Marna Cloete is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Pretoria. In 2006, Marna joined Ivanhoe Mines, and in 2009 she was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and to President in 2020.
Marna played an instrumental role as part of the Ivanhoe leadership team achieving a number of strategic milestones, as well as listing the Company on the TSX and concluding multiple strategic partnerships and financings with inter alia a Japanese consortium led by Itochu, Zijin Mining and CITIC Metal. She also serves on the Board of Centamin plc as an independent non-executive director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. Prior to joining Ivanhoe, Marna forged her career at PwC in 2002, in the Metals and Mining division, subsequently moving on to Group Five Construction.
David an Heerden joined Ivanhoe Mines in 2011 and has assumed progressively senior responsibilities in finance. Prior to being promoted to Chief Financial Officer in November 2021, he was Ivanhoe's Vice President, Finance, Treasury and Tax since October 2019. He has more than 10 years of experience in financial, treasury, and tax management with a focus on global resources and mining.
Prior to joining Ivanhoe Mines, David was in the assurance division of Ernst & Young Inc. in Johannesburg, South Africa principally dealing with mining and construction clients.
David is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor and an Honours degree in Chartered Accountancy.
Mark Farren worked at Ivanhoe Mines as Executive Vice President, Operations, between June 2014 and October 2019. As development commenced on Phase 1 of the Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex, Mr. Farren was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Kamoa Copper Joint Venture to lead it through construction and commissioning. Prior to joining Ivanhoe, Mr. Farren served a total of 22 years, in progressively senior roles, in the South African operations of Johannesburg-based Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), culminating in his appointment as the group’s Head of Mining.
Dr. Patricia Makhesha joined Ivanhoe’s 64%-owned South African subsidiary, Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd., in September 2014. As Managing Director of Ivanhoe’s Platreef Project, she oversees the development of relationships with diverse communities in the vicinity of the planned Flatreef Mine in South Africa, and manages project relations with a broad group of stakeholders.
She has served on the boards of GlaxoSmithKline, Rand Water Board, Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, Construction Industry Development Board, South African Broadcasting Corporation and Co-operative Bank Development Agency. She was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MMMS Consulting. Other positions during her 25-year career have included Senior Executive, Transformation and Human Capital Management at South African Forestry Company; Group Corporate Manager with Global Forest Products; Manager of Marketing and Communication at South African banker ABSA Group; and news and current affairs journalist with the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Dr. Makhesha holds a Doctorate and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from MU Business School and has completed executive development programs at the University of Cape Town, Harvard University and WITS business schools.
Peter Zhou is Executive Vice President, Chief Representative China of Ivanhoe Mines. Mr. Zhou joined Ivanhoe Mines after a career at BMO Capital Markets where he participated and executed more than 10 Chinese cross-border M&A and financing projects, with a total transaction size of ~30 billion US dollars. He has extensive experience in capital markets, insightful knowledge of regulatory procedures and a broad network of business relationships in China.
Since joining Ivanhoe Mines, Mr. Zhou has established Ivanhoe’s China entity and been actively bridging Chinese elements in supporting the development of Ivanhoe’s mining projects in Africa. He played a key role in multiple strategic investments from Zijin Mining and CITIC Metal, generated a total proceeds of over 1.5 billion US dollars for Ivanhoe Mines since 2015. Mr. Zhou graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor degree in Finance and Mathematics.
Pierre Joubert is a Mining Engineer with more than 41 years experience in building and managing underground mines in Coal, Gold, Platinum and Base Metals across Southern Africa.
He has extensive experience in mechanised mining, shaft sinking, mining production and bringing new mines into production.
During his career, he assumed progressively senior responsibilities in the operations of the then Anglo American Gold Division in mine production and planning, research and development and starting the multi-billion rand Moab Khutsong Shaft Sinking Project in the early 1990’s. At Grinaker LTA Mining Contracting (Part of Aveng Group) he was the Managing Director from 1995 to 2001 leading major mining contracts across multi mining commodities and jurisdictions across Africa before joining Anglo American Platinum as Divisional Mining Engineer in 2001. At Anglo American Platinum he established and was head of Capital Development Services providing mine expansion teams and services across the group. Later he was appointed as head of Asset Optimisation where he implemented cost savings and production, safety and efficiency enhancements across own managed mines in the group.
Following the experience at Anglo American Platinum he was appointment as the Operations Executive at African Rainbow Minerals in 2011 responsible for the project management, commissioning and ramping up to full production the newly established Copper Division in a joint venture between ARM and Vale in Zambia.
Mr. Joubert joined Ivanhoe Mines in July 2017 as the General Manager leading a team of experts and DRC nationals on the dewatering, rehabilitation and preparation for production of the historical Kipushi Mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In June 2020, he was appointed as Vice President Technical Services for the Ivanhoe Mines Group and besides a focus on mine technical services he is also passionate about modernising mines through innovation and minimising mining’s impact on the environment producing green metals in a responsible and safe way.
Mr. Joubert holds a Mining Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and a Mine Managers Certificate of Competence for South African Metalliferous Mines, he also completed Management and Executive Development Programs from the University of South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Steve Amos has over 30 years of mining industry experience. He started his career working for the Anglo American group, where he spent 16 years working in the areas of precious metals processing in South Africa and copper processing in Zambia. He then spent 6 years at Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) specialist AMEC Minproc (now called Wood Group). Here he fulfilled the role of Technical Manager, responsible for process engineering and feasibility studies on various projects.
Mr. Amos joined Ivanhoe Mines in 2011 in the position of Vice President, Metallurgy, where he was responsible for flowsheet development and process engineering for the Kamoa, Platreef and Kipushi projects, as well as various studies. He was later transferred to Kamoa Copper as, Executive, Projects, where he has spent the last 8 years responsible for the execution of the Kamoa phase 1 and phase 2 projects and currently the phase 3 expansion.
At the beginning of 2023 Steve was promoted to Executive Vice President, Projects for Ivanhoe Mines responsible for execution of the Kamoa, Platreef and Kipushi projects.
Mr. Amos holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Applied Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Metallurgy from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
