Board of Directors
01 | Willy Strothotte, aged 63, has been Chairman of Xstrata since February 2002. From 1961 to 1978 Mr Strothotte held various positions with responsibility for international trading in metals and minerals in Germany, Belgium and the USA. In 1978, Mr Strothotte joined Glencore International, taking up the position of Head of Metals and Minerals in 1984. Mr Strothotte was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Glencore in 1993 and held the combined positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 until 2001, when the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive were split. Mr Strothotte has been Chairman of Xstrata AG since 1994, is the Chairman of Glencore International and is currently a director of Century Aluminium Corporation and Minara Resources Limited.
02 | Mick Davis, aged 50, is the Chief Executive of Xstrata. Mr Davis was appointed as Chief Executive of Xstrata AG in October 2001, and was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002. Previously, Mr Davis was Chief Financial Officer and an executive director of Billiton Plc, appointed in July 1997, and served as Executive Chairman of Ingwe Coal Corporation Limited from 1995. He joined Gencor Limited in early 1994 from Eskom, the South African state-owned electricity utility, where he was an executive director.
03 | David Rough, aged 57, was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in April 2002, is Deputy Chairman, the Senior Independent director and Chairman of the Nominations Committee. Mr Rough was a director of Legal & General Group Plc before retiring in June 2002. As Group director (Investments), Mr Rough headed all aspects of fund management within Legal & General Investments. Mr Rough is currently a director of Land Securities plc and Brown, Shipley & Co Ltd.
04 | Ivan Glasenberg, aged 51, was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002. Mr Glasenberg is Chief Executive Officer of Glencore International, which he joined in 1984. He worked in the coal department of Glencore in South Africa for three years and in Australia for two years. From 1989 to 1990, he managed Glencore International’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices. In 1991 he became Head of the Glencore Coal Department and in 2002 Chief Executive Officer of Glencore International. He is also currently a director of Minara Resources Limited.
05 | Paul Hazen, aged 66, was appointed a director of Xstrata in February 2002. Mr Hazen is a former Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo and Company from which he retired in April 2001 as Chairman after a 30-year career with the bank. He was also a director of Phelps Dodge Corporation until February 2003 and Deputy Chairman and Lead Independent director of Vodafone Group Plc until July 2006. Mr Hazen is currently Chairman of Accel-KKR and of KKR Financial Corp. He joined the Board of Xstrata AG in May 2000, serves as Lead Independent director of Safeway, Inc. and is a director of Willis Group Holdings Ltd.
06 | Robert MacDonnell, aged 70, was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002. Prior to joining Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1976, Mr MacDonnell was a Management Consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co. He subsequently formed his own firm, which specialised in small management buyouts. Mr MacDonnell became the first non-founding partner of KKR in 1982 and participated in virtually all investment decisions until the firm expanded in the late 1980s. Mr MacDonnell joined the Board of Xstrata AG in May 1997 and is also currently a director of Safeway, Inc.
07 | Trevor Reid, aged 47, is the Chief Financial Officer of Xstrata. Mr Reid joined Xstrata AG in January 2002, and was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002. Prior to joining Xstrata, he was Global Head of Resource Banking at the Standard Bank Group. He joined the Standard Bank Group in 1997 from Warrior International Limited, a corporate finance boutique specialising in the minerals sector.
08 | Sir Steve Robson CB, aged 64, was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee. Sir Steve retired as Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury in January 2001. He had joined HM Treasury after leaving university. His early career included a period as Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a two-year secondment to Investors in Industry plc (3i). From 1997 until his retirement, his responsibilities included the legal framework for regulation of the UK financial services industry, public private partnerships, procurement policy including the private finance initiative and the Treasury's enterprises and growth unit. Sir Steve is a director of JPMorgan Cazenove Holdings, Partnerships UK plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc.
09 | Ian Strachan, aged 64, was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in May 2003 and is the Chairman of the Health, Safety, Environment and Community Committee. Mr Strachan is a director of Reuters Group plc, Johnson Matthey plc, Rolls-Royce plc and Transocean Inc. Mr Strachan was Chairman of Instinet Group from 2003 to 2005 and Chief Executive of BTR plc from 1996 to 1999. Mr Strachan joined Rio Tinto plc (formerly RTZ plc) as CFO in 1987, and was Deputy Chief Executive from 1991 to 1995.
10 | Santiago Zaldumbide, aged 65, is an executive director of Xstrata, Chief Executive of Xstrata Zinc and Executive Chairman of Asturiana de Zinc. Mr Zaldumbide was appointed to the Board of Xstrata in February 2002. He is a previous Chief Executive Officer and director of Union Explosivos Rio Tinto and of Petroleos del Norte. In 1990, Petroleos del Norte became part of the Repsol Oil Group where Mr Zaldumbide was responsible for establishing the international structure of the enlarged Repsol Oil Group. In 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Corporación Industrial de Banesto and, in December 1997, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Asturiana de Zinc. Mr Zaldumbide is also a member of the European Advisory Council of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and a director of ThyssenKrupp SA.
