James Hartwell
Chief Executive Officer
25 years across African gold and base-metal operations. Previously COO of a mid-tier West African producer.
Our People
Meet the people who turn ambitions into reality.
Our 4,200+ employees — including the leadership team below — are the foundation of everything we do. 78% of our workforce is drawn from the host communities where we operate.
Executive Committee
Mei Lin Chen
Chief Financial Officer
Former Standard Chartered mining sector lead. Chartered accountant with deep capital-markets experience.
Hiroshi Tanaka
Chief Operating Officer
Mining engineer (Imperial College). Twenty years on the Witwatersrand and Lake Victoria gold belts.
Sophie Laurent
Head of Sustainability & ESG
Leads our climate, water and community-investment strategy across all eight host countries.
Board of Directors
Sir Andrew Whitfield
Independent Non-Executive Chair
Former chair of an FTSE 250 mining company. Forty years in African resources.
Dr Anika Schmidt
Independent Non-Executive Director
Geologist and academic. Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee.
Operations Leadership
Marcus Eriksson
General Manager, Geita Operations
Runs our flagship 600koz/year gold complex in north-western Tanzania.
Priya Raghavan
General Manager, Kakamega Project
Brought the Western Kenya greenstone gold project from exploration to bankable feasibility.