Strategy Chief Gareth Mostyn to Leave De Beers

RAPAPORT… Gareth Mostyn, executive
head of strategy and corporate affairs at De Beers, will leave the
company in early 2018 to become chief finance and operations officer of the
Church of England. 

Previously chief financial
officer at De Beers, Mostyn (pictured) took over his current role from Bruce Cleaver, who
later became De Beers’ CEO.

Mostyn began working at De Beers’
parent company, Anglo American, in 2008, serving as head of corporate finance. He
was appointed to the De Beers board as CFO in February 2012, and became
executive head for strategy and corporate affairs in January 2016. He previously
spent 12 years working for the BOC Group, a gas and engineering company, where
he held a number of senior finance roles.

“Gareth has been a
central part of De Beers’ success during the last six years, and a trusted
partner to me,” Cleaver said. “The church is an important part of Gareth’s
life, and I know he will be an important part of the church’s future.”

De Beers has not yet
named Mostyn’s successor.