– UK, London – Anglo American plc (LON: AAL) today announced the appointment of John Heasley as Finance Director, to succeed Stephen Pearce who will retire.
John Heasley is expected to join Anglo American and its Executive Leadership Team by no later than the end of 2023, before joining the Board as an executive director and taking over as Finance Director.
“John Heasley brings great breadth of experience to the role of Finance Director and we look forward to welcoming him onto our Board,” said Board Chairman, Stuart Chambers.
Duncan Wanblad, Chief Executive added: “I am delighted that we will be welcoming John Heasley to Anglo American as Finance Director. John brings proven financial, strategic, and commercial expertise, coupled with hands-on operational experience of supporting sustainable mining through technology as a major supplier to the mining industry over the last 15 years.”
About John Heasley
John Heasley has served as the CFO of The Weir Group PLC, the FTSE100-listed global engineering company, since 2016. As CFO, John has played a significant role in Weir’s transformation to focus on mining and the strategic delivery of technologies that improve productivity and sustainability in the mining industry, as well as driving performance improvement programs.
John Heasley said “I’m proud and excited to be appointed Finance Director of Anglo American, one of the world’s stand-out mining companies. As CFO of a major supplier to the mining industry, I have for many years been passionate about the role of technology, innovation, and operational excellence in helping to fundamentally change the future of mining. The metals and minerals from mining have never been more essential and our focus must continue to be on getting those products to market in the most cost-effective and responsible way.”
About Anglo American
Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world that meet the fast-growing everyday demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move, and market our products to our customers – safely and sustainably.
As a responsible producer of copper, nickel, platinum group metals, diamonds (through De Beers), and premium quality iron ore and steelmaking coal – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as corporate leaders. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.
Source: https://www.angloamerican.com/
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