Rupert is a lawyer by profession and holds a BA LLB degree. He has over 40 years of experience and is the founder of the Tabacks legal firm, one of South Africa’s premier law firms. He has many years of experience in mining specific deals and structuring with most of the major South African Mining Houses. Rupert is also a mining entrepreneur who has been instrumental in the building of several junior mining companies. Rupert’s key strengths are being structured, logical, disciplined with a strong focus on negotiation and strategy.

Bev is a qualified actuary, CFA, and FSCA-approved valuator with over 30 years of experience in the retirement fund industry. She spent much of her career as a senior investment consultant to trustee boards of some of South Africa’s largest funds, advising on investment strategy, risk management, and long-term growth. Bev currently serves on the Boards of the Public Investment Corporation and AVBOB, where she brings her deep expertise in governance, investment oversight, and regulatory compliance. She has played a pivotal role in shaping strategic investment decisions, ensuring robust risk frameworks, and supporting sustainable value creation for trustees, members, and investors. Her extensive technical knowledge, combined with hands-on governance experience and a strong focus on long-term outcomes, positions her to deliver meaningful impact in driving shareholder confidence and sustainable growth.

Lindiwe is an accomplished executive who recently completed an Executive MBA at BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), adding to her over 30 years of experience spanning mining, banking, and auditing. She holds an MCom in Financial Management and a BCompt (Hons). During her 13 years at Royal Bafokeng Platinum, Lindiwe played a key role in the company's growth and transformation, contributing to its IPO, capital-raising transactions, and acquisitions. She served as a permanent invitee to the Board, Audit & Risk, and Social & Ethics Committees, gaining extensive governance and strategic decision-making experience. Internationally, she represented RBPlat on the boards of the World Platinum Investment Council (UK) and the Platinum Jewellery Development Association. Lindiwe brings a strong background in strategy, ESG and sustainability, investor relations, and stakeholder engagement, combining financial acumen with a purpose-driven leadership style to deliver long-term value for shareholders and stakeholders.

Peter holds BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc (Eng), and PhD (Eng) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as a BCom from UNISA. His postgraduate research was in uranium hydrometallurgy, and he went on to spend 25 years at Gencor and Mintek working in base metal leaching, PGM refining, and copper processing technologies. As Marketing Director at Mintek from 1992 to 2001, Peter promoted and implemented flotation, solvent extraction, electrowinning, and bioleaching projects internationally, including major initiatives in Mexico, Chile, and the United States. In 1999, he co-founded Atoll and became CEO in 2001, leading the growth of its slag recovery and smelting operations until his retirement in 2009. Peter combines deep technical expertise with international copper industry experience and proven executive leadership, bringing strong value to boards and stakeholders.

Llewellyn is a seasoned Executive and Non-Executive Director with over 30 years of experience driving strategy, turnarounds, and value creation in the mining and energy sectors across multiple countries. He has a proven track record of taking projects from greenfield stages to profitability, delivering shareholder value, and leading sustainable growth initiatives. As a Non-Executive Director and former CEO of Trans Hex Group Ltd. Llewellyn combines operational expertise with strategic insight, advising boards on high-impact decisions, risk management, and long-term value creation. He brings extensive industry knowledge, a strong professional network, and the ability to identify and execute growth opportunities, optimise operations, and enhance corporate governance – ultimately strengthening investor confidence.

Malande is a Chartered Accountant (SA), having qualified in 2002, and a seasoned executive, Certified Director® and Professional Retirement Fund Trustee with extensive experience across the financial services, mining, energy, manufacturing, water, healthcare, construction and retirement fund sectors. She brings significant expertise in business and financial management, strategy development and implementation, corporate governance, risk management, audit oversight, operations management, and financial and integrated reporting. In addition to her executive leadership and board experience, Malande has served as a trustee of various provident and pension funds, currently acting as an Independent Trustee of umbrella retirement funds and having chaired both Investment and Audit Committees. Her extensive governance, financial and strategic leadership experience enables her to provide valuable oversight and contribute meaningfully to the Company's long-term growth and sustainability objectives.

Shirley is a mining entrepreneur by profession and has built the SHIP mining Company over the past 15 years from a start-up company to a mining company with a Net Asset Value more than ZAR3bn. Her key strengths are being practical and pragmatic with a strong focus on strategic and systems thinking underpinned by a deep appreciation of ethics. She is a qualified miner with a blasting certificate. She holds 32 years of hands-on experience in ideating and developing entrepreneurial ventures.

Marcell is the Non-executive Chairperson of Texton Property Fund Limited, executive director of Rex Trueform Group Limited and African and Overseas Enterprises Limited, non executive director of Tsogo Sun Limited, Vunani Limited, Vunani Capital Partners Limited, and Chairperson of Geomer Investments Proprietary Limited. He served as the executive Chairperson of HCI and Chief Executive Officer of e-tv until 2014. Prior to this, he was a member of Parliament and Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers. Marcell currently runs a private family investment portfolio.

Gordon is an engineering focused mining executive with 30 years of hands-on operational experience in both major and junior categories, holding both senior leadership and CEO positions. Successful experience in large project engineering design, definitive study, project development and operations. International experience in mechanised surface (open cut) and shallow to ultra-deep underground mining operations expertise developed in Western Australia, West Africa, Mali, DRC, Brazil and Southern Africa. He is a proven results driven leader with direct technical and commercial work experience in the international mining industry.

Seten has built a diversified skillset over 16 years in mining and financial markets. Seten’s early career focused on fundamental equity and commodity analysis at SBG Securities, thereafter transitioning to balancing risk, unlocking value and timing of market trends as a Fund Manager at Capricorn Fund Managers and Visio Fund Managers. More recently he held the position of Executive at Implats, leading its strategic thinking into future global megatrends and the commodities which stand to benefit. Seten’s passion lies in applying his in-depth knowledge of commodities, battery chemistry, and the future of automobiles to strategically position companies to capitalise on opportunities presented by the energy transition global megatrend. Seten achieved top ratings as a Mining and Commodity Analyst and was the Chairman of the Hydrogen Expert Team at the Minerals Council of South Africa.