Tom Dale

Chief Executive Officer

BSc Hons (Mining Engineering); MBA

Mr. Dale was appointed as CEO and a director of Platmin on 1st December 2009. He started his career as a miner with JCI in 1973 and was awarded the prestigious Ronnie Wilton scholarship in 1979. During his 15 year career with JCI, he held senior line management positions at the Randfontein Estates and Western Areas gold mines and Tavistock collieries. In 1987 he joined a stockbroking firm at the JSE, becoming a rated gold analyst the following year and head of investment research thereafter. In 1991 Mr. Dale joined the industrial minerals division of Gencor to work with Keeley granite. Later in this decade he was appointed as FD and then MD of the gold division. After the merger of the gold assets of Gencor and GFSA to form Gold Fields Ltd, he was appointed as MD of that company and led the team which turned it around to profitability. In 2000 Mr. Dale joined Mopani Copper Mines in Zambia as CEO for a 20-month contract and before joining Platmin was the CEO of Sallies, a local fluorspar producer since early 2007.

Casper Badenhorst

General Manager: Pilanesburg Platinum Mine

B-Tech Degree Geology (Pr Sci Nat)

Casper Badenhorst was appointed General Manager of Platmin’s Pilanesberg Platinum Mine on 6 January 2010. Prior to this, Casper spent five years with Sallies’ Witkop mine, before assuming the position of General Manager of Witkop in 2007. He also spent two years in Botswana managing a gold mining operation on behalf of a mining contracting company. Casper has 15 years’ experience in the fields of geology, mining and mineral extraction.

Craig Shaw

Incoming Chief financial officer (from 1 May 2011)

B.Comm Law, B.Comm Accounting and B.Comm Honours, LLB, Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) CA(SA) Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK

Mr Shaw was appointed as chief financial officer (CFO) to the board of Platmin Limited with effect from 1 May 2011. He is the previous past Joint Head of the Natural Resources/Mining Corporate Finance team at Investec Corporate Finance, a division of Investec Bank Limited.

From 2007 to 2008 Mr Shaw was appointed to Cunico, a multinational multi-commodity mining group, as Finance Director, in preparation for a main board listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Prior to 2007 Mr Shaw was responsible for the international corporate finance and private equity investments of a private global resource group with exposure to various geographies and commodities, where he was involved in a number of significant transactions in the natural resources space including various public capital market transactions.