Managemenrt

& BOD

Nicholas J Holland (49)
Chief Executive Officer
BComm, BAcc, Witwatersrand; CA(SA)
Mr Holland has been an executive director of Gold Fields since 14 April 1998 and became chief executive officer on 1 May 2008. He served as executive director of finance from April 1998. On 15 April 2002, his title changed to chief financial officer until 30 April 2008. He has 28 years’ experience in financial management. Prior to joining Gold Fields, he was financial director and senior manager of corporate finance of Gencor Limited. He is also a director of Rand Refinery Limited.


Glenn R Baldwin (36)
Executive Vice President: Head of West Africa and Australia
BEng (Hons) Mining
Mr Baldwin was appointed executive vice president: head of international operations on 1 April 2007. Prior to his appointment at Gold Fields, Mr Baldwin was the chief operating officer at Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Limited. After finishing his degree, Mr Baldwin spent seven years in Australia developing his mining skills. Coming to South Africa, he further developed his technical and operational skills in various roles within the Anglo American Group and thereafter as the vice president operations for Southern Platinum Limited.


Italia Boninelli (52)
Senior Vice President: Head of Human Resources
MA, Witwatersrand; PDLR, Unisa SBL
Mrs Boninelli was appointed to the position of senior vice president, human resources of Gold Fields on 8 January 2007. She is also the chairperson of the Gold Fields Leadership Business Academy. Prior to that, she was group human resources director of Netcare, the largest private healthcare organisation in South Africa. She previously held senior human resources, marketing and communications positions in Standard Bank and Sappi.


Jimmy WD Dowsley (50)
Senior Vice President: Corporate Development
BSc (Mining Engineering), Witwatersrand
Mr Dowsley was appointed as senior vice president, corporate development on 15 April 2002. Prior to this appointment, Mr Dowsley was general manager of corporate development. He also served as general manager of new business and a manager of the Mineral Economics Division of Gold Fields of South Africa Limited.


Cain Farrel (58)
Corporate Secretary
FCIS, MBA, Southern Cross University, Australia
Mr Farrel was appointed corporate secretary on 1 May 2003. Mr Farrel is past-president and a director of the Southern African Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Previously, Mr Farrel served as senior divisional secretary of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.


Michael D Fleischer (47)
General Counsel
Bachelor Procurationis, University of the Witwatersrand. Admitted as attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1991 Advanced Taxation Certificate, University of South Africa
Mr Fleischer was appointed General Counsel in the Executive division with effect from 1 November 2006. Prior to his appointment, Mr Fleischer was a partner in the corporate services department at Webber Wentzel, a major law firm in South Africa, and has extensive experience in advising on mergers and acquisitions transactions in South Africa and worldwide (where transactions involve a South African element). Mr Fleischer has a wide range of experience in mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, mining law and Stock Exchange requirements. While in practice he was ranked as one of South Africa's leading commercial lawyers by Chambers Global (the world's leading lawyers for business).


J Willie Jacobsz (47)
Senior Vice President: Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs
BA, Rand Afrikaans University
Mr Jacobsz joined the Gold Fields executive committee in June 2002 as head of investor relations, corporate affairs and sustainable development, the latter of which he relinquished in December 2007. He joined the Gold Fields Group in 1989 as head of the Gold Fields Foundation and has subsequently held various positions in the fields of transformation, corporate affairs, investor relations and sustainable development.

Tommy D McKeith (44)
Executive Vice President: Exploration and Business Development
BSc Hons (Geology), GDE (Mining), MBA , University of Witwatersrand in South Africa
Mr McKeith was appointed to the position of executive vice president: exploration and business development on 1 October 2007. Prior to this appointment Mr. McKeith was the chief executive officer of Troy Resources NL, an Australian junior gold producer. Before joining Troy, he worked for over 15 years with Gold Fields and its predecessors in various mine geology, exploration and business development positions. These included regional manager Australasia and vice president business development, based in Denver. Tommy is currently based in Perth.

Vishnu Pillay (51)
Executive Vice President: South African Operations
BSc, MSc at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujurat, India
Mr Pillay was appointed executive vice president: head of South African Operations from 1 May 2008. He was formerly senior consultant, Mine Planning and Resources Management and apart from a brief period with the CSIR where he held the positions of executive director: CSIR Mining Technology and group executive: Institutional Planning and Operations, he has had 22 years of service with Gold Fields.

Paul A Schmidt (41)
Acting Chief Financial Officer
BComm, Witwatersrand; BCompt (Hons), Unisa; CA(SA)
Mr Schmidt was appointed acting chief financial officer on 1 May 2008. Prior to this appointment, Mr Schmidt was financial controller for the Group. He has more than twelve years’ experience in the mining industry.

Alan J Wright (67)°
Chairman
CA(SA)
Mr Wright was appointed non-executive chairman of the Board on 17 November 2005. Prior to that, Mr Wright had been deputy chairman of Gold Fields since November 1997. Prior to September 1998, Mr Wright was the chief executive officer of Gold Fields of South Africa Limited. Mr Wright holds no other directorships.

Executive Directors
Nicholas J Holland (49)*
Chief Executive Officer
BComm, BAcc, Witwatersrand; CA(SA)
Mr Holland has been an executive director of Gold Fields since 14 April 1998 and became chief executive officer on 1 May 2008. He served as executive director of finance from April 1998. On 15 April 2002, his title changed to chief financial officer until 30 April 2008. He has 28 years’ experience in financial management. Prior to joining Gold Fields, he was financial director and senior manager of corporate finance of Gencor Limited. He is also a director of Rand Refinery Limited.


Non-executive Directors
Kofi Ansah (64)°
BSc (Mech Eng) UST Ghana; MSc (Metallurgy) Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Mr Ansah was appointed a director on 2 April 2004. He is a director of Ecobank (Ghana) Limited and Aluwoks Limited.


John G Hopwood (60)°
BComm, CA(SA)
Mr Hopwood was appointed a director on 15 February 2006. Previous experience includes being a director and head of the Mergers and Acquisitions division at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance, and he was an executive director of Gold Fields of South Africa Limited from January 1992 to September 1998. Mr Hopwood is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Africa Mining Fund and chairman of the Fund’s Investment Committee, and a non-executive director of Pan African Resources Plc.


Gill Marcus (59)*
BComm
Prof Marcus was appointed a director of Gold Fields on 14 February 2007. She served as a member of the ANC National Executive Committee from 1991 to 1999 and Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1999. Prof Marcus served as deputy minister of Finance from 1996 to 1999. She served as deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank from 1999 to 2004. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Policy, Leadership and Gender Studies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. From November 2005 to March 2007, Prof Marcus was executive chairperson of gold mining company Western Areas. In 2007 she was appointed non-executive chairperson of the ABSA Group. Prof Marcus also serves in a non-executive capacity on the board of the International Marketing Council, the Advisory Board of the Auditor-General and the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. She is patron of the Pretoria Sungardens Hospice and the Working on Fire Programme, a supporter of the Johannesburg Children’s Home and a member of the Millennium Labour Council.


Richard P Menell (53)˚
BA (Honors), MA, Trinity College, Cambridge; M.Sc. (Mineral Exploration and Management) Stanford University

Mr Menell was appointed a director on 8 October 2008, and has over 30 years experience in the mining industry. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of TEAL Exploration & Mining Inc. until 1 May 2008, and Chairman of Avgold Limited from its founding in 1996 until May 2004. Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anglovaal Mining Limited (now African Rainbow Minerals Limited) from 1996 to 2004, the President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa from 1999 to 2001 and a member of its Executive Council from 1996 to 2005. He is a director of African Rainbow Minerals, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Standard Bank Group Limited, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited, National Business Trust and the National Business Initiative. He also serves as chairman of Bateman Engineering B.V. which is listed on the London AIM Exchange.


David N Murray OBE (63)°
BA Hons Econ; MBA (UCT)
Mr Murray joined the Board on 1 January 2008. He has more than 35 years’ experience in the mining industry and has been chief executive officer of Rio Tinto Portugal, Rio Tinto Brazil, TVX Gold INC, Avgold Limited and Avmin Limited. He is also a non-executive director of Ivernia Inc.


Donald MJ Ncube (61)°
BA Economics and Political Science, Fort Hare University; Post Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations, Strathclyde
University, Scotland; Graduate MSc Manpower Studies, University of Manchester; Diploma in Financial Management
Mr Ncube was appointed a director of Gold Fields on 15 February 2006. Previously, he was an alternate director of Anglo American Industrial Corporation Limited and Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited, a director of AngloGold Ashanti Limited as well as non-executive chairman of South African Airways. He is currently chairman of Rare Holdings Limited, chairman of Badimo Gas, executive director of Cincinnati Mining S.A., a director of Manhattan Operations Douglas, and he serves on the boards of various other companies.


Rupert L Pennant-Rea (60)°
BA, Trinity College Dublin; MA, University of Manchester
Mr Pennant-Rea has been a director of Gold Fields since 1 July 2002. He is chairman of Henderson Group plc and is a director of First Quantum Minerals, Go-Ahead Group, Times Newspapers Limited and a number of other companies. Previously he was editor of The Economist and deputy governor of the Bank of England.


Chris I von Christierson (60)°
BComm, Rhodes; MA, Cambridge
Mr von Christierson has been a director of Gold Fields since 10 May 1999. As a result of the takeover by Lundin Mining he stepped down as the chairman of Rio Narcea Gold Mines Limited on 18 July 2007. He is currently a director of Southern Prospecting (UK) Limited and Transdek (UK) Limited.

Gayle M Wilson (63)°
BCom, BCompt (Hons); CA(SA)
Mrs Wilson was appointed a director on 1 August 2008. She was previously an audit partner at Ernst & Young for 16 years where her main focus was on mining clients. In 1998 she was involved in AngloGold’s listing on the NYSE and in 2001 she took over as the lead partner on the global audit. Other mining clients during her career include Northam, Aquarius, Avmin (later ARM) and certain Anglo Platinum operations. She is a non-executive director of Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Resources Limited.

* Non-independent director
° Independent director