Elaine Forrest
Executive Company Secretary; Secretary of the Executive Committee
Dip (Secretarial)
Elaine assisted with the setting up of SFA (Oxford) and since 2005 has worked as Executive Company Secretary where she controls Corporate Financial Accounting, liaising with SFA (Oxford)’s accountants, Shaw Gibbs LLP. Elaine has assisted in front-of-house marketing activities, including global corporate roadshows, and regularly liaises with clients. Elaine is also a key organiser of SFA’s ‘Oxford Platinum Lectures’.
Prior to joining SFA, 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.
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
The Team
Stephen A. Forrest
Chairman, Principal Consultant & Engineer; Chairman of the Executive Committee
Beresford Clarke
Managing Director & Head of Research; Member of the Executive Committee
David Mobbs
Head of Marketing; Member of the Executive Committee
Dr Jenny Watts
Principal Analyst: Automotive Demand & Technology; Member of the Executive Committee
Samantha Trickey
Principal Analyst: Supply, Geology & Mining; Member of the Executive Committee
Dr Ralph Grimble
Principal Market Analyst: Commodities & Financial Markets; Member of the Executive Committee
Jamie Underwood
Senior Strategy Analyst: Project Consulting
Oksan Atilan
Consulting Market Analyst: Automotive Demand
Wenlin (Karen) He
Consulting Market Analyst: China
Thomas Chandler
Senior Strategy Analyst: Project Consulting
Alex Biddle
Senior Mining Analyst
John Miles
Associate Consultant
Elaine Forrest
Executive Company Secretary; Secretary of the Executive Committee
Andy Smith
Independent; Member of the Executive Committee
Jeremy Coombes
Independent; Member of the Executive Committee