Louis van Niekerk

Louis van Niekerk is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Master's Degree in Commerce. He has extensive management and business experience over many years, particularly in the steel industry. He has led major re-engineering projects at both Iscor and Transnet. The re-engineering at Iscor Steel allowed Iscor to unbundle its operations into Iscor Limited which retained the steel operations (now ArcelorMittal) and Kumba Limited, consisting of the mining operations. During Louis tenure as CEO, the then Saldanah greenfield steel project was planned and built. Louis has extensive project management experience in major capital projects.

Gonzalo Urquijo

Graduate in Economics and Political Sciences of Yale University (USA) and MBA from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. 1984-1992: variety of positions at Citibank and Crédit Agricole; 1992-1998: CFO and later Co-CEO of Aristrain; 1989-2002: CFO of Aceralia; 2002-2006: EVP of the Operational Unit South of the Flat Carbon Steel sector, followed by SEVP & Head of the functional directorates of distribution, before being CFO and SEVP for Finance, Purchasing, IT, Legal Affairs, Investor Relations, Arcelor Steel Solutions and Services of Arcelor; 2006- Member of the GMB of ArcelorMittal, currently responsible for AACIS (excluding China and India), Distribution Solutions, Tubular Products, Corporate Responsibility, Investment Allocation Committee (IAC) Chairman

Leon Price

Joined Leo Raphaely & Sons in 1978. Joined Macsteel on their effective takeover of Leo Raphaely & Sons in 1982. Positions held in Iscor/Macsteel: 1980 - General Manager, Far East Commodities & Trading; 1982 - Marketing Director; 1984 - Managing Director; 1984 - Managing Director (Trading). He was appointed as Managing Director at Trans Orient Steel Ltd in 1985. Director to Macsteel Holdings (Pty) Ltd Board in 1988. In 1990 he was appointed as President - International Steel Trading - Macsteel Group, then Joint Deputy Chairman - Steel Trading Macsteel Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Appointed as Joint Deputy Chairman - International Steel Trading, Macsteel Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Executive Director Macsteel International Holdings B.V. 1996 - Present.

Salvatore Purpura

Sal graduated from Baruch College in New York in 1979, New York with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. After graduation Sal joined Eisner & Lubin LLP, a CPA firm in Manhattan and obtained his Certified Public Accountant license. In 1983, Sal entered the commodities business when he moved to Associated Metals & Minerals, which was subsequently acquired by the Macsteel Group in 1986. In 1991, Sal was named Chief Financial Officer of Macsteel International USA Corp and then as its Chief Executive Officer in 1996. In 2010, Sal was named Chief Executive Officer of Macsteel International Trading Group (MIT).

Robert Muirhead

Robert Muirhead entered the shipping business 30 years ago.

He commenced his shipping carrier in the early 1980s. From 1980 to 1982 he worked as a trainee for various shipping companies, Galbraith Wrightson, London, England, Ben Line Steamers, Edinburgh, Scotland and Anglo Eastern Shipping, Hong Kong.

After completing his training in 1982 he was employed by Anglo Eastern as a shipbroker on secondment from Galbraith Wrightson, initially for 3 months, subsequently employed on a permanent basis. Activities involved all-round shipping touching on ship owning, ship management and ship agencies although mainly involved in the ship broking department. This was on the dry cargo side doing sales and purchase and chartering with some tanker experience. During the last two years took over exclusive chartering of the Group's owned and controlled tonnage numbering up to 14 vessels (Bulk Carriers, Tweendeckers and a ULCC).

In 1986 he joined Argosy Chartering in Hong Kong as a Director and formed a new broking company together with two other partners concentrating on dry cargo chartering, sales and purchase. Also heavily involved in the formation of a semi-break-bulk liner service from China to South Africa.

From 1988 to 1990 he was employed by Kellett Shipbrokers in Hong Kong as a Director. He formed a new broking company in partnership with a large ship owning company. Other than involvement with fixing of Group vessels, the company's activities were the same as those of Argosy Chartering below.

