Gold Fields Finalises Executive Team
August 04 2009 - 6:23AM
PR Newswire (US)
JOHANNESBURG, August 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Fields
Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) today
announced the appointment of three additional members to its Group
executive team, reporting to Chief Executive Officer of Gold
Fields, Nick Holland. - Peter Turner has been appointed as
Executive Vice President: Head of the West Africa Region; - Juan
Luis Kruger ("Juancho") has been appointed as Executive Vice
President: Head of Operations for South America; and - Ben
Zikmundovsky has been appointed as Executive Vice President: Head
of International Capital Projects and International Technical
Services. Nick Holland said: "With these three executive
appointments the Gold Fields Executive Team is now complete and the
senior leadership in place to progress Gold Fields' new
regionalization strategy." "Peter and Juan Luis will take
responsibility for all operational activities in their respective
regions, and will work with the Business Development and
Exploration teams to grow production in each of their regions, to
achieve our medium-term target of one million ounces of production
within four years from each of these regions." "Ben will take
responsibility for all international growth projects as well as the
International Technical Group. This is a key appointment
considering the extensive growth pipeline and the number of
advanced stage projects which we hope to bring to account over the
next few years." Peter Turner, who trained as a Mechanical
Engineer, has more than 34 years of experience in the mining
industry. He moved to Ghana in 2008 when he was appointed Vice
President of Operations and before that he headed up the Kloof Gold
Mine in South Africa. Prior to joining Gold Fields in 2005, he was
the General Manager, East and West Africa Region for AngloGold
Ashanti where he spent the majority of his career. He progressed
through the ranks, starting as an Engineering Trainee at Vaal Reefs
in 1975, later spending time in various managerial positions at
numerous gold mining operations. Juancho Kruger, has a Bachelor
degree in Business and Finance and a Masters Degree in Business
Administration, and has over fifteen years of broad experience in
corporate finance, strategic planning and general management in the
mining, consumer goods, airline, telecommunications and financial
services industries in South America. Juancho joined Gold Fields in
October 2007 as Senior Vice President and Country Manager for the
Peruvian Operations, and lead the start up team at Cerro Corona. As
of April 2008, he assumed responsibilities for the South American
region. Prior to joining the company he held senior management
positions for LAN Airlines, Glencore, McKinsey&Co., Telefonica
and Procter&Gamble in South America. Ben Zikmundovsky,
originally trained as a Mechanical Engineer, has over 30 years'
experience in the development of companies, operations and projects
in the mining, mineral processing, construction and equipment
industries on the African continent, in South America, the former
Soviet Union countries, the Middle East and in Europe. Ben started
his career in 1973 as a Project Design Engineer for Roberts Union
Corporation (RUC) in South Africa, and has since worked in various
capacities ranging from Group Projects Director for Lenning
Holdings (JCI-South Africa), Business Manager for Bechtel Australia
and, until recently, as Managing Director Africa for GRD Minproc
Limited. About Gold Fields Gold Fields Limited is one of the
world's largest unhedged producers of gold with attributable steady
state production of approximately 4 million ounces per annum from
nine operating mines in South Africa, Peru, Ghana and Australia.
The company has total attributable ore reserves of 83 million
ounces and mineral resources of 251 million ounces. Gold Fields is
listed on the JSE Limited (primary listing), New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ Dubai Limited (NASDAQ Dubai), NYSE Euronext
in Brussels (NYX) and Swiss Exchange (SWX). For more information
please visit the Gold Fields website at
http://www.goldfields.co.za/. DATASOURCE: Gold Fields Limited
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