Appointed: 7 September 2010

Shammy Luvhengo is a qualified investment banker and geologist. He started his career with Exxaro Resources before moving into the investment world. Shammy worked for Investec Bank and Nedbank Capital, structuring and implementing project finance and Black Economic Empowerment deals within the resources industry. Prior to joining Universal Coal, he worked at Nkwe Platinum Limited as head of business development and investor relations.

Appointed: 7 January 2013
Board committee membership: Audit and Risk Committee

Carlo Baravalle spent several years in strategic consulting working on assignment for French conglomerates between Paris and the USA and in the telecoms industry becoming a director of the corporate finance telecoms team at Warburg before taking a senior global position at Lucent Technologies. Carlo became involved with the private equity industry working with an Apax Partners-owned company as MD International, as a main board member at The Exchange FS, and later as senior vice-president for EMEA, Asia and LatAm for LCC, a telecoms engineering company initially invested by the Carlyle Group. In 2006, he launched a private equity fund of funds aimed mainly at Italian institutional investors.

Appointed: 7 January 2013
Board committee membership: Remuneration Committee

Dr David Twist has more than 30 years’ experience in geological research, exploration and developing mineral resource projects. Among others, he is the co-founder of Sephaku Fluoride (Pty) Limited, African Precious Minerals and APM Mining, Sephaku Holdings Limited, Taung Gold (Pty) Limited and Sedibelo Platinum Mines Limited (formerly, Platmin Limited), where he also served as chief executive officer until 2006. David also served as executive director for most of the companies mentioned above. He is a founding partner at AMED Funds, one of Universal Coal’s largest shareholders and has been appointed to the Universal Board as the representative of AMED Funds.

Appointed: 16 October 2014
Board committee membership: Audit and Risk Committee

Nonkululeko Nyembezi is the CEO of IchorCoal N.V., an international mineral resources company focusing on coal mining in South Africa. Nonkululeko was previously CEO of ArcelorMittal South Africa, the largest steel producer on the African continent. Nonkululeko has held executive and nonexecutive positions on numerous boards in both the public and private sectors. She currently serves as independent nonexecutive chairman of the JSE and Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Ltd.

Appointed: 04 December 2019

Craig Ransley has a broad entrepreneurial background and has been the driving force in building a number of companies. He has extensive experience in the labour hire and service industries as founder of TESA Group Pty Limited and ResCo Services. He was the founder and instrumental in the creation and ASX listing of both NuCoal Resources Limited and Guildford Coal Limited (now TerraCom). Mr Ransley is the Executive Chairman of TerraCom Limited.

Appointed: 11 December 2019

Paul Sanger is Investment Banking Executive with over 30 years of experience focused on global capital markets. He is the former Managing Director and Head of Distribution (Asia) for Citi, where he managed and maintained a team of over 350 financial market professionals across 10 countries in public capital markets. Paul has a long background dealing with the senior management of listed and unlisted corporations on public market strategy and has extensive experience in the entire lifespan of a publicly listed entity, including IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, restructures and capital raises. Previous to this, Paul ran the local trading operations of the firms Australian and Japanese arms. He is a proven leader and business strategist with an intimate knowledge of financial markets and corporate governance issues.

Appointed: 03 April 2020

Mr Lewis is a qualified Coal Mine Manager and has worked in the Coal Industry since 1980. Throughout his career he worked at all levels of Management inclusive of 10 years as an Undermanager at various operations including United Colliery and Dartbrook Coal where he was part of the Management Team for the construction of both projects. In 1997 he commenced as Mine Manager at Cumnock Coal and in 1999 was promoted to Operations Manager at Oceanic Coal (consisting of West Wallsend and Teralba underground mines and Westside opencut operation) following its acquisition by Xstrata Coal.

Glen was promoted to the role of General Manager Eastern Underground Operations for Xstrata Coal NSW in 2003 and was then responsible for United Collieries, Cumnock Coal and Oceanic Coal. Continuing with Xstrata Coal NSW, he was promoted to General Manager Operations with overall responsibility for 6 operating mines and several projects under construction. Glen commenced with NuCoal Resources Ltd (ASX: NCR) in 2010 as Managing Director overseeing the listing, capital raising, exploration and feasibility studies for a number of mining projects in the Hunter Valley. Glen stepped down from the position of Managing Director in 2017 but remains a Non-Executive Director of NuCoal.  Mr Lewis is also currently a Non-executive Director of TerraCom Limited.