past five years he has led the transformation of Sibanye-Stillwater from a 1.5Moz South African-based gold producer into a leading precious metals miner with an international operating footprint ranking among the world’s top three PGM producers. His career spans more than 30 years during which time he worked at Gold Fields of South Africa Limited, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) and JCI Limited. In April 2003, Neal was appointed CEO of Aflease Gold Limited (Aflease Gold), which, through a series of reverse take-overs, became Gold One International Limited (Gold One) in May 2009. He was primarily responsible for the creation of Uranium One Incorporated (Uranium One) from the Aflease Gold uranium assets. During this period, he was CEO of Aflease Gold and Uranium One until his resignation from Uranium One in February 2008. He held the CEO position at Gold One until his appointment at Sibanye-Stillwater. In May 2016, he was elected to serve as a Vice President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa (now the Minerals Council South Africa).

Bernhard Fuchs joined Degussa’s precious metals business in 1999, after having worked as a banker and lawyer (Dr. in law). Following his assignment as assistant to the CEO, he was in 2002 appointed as CFO of Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt AG. In 2009 he moved to China as President Umicore Greater China, overseeing the growth of the group in precious metals as well as other specialty metals. Since 2014 he has been responsible for Umicore’s global Precious Metals Management as well as for the global sales organization of the Umicore group. He also serves as Chairman of Umicore AG, Umicore’s largest entity in Germany with 1.000 employees at three sites. He is a board member of the International Platinum Association (IPA), as well as of the German Precious Metals Federation.

Tim Ingle is Senior Vice President, Precious Metals Services, based in Iselin, NJ - a position he has held since March 2022. In this role, he is responsible for leading BASF’s global platinum group metal services and recycling business. Tim previously served as Vice President, Precious Metals Refining, Chemicals & Battery Recycling from October 2018 to February 2022. He joined BASF in 2004, starting in the catalysts division working in sales and strategic planning until 2011. From there, he worked in business management in Performance Chemicals, supported the CEO of BASF Corporation in a staff role and held a leadership role in procurement. He has a wide range of experiences across functions, businesses and countries, including successfully leading transformations. Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA in Finance and Management from Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Tal Lomnitzer is a Senior Investment Manager on the Global Natural Resources Team at Janus Henderson, a position he has held since 2019. He is a portfolio manager within the suite of Global Natural Resource strategies. Prior to this, he was Deputy Head of Global Resources and Fund Manager at Colonial First State Global Asset Management from 2011. He launched and ran various global resources and energy funds at Merchant Capital, NewSmith Capital, and ORN Capital, where he was a partner from 2010, 2007, and 2004, respectively. Tal began his career in 1998 at Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Asset Management after receiving first-class BA and MA degrees in Economics from Cambridge University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 24 years of financial industry experience. He has is a certified company director and serves as Chairman of HVH Arts, a charity serving underprivileged children in London.

Sandy joined Allan Gray as an investment analyst and economist in October 1991. Previously he was employed by Gold Fields of South Africa Limited in a variety of management positions for 24 years, where much of his experience was focused on investment-related activities. His current responsibilities include the management of fixed interest and individual client portfolios and he is a fund manager for the Allan Gray Bond Fund. He was a director of Allan Gray Limited from 1997 to 2006.

Nico Muller holds a BSc Mining Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and has a 28-year mining career across a range of commodities, including platinum. He has a proven track record as a successful operator and is a highly-rated leader and strategic thinker. Nico was appointed to the board of Implats as both Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director in April 2017. Prior to this he served as Executive Vice-President of Gold Fields’ South African operations (South Deep) for three years, where he fulfilled a pivotal role in re-energising and repositioning the mine for a sustainable future. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer at Royal Bafokeng Platinum, and in various other high-level positions at Anglovaal, African Rainbow Minerals, Avgold and De Beers.

Benny Oeyen is from Belgium but was born and grew up in Germany.  He has worked and lived in Belgium, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, China and now the UK.  He has a Masters’ Degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.  He has 28 years of global automotive experience.  He worked for Mazda Motors European HQ in Brussels as their European Product Manager. Benny was with DaimlerChrysler as a Senior Product Manager at their European HQ, as a Senior Manager, Product Strategy at their World HQ in Detroit, USA, and finally as Managing Director in Zurich, Switzerland.  He has also worked for Hyundai Kia as their Chief Marketing Officer for Europe in Frankfurt, Germany and at General Motors China as their Vice President, Product Strategy in Shanghai.  Since Nov 2017 he has been the Executive Head, Market Development for Anglo American in London.  

