Full Name: Wray Anthony Carvelas

Position: CEO of DRA Group

Main Activity of the Company: DRA is a diversified engineering, project delivery and asset management company that is focused predominantly on the global mineral resources sector

Date and Place of Birth: January 14, 1965, Johannesburg

Education: National higher diploma in extractive metallurgy; MBA (cum laude)

First Job: Learner official

Career History Prior to Current Position: Learner official and plant metallurgist at Anglo American Corporation's Ergo gold plant; assistant plant superintendent (production operations) and plant superintendent De Beers Consolidated Mines' Finsch diamond mine; process manager, EL Bateman; project manager, Kellogg Brown & Root; project manager, senior project manager and projects director, DRA Mineral Projects

Size of First Pay Packet: R785

First Job with Present Group: Project manager

Value of Assets under Your Control: R2-billion

Number of People under Your Leadership: About 3 000

Management Style: Collaborative, decisive and authentic

Professional Best Achievement: Current role

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My wife, Wilma, and my parents

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Barack Obama

Philosophy of Life: Do not dream of success – work for it, and empower people to do the same

Hope for the Future: That we achieve our sustainable development goals and realise a more sustainable future for all

Favourite Reading: Nonfiction

Favourite TV Programme: Mr Bean and sport

Favourite Food/Drink: Thai, Indian or Mediterranean. Red wine or single malt whisky

Favourite Music: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Favourite Sport: Ice hockey, basketball and rugby

Favourite Website: CBC News, Kitco, TripAdvisor

Hobbies: Cooking something new, sailing and playing a little guitar

Car: Mercedes-Benz

Pets: None

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Mediocrity

Married: To Wilma Marinda, since November 1986

Children: Two sons, Angelo, 26, and Dominic, 24