Barend Petersen, Executive Chairman, De Beers Consolidated Mines - Read More
Barend is Executive Chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines and represents the De Beers Family of Companies in South Africa. In the past decade Barend has had a wide involvement in De Beers Family of Companies. He is also a director of De Beers Societè Anonyme. He is a shareholder in Ponahalo Capital who owns a 50% stake in Ponahalo Investments, the black economic empowerment partner of De Beers Consolidated Mines.
He is a director of several companies including, Anglo American South Africa, Alexander Forbes Equity Holdings and Curro Holdings. Barend is the Chairman of Sizwe Business Recoveries which he founded in 1998.
He was born in Cape Town and was educated in the Western Cape. He studied at UNISA where he obtained a B.Compt (Hons). He qualified as a chartered accountant during 1995.
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