Jacques Breytenbach

Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Tharisa plc, effective 1 Aug 2026 (CFO designate from 1 May 2026), succeeding the retiring Michael Jones -- missing from this DB entirely before this batch (only CEO Phoevos Pouroulis was tracked). A seasoned mining-finance executive with over 25 years of experience across the diamond and PGM sectors: finance manager at Anglo American Platinum (now Valterra Platinum, already tracked in this DB, VALT) 2001-2006; joined Petra Diamonds Limited (not separately tracked in this DB) in 2006 as group finance manager, becoming CFO in 2016 through 2024, when he departed for personal reasons.