Non-executive Directors

Johnson  Njeke - Chairman
BCom (Fort Hare), BCompt (Hons) (Unisa), CA (SA), Higher Dip. in Tax Law (RAU).

Appointed non-executive Director on 1 January 2002. Chairman of the Audit committee. Deputy Chairman of Kagiso Media. Director of companies, including First Lifestyle, NM Rothschild (SA), Compass Group (SA) and Waco Africa. 

Chris Murray - Director
BCom, CA, MBL.

Appointed non-executive Director of ArcelorMittal South Africa on 11 May 2007. Chairs the Safety, Health and Environment committee. Previously Chief Executive of Haggie Group until 2004. Active for the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA). 

Noluthando Orleyn - Director
BJuris, BProc LLB, PhD Hons.

Appointed non-executive director on 1 February 2007. Chairs the Human Resources and Nominations committee. Director of companies, including South African Reserve Bank, Impala Platinum, Western Areas, Toyota SA and Reunert.

Malcolm  MacDonald - Director 

Appointed non-executive Director of ArcelorMittal South Africa on 5 February 2010. Between 1997 and 2004 Macdonald was the Financial Director of Iscor, ArcelorMittal South Africa's predecessor, and currently serves as a non-executive director and chairman of audit committees on the boards of Astral Foods, GijimaAST and Coris Capital.

Lumkile  Mondi - Director
MA Economics (Eastern Illinois University), BCom Hons Economics (Wits University). 

Appointed non-executive Director of ArcelorMittal South Africa on 11 May 2007. Chief Economist of the Industrial Development Corporation. Director of companies, including Yard Capital, Incwala Resources, KWV, Ucingo, Giri Investment, G10 and Antares.

Davinder Chugh - Director
BA LLB, BSc Hons, MBA (India).

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in May 2002 as Executive Director, Commercial. Appointed Chief Executive Officer in September 2004. Appointed as non-executive Director of ArcelorMittal South Africa in September 2006.

Sudhir  Maheshwari - Director
BCom (Hon), CA CS.

Executive Vice President, Finance & Corporate Treasurer for Mittal Steel Company N.V. Appointed non-executive Director of ArcelorMittal South Africa in November 2002.

Francine-Ann (Fran) Du Plessis
B.Comm (Law), LLB (Stellenbosch University), CA 

Appointed as a non-executive director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee on 4 May 2011. Previously served on the IDC and SAA Boards.  She also serves on the boards of Naspers Limited, Sanlam Limited, Palaborwa Mining Company Limited and Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited.

Gonzalo Urquijo - Director 
Economics and Political Science (Yale), MBA (Instituto de Empresa,  Madrid)

Appointed as a non-executive director on 30 May 2011. He has held several other positions within the ArcelorMittal Group, including Deputy Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the functional directorates of distribution.

 Executive Directors

Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita - Chief Executive Officer
BSc (Hons) (Elec Eng), MSc (Elec Eng), MBA

Appointed as CEO and a member of the board on 1 March 2008. She was previously Chief Officer, Mergers & Acquisitions, at the Vodacom Group and prior to joining Vodacom, she had served as CEO of Alliance Capital Management and Chairman of Alliance Capital Namibia. Director of companies, including Macsteel International, Kalagadi Manganese and Arivia.kom. 

Rudolph Torlage - Chief Financial Officer
BAcc (Stellenbosch), BCom Hons (Accounting) (UNISA), CTA (UNISA), CA (SA), MDP.  

Joined Iscor in September 1990 as internal auditor working for the company's head office. With the exception of a brief stint at Absa as Manager, Group Finance, in 1998/99, he has held a number of senior management positions in the finance portfolio at ArcelorMittal South Africa. Appointed General Manager, Company Controlling, in 2005. 

Senior Management

Hans-Ludwig Rosenstock - Chief Operating Officer Master’s Degree in Physical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) - Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany, PhD (Dr.-Ing.) - Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochnische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.

His career in metallurgy began in 1987 in Thyssen Group. He has been employed at ArcelorMittal from 2003. Since then he has held various successive COO roles at ArcelorMittal, (then Mittal Steel) Ruhrort and Hochfeld, ArcelorMittal Galati, ArcelorMittal Rodange & Schifflange and later CEO of ArcelorMittal Duisburg. Since 2010 he held the position of COO and Vice Chairman of the board at ArcelorMittal Ostrava.

Jean-Jacques Aernout - Chief Technology Officer  Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics (University of Science and Technology, Lille, France).

Joined the Dunkirk Plant in 1986 as an R&D engineer. Since 1990 has held various positions with in the Sales Department for the Technical Support Field. In 2000 he was appointed Product Policy and Services Director for the whole industry market. Following the Arcelor merger he took responsibility for the Innovation Platform department in Product R&D From 2005-2007 he worked within Downstream Corporate of Flat Carbon Europe in Luxemburg.

