Executive committee

Nicholas J Holland (52)
Chief Executive Officer
BCom, BAcc, University of the Witwatersrand; CA (SA)

Mr Holland was appointed an executive director of Gold Fields in 1997 and became CEO on 1 May 2008. Prior to that he was the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr Holland has more than 30 years’ experience in financial management, of which 21 years were in the mining industry. Prior to joining Gold Fields he was Financial Director and Senior Manager of Corporate Finance at Gencor. He is also an alternate director of the Rand Refinery.

Zakira Amra
Senior Vice-President:  Head of Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations
BCom. University of Natal

Ms Amra was appointed to the position of Senior Vice-President: Head of Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations on 3 May, 2011. She joined Gold Fields from Barclays Capital where she was a member of the Mining & Metals Investment Banking team. Prior to Barclays Capital she was employed at RMB Asset Management and Barnard Jacobs Mellet Securities where she focused on commodities and mining equity research.

Naseem Chohan (49)
Senior Vice-President: Sustainable Development
B Eng Electronics Engineering (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Naseem joined Gold Fields executive committee in September 2010 as Senior Vice-President, Sustainable Development. Naseem is a qualified Electronics Engineer and spent 25 years with De Beers during which he led the development of sustainability principles for the company and integrated sustainability in its business model. He left De Beers in 2009 when he was Group Consultant, Sustainability and ECOHS (Environment, Community, Occupational Health and Hygiene, and Safety), to start his own mining consultancy.

Jimmy WD Dowsley (52)
Senior Vice-President: Corporate Development
BSc (Mining Engineering), University of the Witwatersrand

Mr Dowsley has been General Manager of Corporate Development since March 1998, a title that changed to Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development, in 2002.

Cain Farrel (60)
Corporate Secretary
FCIS, MBA: Southern Cross University, Australia

Mr Farrel was appointed Corporate Secretary on 1 May 2003 after serving as Senior Divisional Secretary of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. Mr Farrel is Past President and a director of the Southern African Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Michael D Fleischer (49)
Executive Vice-President: General Counsel
BProc, University of the Witwatersrand. Admitted as attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1991, Advanced Taxation Certificate, Unisa

Mr Fleischer was appointed as Executive Vice-President, General Counsel, on 1 November 2006. Prior to his appointment Mr Fleischer was a partner in the corporate services department at Webber Wentzel.

Juan L Kruger 40)
Executive Vice-President: South America Region
Bachelor degree in Business and Finance, Universidad del Pacifico; MBA, Harvard Business School

Mr Kruger was appointed as Executive Vice-President, South America, on 1 August 2009. He has over 15 years of broad experience in corporate finance, strategic planning and general management in various industries in South America, the last being at LAN Airlines, South America’s leading carrier. Mr Kruger joined Gold Fields in October 2007 as Senior Vice-President for the Peruvian 0perations to start the Cerro Corona mine.

Tommy D McKeith (46)
Executive Vice-President: Head of Growth and International Projects
BSc Hons (Geology) GDE (Mining), and MBA, all from the University of the Witwatersrand

Mr McKeith was appointed Executive Vice-President:  Head of Growth and International Projects from 1 July 2011.  Prior to his appointment he was Executive Vice-President, Exploration and Business Development. Before rejoining Gold Fields, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Troy Resources NL. He had been with Gold Fields for 17 years before then, the last two – from August 2004 until January 2006 – as Vice- President of Business Development at Gold Fields.

Kgabo Moabelo (39)
Executive Vice-President: People and Organisational Effectiveness
B. Admin (Honours) in Industrial Psychology, MSc in Engineering Business Management

Mr Kgabo Moabelo was appointed Executive Vice-President:  People and Organisational Effectiveness from 1 August 2011.  Prior to this appointment he was Senior Vice-President: Human Resources. Before joining Gold Fields, he was the HR Director for Africa and Levant, at Cisco Systems, the IT Group. Prior to Cisco Systems he was the Human Resources Director for Standard Bank, overseeing the Global Personal and Business Banking, Credit and Support Services. Mr Moabelo also has extensive HR experience within the mining and energy industries, having worked for Anglo Platinum and Eskom respectively.

Tim Rowland (50)
Executive Vice-President: Group Technical Services
BSc Hons Geology; MSc Mineral Exploration; GDE Mining Engineering; Pr.Sci.Nat.; FSAIMM; FGSSA; GASA

Mr Rowland was appointed Executive Vice-President:  Group Technical Services from 1 July 2011. He has 25 years mining industry experience and was acting Executive Vice- President, South Africa Region, since 18th October 2010. Tim received his BSc (Hons) Geology at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 1982. In 1984 he received his MSc in Mining Geology and Mineral Exploration – Postgraduate at the University of Leicester, UK. During the period of 1986 – 2002 he worked at various Anglo American and AngloGold Ashanti Gold Operations and at the AAC Head Office as Technical Assistant, working mainly in the areas of Mine and Exploration Geology, Business Development, Mineral Resource Management and global merger and acquisition due diligences, before joining Gold Fields Limited, Kloof Division as Manager: Mineral Resources and Mine Planning, in January 2002. He was then appointed to Head Office as Group Senior Consultant: Mineral Resources and Mine Planning in 2004 where he was responsible for Mineral Resource Management in Gold Fields and specifically the Mineral Resource and Reserve Reporting process and governance. In October 2008, Tim was appointed as Vice-President and Head of the Gold Fields Technical Division for the South African Region. He has subsequently been appointed as acting Executive Vice-President and Head of the South Africa Region.

Paul A Schmidt (43)
Chief Financial Officer
BCom, University of the Witwatersrand; BCompt (Hons), Unisa; CA (SA)

Mr Schmidt was appointed CFO on 1 January 2009 and joined the Board on 6 November 2009. Prior to this he was acting CFO from 1 May 2008 and Financial Controller from 1 April 2003. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the mining industry.

Peter Turner (53)
Executive Vice-President: Head of South Africa Region
NHD Vaal Triangle Technikon SA, Mechanical Engineering; South African Mine Manager’s Certificate in Competency Metalliferous

Mr Turner was appointed Executive Vice-President: Head of South Africa Region from 8 August 2011. Prior to this he was Executive Vice-President, West Africa. He has more than 34 years of experience in the mining industry. He joined Gold Fields in 2005 as Vice-President of Operations at Kloof and later Driefontein. Prior to joining Gold Fields in 2005, he was the General Manager of the Africa Region for AngloGold Ashanti.

Peet Van Schalkwyk (47)
Executive Vice-President: Head of West Africa Region
Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Geology, and a diploma in Industrial Relations

Mr Van Schalkwyk was appointed Executive Vice-President: Head of West Africa Region from 19 September 2011. He has more than 25 years of experience in the mining industry. He returns to Gold Fields after a period in Turkey, where he was employed as General Manager of Alamos Gold Inc. Prior to this he filled positions as General Manager of both the Damang and Tarkwa Mines in Ghana. Prior to joining Gold Fields in 2007, he was the Metallurgical Manager of the Africa Region for AngloGold Ashanti, working in Mali and Tanzania since 2000.

Richard Michael Weston (58)
Executive Vice-President: Australasia Region
MSc (Mining Geomechanics), UNSW; GDM, UCQ; BE (Civil), Sydney University

Mr Weston was appointed to the position of Executive Vice-President, Australasia, on 1 May 2010. He was formerly Senior Vice-President, Operations, for Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, a gold and silver mining company based in Idaho in the United States. Before joining Coeur he oversaw the development of Barrick Australia’s Cowal gold project and, prior to that, Rio Tinto Australia’s ERA Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines.