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Rupert Pardoe graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA in Comparative African Government and Law and completed his honours degree cum laude in Development Administration and Politics at the University of South Africa. After a year in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne, he joined Anglo American as a management trainee in 1981, where he held various roles over a twenty year period, including Personal Assistant to Gavin Reilly, then Chairman, Finance Director of Anglo American Industrial Corporation (AMIC) and Finance Director of the Corporation from 1997 to 2001. Mr Pardoe was also a member of the Corporation’s Executive Committee, Audit Committee, Administration Committee and Credit Committee, which he chaired. He was also a member of the Investment Committee of Anglo American plc. At ABSA, he was a member of the Group Executive Committee and its Group Investment Committee. He was also Chairman of both ABSA’s Retail Bank Board and its Commercial Bank Board.
Mr Pardoe has served on a number of boards, both in South Africa and abroad, including AECI, Amgold, Anglo Coal, Anglo Platinum, Boart Longyear, FirstRand, Highveld Steel and Vanadium, Rand Merchant Bank and Mondi. He currently operates as a business consultant in South Africa and specialises in assisting South African companies with black economic empowerment matters.
Mr Pardoe was appointed to the Caledonia board and elected Chairman in February 2005. | 