Richard Stewart

Chief Executive Officer, Sibanye-Stillwater

Richard Stewart is Chief Executive Officer of Sibanye-Stillwater, in the role since October 2025.

Succeeded founding chief executive Neal Froneman on 1 October 2025 and moved the miner away from acquisitions towards cost savings and debt reduction.

In the job

  1. Launched ’back to basics’ strategy: R3bn cost savings target over two years, halve net debt, no acquisition strategy. Source

Career before

  1. 2009-2014Executive Committee (technical and business development), Gold One; last role EVP Technical Services
  2. 2013-2014CEO, Goliath Gold
  3. 2014-2022 (COO from 2020)EVP Business Development, then Group COO, Sibanye-Stillwater
  4. 2022-2025Chief Regional Officer: Southern Africa, Sibanye-Stillwater

Education

PhD in geology (University of the Witwatersrand); also BSc, BSc (Hons), MBA per company profile listing

Sources

  1. miningmx.com
  2. miningweekly.com
  3. miningweekly.com
  4. nz.finance.yahoo.com
  5. sec.gov
  6. finance.yahoo.com
  7. miningmx.com
  8. businessday.co.za
  9. en.wikipedia.org

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