JG Best

Mr Best has spent most of his career in the mining industry in various senior financial and managing roles.  When he retired in July 2005 he was an executive director and chief financial officer of AngloGold Ashanti.  He has served on a number of boards as a non-executive director and is currently a non-executive director of the unlisted AngloGold Ashanti Holdings plc where he is chairman of the audit committee, and Polymetal International Plc (a company listed on the London Stock Exchange) where he is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration committee.

Mr Best’s qualifications include: associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, and an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand.  Mr Best was appointed to the Metair board as an independent non-executive director in February 2009.

He is also the chairman of the Metair board audit and risk committee and the investment committee.  In adhering to good corporate governance procedures, as it relates to the recommendations set forth in the King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, 2016 (“King IV”), Mr Best was appointed as lead independent director of the company with effect from 30 November 2017.