In 1990 he was employed by Acadia Shipbrokers in Montreal, Canada. He started on the chartering side of the operating company as a ship broker, made a Director January 1992. The company operated up to 30 vessels on period and voyage time charter. I was actively involved in soliciting and subsequent fixing of cargoes (especially steel) from the various trading companies, fixing in of tonnage covering these requirements and fixing of period tonnage making particular use of my contacts in the Far East. Main areas of involvement were Great Lakes, Canada, USA, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Black Sea Countries and Continent to the Far East.

In 1994 he joined MUR Shipping. He was employed to develop and expand Macsteel shipping activities using the group traded cargoes as the base. The core of this was the Iscor steel exports from South Africa. Trade routes into and out of Southern Africa were developed including breakbulk liner services. Once a strong regional position had been realised the group expanded into other regions developing new bulk and breakbulk trades.

During this period he started handling the day to day chartering therafter becoming a Director then Managing Director and Group CEO. The company was headquartered in Johannesburg and expanded operations were handled through new offices being formed in Sydney, Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, Vancouver and Bombay. Cargo carried grew from 1 million to 25 million tons. Controlled fleet grew to 90-110 vessels at any one time this included long term charters and acquisitions. Turnover exceeds USD 700 million. Employees reached over 150. New business units were realised including brokerage, logistics, vessel agency and NVOCC.

In 2005 he was relocated, following the transfer of the MUR Shipping Head Office to Dubai

Adriaan Veltema

Honorary degree in tax law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. International tax manager at Arthur Andersen Amsterdam 1985 through 1995. Joined the Macsteel Group as tax director in November 1995. Director Macsteel Global B.V. 1996 – present. Director and company secretary Macsteel International Holdings B.V. 1996 – present. Director Macsteel International Business Support Services B.V. 2003 – present.

Davinder Chugh

LLB, MBA 1977-1988 : Junior, Assistant, Deputy Manager, Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL) 1988-1995 : Manager and later Senior Manager (Commercial), Corporate Purchasing Group Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), New Delhi, India 1995-1998 : General Manager (Purchasing), Ispat Hamburg 1998-2000 : General Manager (In-charge) – Purchasing, Ispat German Units- Hamburg and Duisburg 2000-May 2002 : Vice President (Purchasing), Ispat Europe Group South Africa May 2002 – Sept 2004 : Executive Director Commercial, ISCOR Limited South Africa Sept 2004 - Present : Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel South Africa (formerly Ispat Iscor Limited)

Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita

BSc (Hons)(Elec Eng), MSc (Elec Eng), MBA, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of ArcelorMittal South Africa with effect from 1 March 2008. She was previously Chief Officer: Mergers & Acquisitions at the Vodacom Group and prior to joining Vodacom served as CEO of Alliance Capital Management. She is the non-executive chairman of the Bond Exchange of SA and Arivia.Kom and a non-executive director at ACSIS.

Rudolph Torlage

B Accounting (University of Stellenbosch), B Comt Hons (UNISA), CA (SA), MDP (UNISA). Rudolph joined ArcelorMittal South Africa in 1989 and served in various managerial positions within finance until he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director to the Board on 3 September 2010. On 2 January 2013 Rudolph retired as executive director but will continue to report to the office of the Chief Executive Officer as General Manager, Strategy and Special Projects. Rudolph also serves as director on the board of various subsidiary companies of ArcelorMittal South Africa as well as a non-executive director of Coal of Africa Limited.

Sunil Kumar

General Manager of ArcelorMittal, was appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) - ArcelorMittal South Africa as from 1 March 2010 Sunil Kumar joined the Group in 2001 as Product Manager, Flat Products of the marketing arm of Mittal Steel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He became a General Manager – Sales & Marketing at the company’s China Representative Office in Beijing in 2004 where he managed four regional offices and domestic sales until March 2007. Sunil moved to Morocco in April 2007 as Managing Director of ArcelorMittal International in Casablanca. Sunil started his career as an Engineer at the Auto Paint Shop at Tata Motors in Pune, India, followed by a role as Joint General General Manager at Essar Steel Ltd in Mumbai, India. Sunil Kumar holds a B.Tech (Hons) degree in Manufacturing Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and a Post-Graduate diploma in International Trade from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi India.