Mark Cutifani (born 2 May 1958)Mark Cutifani
miningweekly.com, accessed: 9 July 2010 is an Australian businessman and the former

chief executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of diversified mining group,

Anglo American plc Anglo American plc is a British listed multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper ...

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Cutifani is a non-executive director of

Anglo American Platinum Anglo American Platinum Limited () is the world's largest primary producer of platinum, accounting for about 38% of the world's annual supply. Based in South Africa, most of the group's operations lie to the northwest and northeast of Johannesbu ...

, and chairman of

De Beers De Beers Group is an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and ...

. He is also a Non-Executive Director of

Total S.A. TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and ...

He was formerly CEO of South African

gold mining Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface, ...

company

AngloGold Ashanti AngloGold Ashanti Limited is a global gold mining company. It was formed in 2004 by the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. It is now a global gold producer with 21 operations on four continents. The company is listed ...

. Cutifani is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a board member of the Hydrogen Council., recipient of the AusIMM Institute Medal. and Mines and Money Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

Early life and education

Cutifani was born and grew up in

Wollongong Wollongong ( ), colloquially referred to as The Gong, is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near w ...

, Australia. After leaving high school in 1976, he joined Coal Cliff colliery and enrolled in the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

to complete a degree in

Mining Engineering Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from underneath, open pit, above or on the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, a ...

. He graduated in 1982Mark Cutifani
University of Wollongong website, accessed: 9 July 2010 at the top of his class.Anglo turns to an Aussie miner to dig it out of a $6bn hole

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, published: 21 July 2013, website accessed: 6 May 2014 He was also the winner of numerous awards including the Atlas Copco Travelling Bursary for the top mining student in Australasia in 1982.

Career

Early career

After working for Coal Cliff, he joined Kalgoorlie Gold Mines, and later the

Western Mining Corporation Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

Normandy Mining Normandy Mining was an Australian mining company which predominantly mined gold. Normandy was, during much of the late 20th century, Australia's largest gold miner.

and

Sons of Gwalia Sons of Gwalia was a Western Australian mining company that mined gold, tantalum, spodumene, lithium and tin. It was Australia's third-largest gold producer and also controlled more than half the world's production of tantalum, He became the managing director of Sons of Gwalia in March 2000. In October 2006, Cutifani was appointed chief operating officer for Inco Limited and then

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's global Nickel business, based in Canada.

AngloGold Ashanti

On 17 September 2007, he joined AngloGold Ashanti as a director of the company, and was appointed chief executive officer on 1 October that year. Cutifani was credited with dismantling

's significant and toxic hedge book, allowing the company to benefit fully from the much higher gold spot price. Shortly after joining

, Cutifani introduced a campaign called "Safety is our first value". During his tenure, the fatality rate was reduced by 50%.

Anglo American

In January 2013 it was announced that Cutifani would become the new chief executive of

, starting his new role on 3 April 2013, replacing Cynthia Carroll. Since joining Anglo American, he has led a transformation of the Company. Notable improvements per the 2019 annual results: * Safety – 73% reduction in fatalities and 59% improvement in accident frequency rates. * Occupational Health – 81% drop in new cases. * Environmental Incidents - 97% drop in major incidents. * Production – increased by 12%, whilst reducing the number of assets from 68 to 36. * Costs – improved by 45% in real terms to return the business to a global leadership cost position. * Mining EBITDA margin - increased by 40%. * ROCE of 19%. * Sustainability – announced a Sustainable Mining Plan in 2018 to significantly improve energy and water efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote biodiversity. * In response to carbon footprint reductions, Cutifani announced a target of achieving

carbon neutrality Carbon neutrality is a state of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. This can be achieved by balancing emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal (often through carbon offsetting) or by eliminating emissions from society (the transition to the "p ...

for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2040, with some operations achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

Appointments and current memberships

Cutifani is the former chair and now an executive board member of the International Council on Mining and Metals. He is currently an Executive Member, having been President of South Africa’s Chamber of Mines between 2012 and 2013 (renamed as the Minerals Council South Africa). He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Kellogg Innovation Network, a member of the Mining & Metals Steering Board and former Governor (now member) of the Mining and Metals Industry Programme for the World Economic Forum. Cutifani serves on the Board of the Hydrogen Council, a global initiative of leading energy, transport and industry companies with a united vision and long-term ambition for hydrogen to foster the

energy transition The energy transition is the process of downshifting fossil fuels and re-developing whole systems to operate on low carbon energy sources. More generally, an energy transition is a significant structural change in an energy system regarding ...

