John Wetton

John was appointed to the board on 1 July 2011. He spent his professional career with Ernst & Young (“EY”) in the United Kingdom and South Africa mainly in corporate audit.

He attended several post qualification programmes including those presented by University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School and Gordon Institute of Business Science.

When EY integrated globally, he had a business development role across Sub-Saharan Africa and was also part of the team that led the strategic integration of EY’s practices and services throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

For several years he led EY’s mining group and acted as senior partner for many of the firm’s major mining and construction clients. He was a member of EY’s executive management committee (Board) and was, until retirement, a member of the EY Africa Governance Board.