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Ex-Rio Tinto Exec to Chair Gem Diamonds
Apr 19, 2017 3:35 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Gem Diamonds has appointed Rio Tinto and McKinsey &
Co veteran Harry Kenyon-Slaney as chairman, effective from June.
Kenyon-Slaney (pictured), currently a senior adviser to McKinsey,
has more than 33 years’ experience in the mining industry, Gem Diamonds said
Tuesday. A geologist by training, he is also a partner at Audley Capital
Advisors and a member of the board of directors at Bridon Bekaert Ropes Group.
Until 2015, Kenyon-Slaney was a member of the group
executive committee at Rio Tinto, where he served as CEO of energy and before
that as CEO of diamonds and minerals.
He will succeed current Gem Diamonds chairman Roger
Davis after the company’s annual general meeting on June 6.
Kenyon-Slaney’s “experience, knowledge and contacts in
the diamond mining world are perfectly suited to lead Gem Diamonds forward to
what I am sure will be an exciting future,” Davis said.
Davis has
been chairman of Gem Diamonds since 2007. The company owns the Letšeng mine in
Lesotho, known for its large and high-value rough diamonds.
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Tags:
Bridon Bekaert Ropes Group, Gem Diamonds, Harry Kenyon-Slaney, Lesotho, Letšeng, McKinsey & Co, Rapaport News, Rio Tinto, Roger Davis
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