Dexin Chen (42)
Bachelor of Mining; Senior Engineer
Chairman of the Board
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee

Mr Chen has served as the Deputy General Manager of Jinchuan Group Limited since September 2010. He has 16 years’ working experience in the mining industry, holding various positions in the Jinchuan Group. In January 2009 Mr Chen was appointed as the Mine Manager of Mining Zone 2 of Jinchuan Group Limited, and for two years before that he served as the Secretary of the Party Committee and the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of Mining Zone 2 of Jinchuan Group. From January 2006 to January 2007, Mr Chen was the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of Mining Zone 2 of Jinchuan Group Limited. He served as the Deputy Mine Manager of the Longshou Mine of Jinchuan Group Limited from June 2004 to January 2006. Mr Chen qualified from the Mining Institute of Xi’an with a Bachelor of Mining in July 1994.

John Adam Ferreira (52)
BEng (Metallurgy), MBL
Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Remuneration Committee
Member of the SHEC Committee

John joined Metorex in May 2012. He was previously the Executive
Chairman of Bateman Engineering NV. In his capacity as chief
executive he has had a great deal of exposure to Africa as well as
Europe, including Eastern Europe, and the Far East. He has spent
most of his career in the BHP Billiton Group. He spent six years as
the general manager of two of their chrome operations before
moving to the corporate office where he spent six years as the Vice
President responsible for Samancor chrome operations in
South Africa.CEO

Michael John Benfield - (44)
BCom, BAcc, CA(SA)
Chief Financial Officer

Mike joined Metorex on 1 June 2012 having previously been
the CFO of Bateman Engineering NV since May 2010. He was
previously the CFO of the Mineral Recovery Division of Bateman,
a position he held for over two years. During this period he became
very involved in the operations of the Group’s mineral processing
plants. He has held senior financial management positions with
the Super Group, Investec Bank and Ster Kinekor.

Peter John Deneen (56)
BA (Chinese economics), MIM (Masters International Management)
Non-executive Director
Member of Remuneration Committee

Peter joined the Jinchuan Group International Resources Co. Ltd,
based in Hong Kong, in 2011, as Senior Vice President in charge of
Trading. Peter has over 20 years’ experience as a metals trader,
formerly based in Beijing as a permanent resident and chief
representative of Cometals, a division of Commercial Metals
Company (NYSE: CMC). He later headed up Samsung America’s
worldwide alumina team, a major supplier to the Chinese aluminium
industry. Peter worked closely with plant management, and marketing
of copper cathodes. As a former director of Erdmin, a Mongolian
refined copper producer. He holds a master’s degree in International
Management (M.I.M) from the American Graduate School of
International Management (Thunderbird), and a BA in Chinese
Studies and economics from Hampshire College in Amherst,
Massachusetts. Peter is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Nonkululeko (“Nkuli”) Hathor (37)
Independent Non-executive Director
Chair of the SHEC Committee

Nkuli has a background in journalism and was a founder of the Voice
of Soweto Community radio station and is an entrepreneur with her
own entertainment company. She brings a dynamic wealth of
experience in a social and political capacity in Africa, having been
educated in a number of southern African countries. Nkuli was
appointed as a non-executive director of the Board of Metorex
Limited in August 2009.

Victor Mabuza (41)
BCom (Acc)
Independent Non-executive Director
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Member of the Remuneration Committee

Victor is an independent corporate finance adviser. He has advised
on many mining company ESOPs, including African Rainbow
Minerals Limited, Anglo Platinum Limited, Gold Fields Limited and
Northam Platinum, and black economic empowerment transactions
including NEF Asonge, Sasol Inzalo and Vodacom YeboYethu. Victor
has held various executive, directorship and board positions in retail,
corporate and investment banking and has worked for companies
including Standard Bank, ABSA, Stanlib and the National
Empowerment Fund. Victor joined the Board of Metorex as an
independent non-executive director in August 2009, and was
appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee in January 2012.

Jianke Gao (50)
Bachelor of Mining; Professor Level Senior Engineer
Non-executive Director
Member of the SHEC Committee

Mr Jianke Gao is a mining engineer with the Jinchuan Group Limited
and has 27 years’ mining technical and management experience. In
July 1984, Mr Gao received a Bachelor of Mining from Central-
South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has subsequently
achieved the qualification of Professor Level Senior Engineer. Mr
Gao was appointed to the position of General Manager Assistant of
the Jinchuan Group Limited in January 2009 and, before that, he
served as the Mine Manager of Mining Zone 2 of Jinchuan Group
Limited for six years. Since he joined the company in 1984, Mr Gao
has held a number of esteemed positions within the Jinchuan Group
Limited, including a period as the Assistant Chief Engineer and then
the Chief Engineer of the Longshou Mine of Jinchuan. He also
served as the Deputy Director of the Technical Centre of Jinchuan
and the Vice President of the Nickel and Cobalt Research and
Design Institute.

Tianpeng Gao (41)
BA (Engineering), EMBA
Non-executive Director
Member of the Audit Committee

Mr Tianpeng Gao is currently the general manager of the asset
management division of Jinchuan Group. For the past 16 years since
he joined Jinchuan Group, Mr Gao has served as the cost manager
of the finance division, finance manager of the international trading
arm and general manager of the risk management division of
Jinchuan Group. Mr Gao, currently the director of the overseas
investment projects and corporate merger and acquisition divisions,
has extensive experience in financial cost management, risk
management and asset management.

Xiaoyin Zhou (35)
BS (Law)
Non-executive Director
Member of the Audit Committee

Ms Xiaoyin Zhou obtained a bachelor’s degree in legal studies
from Lanzhou University of Finance in China in 1999 and joined the
Jinchuan Group in the same year. She obtained the Certificate of
Chinese Professional Legal Qualification in 2002 and acted as the
Company’s counsel on a long-term basis. Ms Zhou, as a business
executive, was involved in major overseas investment and finance
projects of Jinchuan Group. She has a good understanding of the
operation of international mining projects and has extensive
professional knowledge and experience.

Board committee members