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Jianke Gao

11th March 2016

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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Full Name: Jianke Gao

Position: CEO of Wesizwe Platinum since August 2011

Main Activity of Company: Mine development

Date and Place of Birth: September 9, 1962, Henan province, China

Education: Bachelor of Mining, professor-level senior engineer, Central-South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, China (now Central-South University, China)

First Job: Mining engineer at Jinchuan, 1984

Size of First Pay Packet: Rmb68 a month (less than $10 a month)

Career History: Chief engineer, Jinchuan’s Longshou (Dragon Head) mine; deputy director, Jinchuan Technical Centre; VP, Nickel and Cobalt Research and Design Institute; GM, Jinchuan No 2 mine; and other key positions in Jinchuan

Value of the Assets under Your Control: R667 409 093 as at January 16, 2016

Number of People under Your Leadership: 80

Management Style: Decentralised, with collective problem solving

Personal Best Achievement: Reaching full production and then expanding the Jinchuan No 2 mine, which employs 3 200 people, during the six years I was GM

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Ren Hanzhang, GM of Jinchuan’s Longshou mine

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Zhuge Liang, the master of tactics from China’s Three Kingdoms period

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Steve Jobs

Philosophy of Life: Live happily

Biggest Ever Opportunity: China’s open-door policy, which provides access to university; without that, I would still be a peasant farmer working in the fields

Biggest Ever Disappointment: I have had no big disappointments

Hope for the Future: Making Wesizwe successful

Favourite Reading: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a three-volume epic novel written during the fourteenth century by Luo Guanzhong

Favourite TV programme: I have no time to watch TV

Favourite Food/Drink: Any food that can fill my stomach, and water

Favourite Music: Chinese YU opera from Henan province

Favourite Sport: Badminton

Hobbies: Music and surfing the Internet

Car: ‘Number 11’ – my two legs; I walk

Pets: None

Dislikes: People who do not think independently

Married: To Lin Xiuzhi

Children: Son, Gao Yizhao, 24

Clubs: None

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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