Lee-Ann joined Implats as the executive director of HR in 2017.
Lee-Ann Samuel, executive director at Implats, has been nominated for the 2020 CHRO Awards. Having joined Implats in 2017, Lee-Ann has 16 years of human resources experience in financial services, mining and telecommunications, and previously spent three years at Telkom Media as head of people development. Prior to Implats, Lee-Ann was an executive vice president and vice president at Gold Fields. She also has remuneration experience in the banking industry as a remuneration & employee benefits manager and remuneration & employee benefits planner at Absa and Nedbank respectively.
The CHRO Awards ceremony will be held on 26 November 2020 at Inanda Club in Johannesburg. It will give HR directors and CHROs of listed companies, large corporations, state-owned entities and government institutions alike an opportunity to be recognised and rewarded for their exceptional performance and leadership.
Implats is short for Impala Platinum Holding Limited and is a leading producer of platinum group metals (PGMs). It has six mining operations and the toll refining business Impala Refining Services. Its mines are located on three of the most significant PGM deposits in the world: The Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the Canadian Shield in North America and the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe.