BSc Eng (Met), BSc Eng (Mining).
Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, Sasol Limited.

• Joined Sasol in 1971 and became a Group General Manager of Sasol Limited in 1985, Chief Executive Officer of Polifin Limited in 1993, Chief Operating Officer of Sasol Limited in 1996, Chief Executive of Sasol Limited in 1997 and Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman of Sasol Limited in 2001.
• Was Sunday Times Businessman of the Year in 2001 and received the Frans du Toit Medal for Business Leadership from the SA Academy of Science and Art in 2001, the Wits Business School Management Excellence Award in 2002, the M. S. Louw Award from the Afrikaans Handelsinstituut in 2002, the Brig. Stokes Award from the SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 2003 and the Unisa School of Business Leadership Award for Leadership in Practice in 2003.