Consulting analysts in mining, metals and commodities
Elaine Forrest
Executive Company Secretary
Dip Secretarial (SA)
Elaine worked in a modernising data processing role for the Metallurgical Engineering team (for both concentrator and smelting facilities) at Impala Platinum’s mineral processing facility, before transferring to the company’s Wildebeestfontein South Mine as the Resident Engineer’s Office Administrator and Data Processor.
In 1990, Elaine joined Knox D’Arcy (which specialises in achieving significant financial and operational improvements) as a Time Analysis Computer Consultant.
Since 2005, after assisting in the start-up of SFA (Oxford), Elaine has worked as Executive Company Secretary where she controls Corporate Financial Accounting, liaising with SFA (Oxford)’s accountants, Shaw Gibbs LLP.
Qualifications
- Dip Secretarial – Kelly-Greenoaks Secretarial & Business College, Johannesburg
- Advanced Certification in Computing (Critical Path Analysis and Timeline, Programming in Fortran and Advanced DBASE III) – General Engineering Services, Johannesburg


