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