Chris Sheppard

As the Chief Operations Officer – South Africa, Chris’ portfolio post the recently announced Asset sales and closures, includes AngloGold Ashanti’s remaining South African assets include the Mponeng underground gold mine, and two surface operations comprising the Mine Waste Solutions tailings dump-retreatment business and the rock dump reclamation and processing business. Together, these South African operating units account for about 13% of AngloGold Ashanti’s total annual production. Chris, a mining engineer by profession, was most recently Managing Director of Murray & Roberts Cementation, one of Africa’s largest mining contractors and a division of South Africa’s largest publicly traded engineering & construction group.

Prior to that, Chris held positions as head of both mining and technical services at Lonmin Plc for four years, following six years at Anglo American Platinum Ltd., where he most recently held the post of Head Mining Technical Services. Chris is also an alumnus of Anglo American Plc’s Gold & Uranium Division and AngloGold Ltd., where he served latterly as general manager of deep gold mining operations in the Free State between 1997 and 2001. Chris holds a Bsc in Mining Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, and also completed an Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.