ZCI - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Engineer With a

Cyril O'Connor is a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town and a D.Eng. in Metallurgical Engineering from Stellenbosch University. He is the Director of the Centre for Minerals Research at UCT and his main area of research is flotation. He is presently President of the International Mineral Processing Council, holds the AngloPlatinum Chair in Minerals Processing, is a member of the Executive of the Academy of Engineering of South Africa, is CEO of the South African Minerals to Metals Research Institute, is a former Vice-President of the International Zeolite Association and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the XXII IMPC and the 14th International Zeolite Conference. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised or co-supervised more than 30 PhD and 25 MSc graduates. He was Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering for 8 years, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment for 10 years and served as Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor from April 2008-May 2009. He is an Hon. Fellow of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and a Fellow of, respectively, the Royal Society of South Africa, the University of Cape Town, the South African Academy of Engineering, the South African Institution of Chemical Engineering and IUPAC. He is a founder member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the Board of Directors
• CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NON - INDEPENDENT )

Thomas Kamwendo was appointed CEO of the company on 1 November 2011. He was born on 14 May 1958 in Mpika Zambia. Mr Kamwendo has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering obtained from Brighton Polytechnic in the United Kingdom in 1983. He has 30 years of experience in the Zambian mining industry having started his professional career as an engineer in what is today KCM's Nchanga Division. Mr Kamwendo has been CEO of three engineering companies and managing partner of his own multidisciplinary consulting firm. He has also chaired the boards of many companies and institutions among them the National Savings and Credit Bank, the Environmental Council of Zambia, ZCI, the Copperbelt Development Foundation, the Engineering Institution of Zambia, the Kitwe Health Management Board and the Copperbelt University. Other organisations on whose boards he has served include Ndola Lime Company, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) and the Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He previously served on a Presidential Commission of Enquiry into university education in Zambia.

Job Titles:

• Company Secretary
• Member of the Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Executive Financial Director of ZCI Ltd
• EXECUTIVE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR, NON - INDEPENDENT )

Willem Badenhorst was appointed executive financial director of ZCI Ltd in November 2012. Willem is based in Luxembourg where he is a Senior Manager and in charge of the Private Client Accounting business area of the Maitland Group, a firm that provides multi-jurisdictional legal, tax, fiduciary, investment and fund administration services to private, corporate and institutional clients. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and has a wide range of experience in the investment fund and professional services industry. He began his career with an audit and professional services firm in Cape Town from 2003 to 2005. At the start of 2006 Willem relocated to Luxembourg where he took up an Audit Manager appointment with Deloitte, specialising in the audit of regulated UCITS funds, offshore hedge funds and private equity funds investing in emerging market economies. Willem joined Maitland in 2009, first in a consulting role and subsequently heading up the Product Solutions business area. Since November 2011 Willem oversees Maitland's Private Client Accounting Services business area, and is responsible for all client accounting operations across all of Maitland's service locations across Europe, the Caribbean and South Africa.