Richard Lilleike

Chief Growth Officer Exxaro Resources

Richard has a BSc (Electromechanical Engineering) undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from Wits Business School Richard started his career as an engineer with Eskom before moving into management consulting with the Marsh McLennan Group of companies, primarily consulting to the mining industry on a global basis. Richard, in 2008, then moved into the metals and mining corporate advisory and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team at Standard Chartered Bank based in Johannesburg. Richard was with SCB for 15 years and headed up the M&A team for southern and eastern Africa, focusing primarily on cross-border metals and mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, and general industrial deals on the African continent. Through this role, he has significant buy-side, sell-side and capital-raising transactional experience and built up a large network of corporate relationships, skills which he will utilise in his role as Chief Growth Officer for Exxaro. The position entails the execution of Exxaro’s growth strategy, namely growing the business through value-accretive acquisitions sanctioned by the board and running sustainable divestitures as and when required for the company.