REG - Anglo American PLC - Anglo American appoints Elisabeth Brinton to Board

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16/02/2021 08:00

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Anglo American PLC
  
16 February 2021
  
 





16 February 2021




Anglo American appoints Elisabeth Brinton to the Board




 




Anglo American plc ("Anglo American") announces that Elisabeth Brinton will join the Board as a non-executive director, with effect from 1 March 2021.
 
Elisabeth Brinton is EVP of Global Renewables & Energy Solutions at Royal Dutch Shell plc, having built an international career that has brought together her strategic vision for business transitions with a customer centric approach to technology and product innovation.
 
Stuart Chambers, Chairman of Anglo American, said: "Elisabeth Brinton's experience of developing clean energy strategies around the world, with a clear commercial focus on the potential for digital technologies, will bring additional insights to our Board discussions. I look forward to welcoming Elisabeth to Anglo American."
 
There are no additional details to disclose under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of the appointment of Elisabeth Brinton.
 
 
Notes to editors:
 
Following the appointment of Elisabeth Brinton, the Anglo American plc Board of Directors will comprise:
 




Chairman


Executive directors


Non-executive directors




Stuart Chambers
 


Mark Cutifani - chief executive
Stephen Pearce - finance director
Tony O'Neill - technical director
 


Ian Ashby
Marcelo Bastos
Elisabeth Brinton
Byron Grote (Senior Independent Director)
Hilary Maxson (from 1 June 2021)
Hixonia Nyasulu
Nonkululeko Nyembezi
Anne Stevens




 
 
Elisabeth Brinton, age 53, is EVP of Global Renewables & Energy Solutions (formerly New Energies) at Royal Dutch Shell plc. Ms Brinton joined Shell in 2018 from AGL Energy, one of Australia's largest energy companies, where she led their commercial new energies business and built at the time Australia's largest portfolio of renewables in partnership with the AUD$3 Billion Powering Australia Renewables Fund. Prior to that, Elisabeth spent 15 years in a number of senior executive technology roles in the USA, leading the development of cloud-based customer solutions and broader digital transformations for the energy industry, having begun her career as a successful entrepreneur. Elisabeth has a bachelor's degree in English and History from Principia College, Illinois, USA and is a Harry S. Truman Scholar.
 
 
For further information, please contact:
 




Media


 


Investors




UK
James Wyatt-Tilby
james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com
 
Marcelo Esquivel
marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com
 
Katie Ryall
katie.ryall@angloamerican.com
 
South Africa
Sibusiso Tshabalala
sibusiso.tshabalala@angloamerican.com
 
Nomonde Ndwalaza
Nomonde.ndwalaza@angloamerican.com
 


 


UK
Paul Galloway
paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
 
Robert Greenberg
robert.greenberg@angloamerican.com
 
Emma Waterworth
emma.waterworth@angloamerican.com
 




 
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, development projects and undeveloped resources, provides many of the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing consumer-driven demands of developed and maturing economies. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to mine, process, move and market our products to our customers - and to discover new resources - safely and sustainably.
 
As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, the steelmaking ingredients of iron ore and metallurgical coal, and nickel - with crop nutrients in development and thermal coal operations planned for divestment - we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock sustainable value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people's lives.
www.angloamerican.com
 
     
 
 
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