Sihle Mdluli

Executive: New Business Development African Rainbow Minerals

Sihle is the New Business Development Executive at African Rainbow Minerals(ARM). Her key focus is to grow the ARM’s current portfolio and diversify into new commodities that will be in demand in the future through commercialisation of new technologies.  
Sihle joined ARM from Bushveld Minerals, a vertically integrated vanadium producer through its mining and energy businesses.  At Bushveld, she was the Director of Strategy and Corporate Services.  
Prior to joining Bushveld Minerals, Sihle was a Director/Partner and Operations Transformation leader at Deloitte Africa’s Strategy and Operations practice. She assisted her clients in defining and executing on their strategies and in improving their cost per output unit in a sustainable manner - whilst ensuring robust stakeholder engagement to enable lasting socio-economic impact in the communities where they operate. She joined Deloitte in 2010 and prior to that she worked for De Beers where she accumulated over 6 years’ experience in mining; in plant operations, general management and diamond sales.  
She holds a BSc Engineering degree in Metallurgy and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand.  
Sihle believes that her life’s work is doing well by doing good – and this is a motto she lives by.