. Cutifani is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Vale Columbia Centre on Sustainable International Investment and an independent Director of The Power of Nutrition; a UK-based charitable foundation He is also an Independent Director of Total S.A and a member of UK Home Secretary’s Business Against Slavery Forum.

Previous memberships

Cutifani is a former member of the following institutions: * World Gold Council – Member of Board * South African Chamber of Mines – Elimination of Fatalities Taskforce Leader (2013). * Business Leadership of South Africa (BLSA) – Executive Council Member. * Laurentian University (Canada) – Board of Governors. * Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: ** Councillor (South Australia) ** Member of Ethics Committee ** Member of Mineral Valuation Committee * University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT-GSB) – Member of Advisory Board. * University of Pretoria – Member of Mining Advisory Committee. * India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Business Council Steering Committee – Member. * Western Australian Chamber of Mines – Member of Executive Committee. * Ontario Mining Association – Member of Executive Committee. * Minerals Advisory Committee of Canada – Member. * CSIRO Minerals Sector Advisory Committee (Australia)– Member. * Foundation and Lead Industry Member for establishment of Centre for Exploration and Mining Innovation (CEMI) in Canada (Laurentian University) in 2006.

Recognition & Awards

Cutifani has won numerous academic and community awards including: * Western Mining Corporation Awards for best student (1980). * Bachelor of Engineering (Hons 1), University of Wollongong (1982). * Western Mining Award for best graduating student (1982). * Western Mining Award for best thesis in mining (1982). * Atlas Copco Travelling Bursary for best student in Australasia (1982). * Seco Titan Coal Industry Award for Excellence in Design (1984). * Diggers and Dealers Digger of the Year – KCGM (1992). * United Way Charity Drive Leader – Sudbury, Canada (2006). * Paul Harris Fellowship Award (Rotary Group) for Services to Community, Sudbury, Canada (2006). * Institute of People Management (IPM), South Africa – Runner up SA CEO of the Year (2011) in recognition of innovation in change management in a major listed company. *Honorary Chair – World Mining Congress, Montreal (2013). * Engineers Australia Magazine - listed amongst the Top 100 influential engineers in Australia (2013 and 2014). * Silver Award – Thomas Edison Global Innovation Award – Industry Collaboration (Co-Chair – Kellogg Innovation Network Development Partner Framework). * Australia Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) - Institute Medal (2021) *Australia Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) – Fellow. * Honorary Doctorate – Business Administration (Safety and Community Engagement), Wollongong University (2013). * Diggers and Dealers Lifetime Achievement Award (2015). * The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) – Fellow (2015). * Engineering Council – Chartered Engineer (2015). * Honorary Doctorate – Doctor in Laws – Laurentian University in Canada (2016). * Royal Academy of Engineering – Fellow (2017). * Technoserve 50th Anniversary Honouree – In honour of “extraordinary leadership in creating sustainable business solutions to end poverty around the world.” Honoured in NYC in October 2018 along with the Chairman of Coca-Cola. * European CEO Awards – Best CEO in Sustainable Mining (2018) * Engineers Australia – Fellowship and Chartered status in the Leadership and Management College and APEC Engineer (2019). * South Africa Mining Industry – Inducted into the Mining Hall of Fame (2019) * Mines and Money – CEO of the Year; Global Mining Company of the Year (2019) *AusIMM – Institute Medal (2021) *Mines and Money – Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)

Private life

Cutifani has seven children from two marriages.

References

External links

AngloGold Ashanti Homepage
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