Dean Subramanian
Chief Executive Rand Refinery
Dean Subramanian is a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA) with extensive experience as a Chief Financial Officer and senior finance executive across listed and private organisations. He has previously held the position on Chief Financial Officer and Acting CEO at ArcelorMittal South Africa, a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Dean also served as Finance Director at Aveng Steel, an operating group of Aveng Limited, where he gained experience across both construction and manufacturing divisions. Earlier in his career, he held several senior roles within the banking, airline, and property sectors, and was Group Chief Financial Officer of JHI, a property asset management company. Dean has significant experience across the African continent. He completed his articles at EY in Johannesburg, where he qualified as Chartered Accountant and was seconded by Ernst & Young to New York. He joined Rand Refinery on 1 August 2018 as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. On 1 January 2026, the Rand Refinery Board appointed Dean Subramanian as the Chief Executive of Rand Refinery.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Stronger together in gold: Building Africa’s responsible refining partnerships
Gold is no longer governed by a single centre of gravity. As producer countries move to retain value, strengthen oversight, and build domestic refining capacity, long-standing market standards are being tested, reinterpreted, and, in some cases, rewritten.
This fireside brings together the custodians of global gold standards, legacy refining institutions, and emerging African market authorities to examine how credibility is defined, how trust is transferred, and what a modern gold rulebook must look like in a world of shifting power.
It also showcases the true power of partnerships through a recent strategic collaboration between Rand Refinery and Ghana’s Gold Coast Refinery, working alongside GoldBod to deepen local beneficiation, strengthen technical capability, and raise responsible sourcing standards across the gold value chain
The conversation asks a simple but consequential question: who sets the rules of the gold market now - and who should?
Wednesday 11 February 13:50 - 14:20 Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)
Leadership
This fireside brings together the custodians of global gold standards, legacy refining institutions, and emerging African market authorities to examine how credibility is defined, how trust is transferred, and what a modern gold rulebook must look like in a world of shifting power.
It also showcases the true power of partnerships through a recent strategic collaboration between Rand Refinery and Ghana’s Gold Coast Refinery, working alongside GoldBod to deepen local beneficiation, strengthen technical capability, and raise responsible sourcing standards across the gold value chain
The conversation asks a simple but consequential question: who sets the rules of the gold market now - and who should? Table Mountain Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall) Africa/Johannesburg








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