Mark Cutifani

Who is Mark Cutifani?

Mark Cutifani is an Australian businessman and the current CEO and a director of South African gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti, a position he has held since October 2007.

As CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Cutifani hopes to reduce the number of fatalities within the company to zero by 2015, stating that having to live with fatalities in the industry is his greatest disappointment. In his first two and a half years with Cutifani in charge, AngloGold Ashanti reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%. In 2006, before he took up office, the company had 37 fatalities, this number was reduced to 16 in 2009.

In January 2013 it was announced that Cutifani would become the new chief executive of mining group Anglo American, starting his new role on 3 April 2013, replacing Cynthia Carroll in this position.