Executive moves at Gold Fields
OLD Fields has made three new senior executive appointments. Kgabo Moabelo has been promoted to Gold Fields’ managing executive in South Africa. He was previously the executive vice-president of people and organisational effectiveness for the group, including its international operations.
Moabelo joined Gold Fields in 2010 from Cisco Systems and has held leadership roles not only in mining, but in energy, financial services and information technology.
Lee-Ann Samuel will become Gold Fields’ senior vice-president of human resources. She previously headed the company’s remuneration and employee benefits portfolio. Samuel, who joined Gold Fields in 2009, has held a number of managerial positions at large private sector companies and has consulted widely to local and provincial government departments.
Ernesto Balarezo has been appointed executive vicepresident for South America and will replace Juan-Luis Kruger. A Peruvian national, he joins Gold Fields from Hochschild Mining, a Limalisted mining company where he was vice-president of operations. He has 21 years’ professional experience in the industrial and mining sector. and as a director and general manager for eBay Express Germany.
She has also worked as chief operating officer at brands4friends, an eBay subsidiary. Among other qualifications, Genthner-Kappesz has a PhD in maths. PROFESSOR Hugo Pienaar has joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s employment practice as a director. Pienaar lectures part time in employment law to postgraduate students at various tertiary institutions, the Da Vinci Institute and for the Law Society of South Africa.
He has contributed to textbooks and served on the government task team that was established to compile labour legislation. He has also advised CONNIE Molusi has been appointed nonexecutive director to the Basil Read board, representing the mining, development and engineering group’s black economic empowerment partner, Sishen Iron Ore Company Community Development Trust.
Molusi is the trust ’ s chairman. He has 25 years’ business experience and was previously executive director and group chief executive officer of Johnnic Communications, formerly Avusa and now known as Times Media Group, owners of the Sunday Times.
He has a master of arts degree from Notre Dame University, Indiana, US, and a bachelor of journalism degree from Rhodes University.
He has sat on various boards, including the Media Development and Diversity Agency and Business Against Crime South Africa. on labour law frameworks for large institutions in the United Arab Emirates.
Andiswa Ndoni has been appointed executive director of legal and secretarial at Basil Read. She has a BProc LLB, a postgraduate diploma in business management and a certificate in corporate governance. Ndoni was previously company secretary and legal adviser at Ubank, the CEO of the Black Lawyers’ Association Legal Education Centre, senior assistant state attorney and a director of the School of Legal Practice in East London. She is a member of the Judicial Services Commission and the Competition Tribunal.
Basil Read Holdings Limited has appointed Bruce Morton executive director of special projects and construction.
Morton has a master’s degree in engineering and was previously at Aurecon, where he was responsible for the business development of airport infrastructure globally.