Before joining Rothschild & Co in this role in 2003, she had 17 years of experience in the City of London at major financial institutions where she was consistently rated as one of the top investment analysts in mining, ending up as head of the European Mining Research at SSMB (part of Citigroup). In 2006, Fiona formed AIM Mining Research and, in the same year, published "Understanding Junior Miners" in conjunction with three geologists and a mining engineer. Prior to arrival in the City of London in 1986, she had six years of experience in financial journalism and academia in South Africa, building up a broad knowledge of managerial and financial topics. Fiona served as a non-executive director on the board of Dominion Diamond Corporation from February 2014 to January 2016.

Steve Phiri is an admitted attorney to the High Court of South Africa. His qualifications include a B Juris degree, University of the North; LLB, Vista University; Diploma in Corporate Law, Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) and an LLM degree from the University of Johannesburg. Steve was appointed CEO of RBPlat in April 2010. Prior to this appointment he was the CEO of Merafe Resources, a public company listed on the JSE, for a period of six years. He has served as a non-executive director on the Board of Impala Platinum Limited and brings to RBPlat a significant wealth of mining and business experience, gained over a period of more than 15 years. He has also served as a non-executive director on the boards of Zurich Insurance Company SA and the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator. In 2017, Mr. Phiri was elected as one of the Mineral Council South Africa’s three Vice presidents.

Viran Pillay is a Senior Manager for Sustainability in the Sasol’s Environmental Sustainability department. In his role, he is responsible for coordinating and integrating  the development of Sasol’s sustainability roadmaps such as greenhouse gas emission reduction where green hydrogen is a key lever in Sasol’s decarbonisation plans.

Phoevos Pouroulis is the Chief Executive Officer of Tharisa plc, with responsibility for overall strategy and management. Phoevos has held various senior managerial and operational positions in his more than 19-year career. He has extensive experience in project management, mining design, commissioning and mining operations, including PGMs and chrome, having been involved in South Africa's mining industry since 2003. He has served as Commercial Director for Chromex Mining plc and was a founding member of Keaton Energy. Phoevos currently serves on the board of the World Platinum Investment Council. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Science and Business Administration (Boston University, USA).

Brenton Saunders manages the Pendal Australian Midcap Equity Fund and the Pendal Natural Resources Fund and has been with Pendal for 9 years. Pendal is a global equities, fixed income and balanced portfolio asset manager with assets under management of A$136bn. Prior to Pendal, Brenton held portfolio management roles at Taurus Funds Management, Macquarie Funds Management and Craton Capital. Brenton did 10 years as a sell-side research analyst at Standard Bank, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Brenton worked as a Mine Geologist at Randfontein Estates Gold Mine and Harmony Gold as an executive overseeing investor relations. Brenton has a Masters in Geology from the University of Johannesburg.

Wilma Swarts joined Metals Focus as Director of PGM Research in April 2020. Prior to this she headed the commercial services and marketing functions at Lonmin Plc. Prior to joining the mining sector, she worked in the automotive industry. She holds a M.Sc. in International Business Administration from the University of London and an honours degree from the University of Johannesburg.

Natascha has served as Anglo American Platinum’s CEO since April 2020, also sitting on the Anglo American Platinum Board and the Group Management Committee of Anglo American plc. Prior to that, she spent five years as Group Head of Processing for Anglo American. Natascha is a seasoned senior executive, bringing 28 years of operational experience from across the mining industry, spanning many different countries, metals and minerals including, of course, PGMs. Viljoen's operational executive experience also includes six years at Lonmin, where her last post was Executive Vice President of Processing. Viljoen holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from North-West University, in South Africa, and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Cape Town.

Philipp is a chemist by education and received a PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has held several management positions in the chemical industry in new business development, marketing, sales and business management in Norway, USA, Switzerland and Germany. He joined Heraeus in 2016 and is now leading innovation and new business development for Heraeus Precious Metals. Philipp is based at Heraeus’ Headquarters in Hanau, Germany.

Paul joined the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) from Bain & Company, the global management consultancy, where he led the firm’s UK financial practice. Paul is an investment and wealth management specialist who has enjoyed considerable involvement in the broad financial services sector over the last 25 years. He has also been deeply involved in the precious metals market. While at Bain & Company, Paul helped raise the investment attractiveness of gold by leading the development of the gold market’s first and largest Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). Alongside his role at WPIC, Paul is a Non-Executive Director of AXA XL UK and Ireland insurance businesses, a group board independent director at Unigestion Holdings SA and Chair of their UK business. Paul is also Chairman of Action Against Hunger (UK), a global charity.