Joined the Group in 2001 as Product Manager. Flat Products of the marketing arm of Mittal Steel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He became General Manager, Sales & Marketing at the Company's China Representative Office in Beijing in 2004 and moved to Morocco in April 2007 as Managing Director of ArcelorMittal International in Casablanca.

Willem Nel - General Manager: Procurement & Logistics
Degree in Economics, a Master's degree in Commercial Law (University of Pretoria) and an MBA (Bond University in Australia).

Joined the Group in 2004 as Manager, Treasury and Risk Management of ArcelorMittal South Africa. Previosuly Willem held the position of Treasurer - Australian Operations for BHP Billiton in Australia. He was also Chief Financial Market Analyst at ABSA Bank in South Africa. in 2008 he moved to Paris to take up the role as Head of Middle Office of ArcelorMittal Group Treasury.

Themba Nkosi - General Manager: Human Resources BA Hons (Employment Relations).

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa on 1 July 2009. Previously he was the Vice-President of Human Capital at Lonmin and prior to that had spent about 10 years with the sub-Saharan African division of retail group Pepsico International, operating in South Africa under the Simba brand. The last three years he was PepsiCo's Human Resources Director, sub-Saharan Africa.

Heinrich Kriel - General Manager: Vanderbijlpark Works
BEng (Mechanical), EMP (Darden).

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in 1992. Held various management positions at Vanderbijlpark Works. Appointed as General Manager,Saldanha Works, on 15 September 2006 and returned to Vanderbijlpark in 2009 to take up the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer of Arcelor Mittal South Africa. Appointed General Manager,Vanderbijlpark Works from 1 March 2010.

Gerald Gadd - General Manager: Newcastle Works
(Acting) 

Dhesan Moodley - General Manager: Saldanha Works BSC Eng (Elect), PrEng, MBA, MDP (Darden)

Joined ArcelorMittal in 1992 as a engineering bursary holder. Previous management positions at ArcelorMittal include Plant Manager Direct Reduction, Plant Manager Oxygen Steel Making and Works Manager Steel Making. Appointed as General Manager, Saldanha Works on the 1 January 2011.

Abe Grootboom - General Manager: Coke & Chemicals
BSc.(Hons) Chemistry (Drew University, New Jersey, USA)

Appointed as General Manager, ArcelorMittal Coke & Chemicals, from 1 June 2011. Previously Manager, Sales and Distribution at ArcelorMittal Coke & Chemicals. Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in 2004 as Manager, By-Products.  His career spans a number of functions from quality assurance to sales and marketing in different industries.

Roelof Jansen - General Manager: Tubular Products PrEng B.Eng MBA GCC

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in 1989. Since then appointed in different positions as Engineer at Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging Works. Previously Manager Strategy and Business Unit Improvement Tubular Products.

Mlawuli Manjingolo - Head of Legal, Compliance & Company Secretarial Services
BA Law and LLB (UCT) PMB (Harvard).

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in February 2010 from Afrox where he was General Legal Counsel and Company Secretary. Prior to that he served in various legal roles at PetroSA and before that Mossgas for over 10 years.

Siegfried  Spänig - Group Manager: Environment
BSc (Chemistry), HED, MDP.

Joined Iscor in 1996 to oversee environmental management at Saldanha Steel during the start-up and early phase of the plant.Appointed in 2006 as Manager, Environment, within the corporate Safety, Health and Environment department was appointed as Group Manager, Environment, in 2008.

Bram Schreuder - Group Manager: Information Management
BSc (Computer Science and Operations Research), MAP.

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in 1987 in the automation department. Held various management position and part of the Saldanha Steel greenfield project team. He was appointed as Group Manager, Information Management, in 2008.

Adinda Louw - Group Manager: Internal Assurance
BCom Accounting (Potchefstroom University), MAP (Wits), EDP (Kellogg), MBA (North West University).

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in August 1993. She has held a number of managerial positions before being appointed as Group Manager, Internal Assurance, in 2008. Completed her articles at KPMG.

Molupe Thelejane - Group Manager: Health, Safety, & Wellness
MPhil (Information & Knowledge Management), BSc (Chemical Engineering) - University of Cape Town.

Joined ArcelorMittal South Africa on 1 November 2010. Previously worked at Tongaat-Hulett’s Starch and Glucose facility in Belville, Cape Town and Sappi. He is also a part-time lecturer in the Information and Knowledge Management department at Stellenbosch University.

B. Com (University of Potchefstroom), MBA (University of Potchefstroom)

Joined Iscor in 1995 as finance graduate in training. Has held various positions within Finance and was appointed as Group Manager Company Controlling in 2010.