Kuseni Dlamini

Chair and Independent non-executive director

• BSocSci (honours) (cum laude)
• MPhil from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar

Appointed: 1 July 2023

Committee Responsibilities: Member of the mergers and acquisitions- and member of the remuneration and nomination committees.

Appointed as an independent non-executive director and chair of the board of directors of Alexforbes (Board), Nominations committee and member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Remuneration committees of the Company with effect from 1 July 2023 and serve as a non-executive director and chair of the board of directors of Alexander Forbes Investments Limited.

His prior executive positions include CEO of Old Mutual South Africa and Emerging Markets, Head of Anglo American South Africa, member of the Executive Committee of Anglo American plc, director of Anglo American Platinum, executive chair of the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) and chair of Anglo Operations Proprietary Limited. As part of his career in mining, he held several senior positions at Anglo Gold Ashanti Limited and De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Kuseni currently serves as the chair of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited, Sandvik Mining Southern Africa Holdings and Fedgroup Holdings and Tennant Group. He is the lead independent director of the JSE-listed fintech, Capital Appreciation Limited.

In the non-profit space, he serves as co-chair of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Chair of the University of Pretoria Council and is the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa and a member of the Southern Africa-Canada Chamber of Commerce Board.