Governance - Xstrata

External appointments: Non-executive director of Cobham plc, the
aerospace and defence group and Chairman of its Audit Committee.
Director and Chairman of BSN medical, a medical textiles business group
7. Claude Lamoureux
Title and age: Non-executive director, aged 68
Appointment: Appointed in May 2008
Committee membership: Member of Audit and Health, Safety,
Environment and Community Committees
Skills and experience: Mr. Lamoureux was President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board until
1 December 2007. Previously he spent 25 years as a financial
executive with Metropolitan Life in Canada and the US
External appointments: Director of Northumbrian Water Group plc,
Cordiant Capital, Glass Lewis, Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Atrium
Innovations Inc., the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
The Foundation for Investors Rights, The Learning Partnership and
the York University Foundation
8. Trevor Reid
Title and age: Chief Financial Officer, aged 50
Appointment: Appointed in February 2002
Committee membership: Member of Executive Committee
Skills and experience: Mr. Reid joined Xstrata in January 2002. Prior
to joining Xstrata, he was Global Head of Resource Banking at the
Standard Bank Group. He joined the Standard Bank Group in 1997
from Warrior International Limited, a corporate finance boutique
specialising in the minerals sector
External appointments: None
9. Sir Steve Robson CB
Title and age: Non-executive director, aged 67
Appointment: Appointed in February 2002
Committee membership: Member of Audit and
Nominations Committees
Skills and experience: Sir Steve retired as Second Permanent
Secretary at HM Treasury in January 2001. He had joined HM
Treasury after leaving university. His early career included a period as
Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a two-year
secondment to Investors in Industry plc (3i). From 1997 until his
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retirement, his responsibilities included the legal framework for
regulation of the UK financial services industry, public private
partnerships, procurement policy including the private finance
initiative and the Treasury’s enterprises and growth unit
External appointments: Member of the Financial Reporting Council
and KPMG Chairman’s Advisory Board. Chairman of KPMG’s Public
Interest Committee
10. Ian Strachan
Title and age: Non-executive director, aged 67
Appointment: Appointed in May 2003
Committee membership: Chairman of the Health, Safety,
Environment and Community Committee and a member of the
Audit Committee
Skills and experience: Mr. Strachan was Chairman of Instinet Group
from 2003 to 2005 and Chief Executive of BTR plc from 1996 to
1999. Mr. Strachan joined Rio Tinto plc (formerly RTZ plc) as Chief
Financial Officer in 1987, and was Deputy Chief Executive from 1991
to 1995
External appointments: Director of Rolls-Royce Group plc and
Chairman of its Audit Committees. Chairman of Caithness Petroleum
Limited and Transocean Inc.
11. Santiago Zaldumbide
Title and age: Executive director and Chief Executive of Xstrata Zinc,
aged 68
Appointment: Appointed in February 2002
Committee membership: Member of Executive Committee
Skills and experience: Mr. Zaldumbide is currently Executive Chairman
of Asturiana de Zinc. He is a previous Chief Executive Officer and
Director of Union Explosivos Rio Tinto and of Petroleos del Norte.
In 1990, Petroleos del Norte became part of the Repsol Oil Group
where Mr. Zaldumbide was responsible for establishing the
international structure of the enlarged Repsol Oil Group. In 1994,
he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Corporación Industrial
de Banesto and, in December 1997, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Asturiana de Zinc
External appointments: None
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