Drawing from experts across the PGM value chain, including BASF, Ivanhoe Mines, Impala Platinum, Valterra Platinum, Johnson Matthey, Mitsubishi Corporation, Heraeus, Sibanye-Stillwater, Karo Platinum, Southern Palladium and World Platinum Investment Council, with Q&A sessions, the event will feature insightful lectures and stimulating debate. 

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Marna Cloete
President & CEO, Ivanhoe Mines

Marna Cloete has been the President of Ivanhoe Mines since April 2020, leveraging over 20 years of expertise in strategic finance, resource development, and organisational transformation. Since joining in 2006, she has played a vital role in the company’s evolution, notably serving as Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2020. Under her leadership, Ivanhoe Mines successfully developed and launched production at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex and successfully reopened the Kipushi Mine, both in the DRC.

She continues to oversee the development of the Platreef Mine in South Africa. Marna secured joint ventures with Zijin Mining and partnerships with CITIC Metal and a Japanese consortium led by Itochu. Under her guidance, Ivanhoe raised $1.74 billion through equity and debt financing in late 2023, 2024 and 2025. She also positioned Ivanhoe Mines as the first company to utilise the Lobito Atlantic Rail Corridor for mineral exports, unlocking cost efficiencies and international trade opportunities. Marna serves on the Executive Committee of the International Copper Association. She also served as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for Centamin plc until its acquisition by AngloGold Ashanti in 2024.

Before joining Ivanhoe Mines, Marna honed her expertise at PwC, specialising in the mining and metals sector, and held a senior reporting position at Group Five Construction Ltd., a publicly traded South African construction firm. Marna is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and holds a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Pretoria.

Phoevos Pouroulis
Chief Executive Officer, Karo Mining Holdings

Phoevos Pouroulis is the Chief Executive Officer of Tharisa plc, with responsibility for overall strategy and management. Phoevos has held various senior managerial and operational positions in his more than 23-year career. He has extensive experience in project management, mining design, commissioning and mining operations, including PGMs and chrome, having been involved in South Africa's mining industry since 2003. He has served as Commercial Director for Chromex Mining plc and was a founding member of Keaton Energy. Phoevos currently serves on the board of the World Platinum Investment Council.

Roger Baxter
Executive Chairman, Southern Palladium

Roger Baxter was appointed as the Chairman of Southern Palladium on 1 January 2024, an ASX and JSE listed PGM development company focused on developing the tier 1 world class Bengwenyama platinum group metals project in South Africa. Roger is the is the founding Chairman of the World Platinum Investment Council. He was previously CEO of the Minerals Council South Africa (MCSA) from 2015 to 2023. He is recognised for his leadership role in rejuvenating the brand of the MCSA into a respected voice of the mining sector, helping the industry achieve some of the safest years on record, leading the fight against corruption and pushing for structural and institutional reforms.

Roger has over 35 years of high-level advocacy and strategy experience in the global, regional and local business and mining sectors. He previously chaired the Business Unity South Africa’s (BUSA’s) Economics Committee, ARC and Growth Task Teams. He was previously a member of the Boards of the MCSA and BUSA, the Chairman of the Associations Coordination Group of the ICMM and President of the Mining Industry Association of Southern Africa. In 2018, Roger was awarded the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s Brigadier Stokes Platinum medal for his contribution to the South African mining sector. Since the launch of the Mining MX “Rainmaker and Pot-stirrers” publication, he has been listed as one of Africa’s top 100 most influential people in the mining industry. In 2020, Roger was the winner of the Mining Review Africa, 2020 Mining Thought Leader of the Year award.

Richard Stewart
CEO, Sibanye-Stillwater

Craig Miller
CEO, Valterra Platinum

Nico Muller
CEO, Implats

Tim Ingle
SVP, Precious Metals Services & Recycling, BASF

Effective from April 2026, Tim Ingle will take over responsibility as Senior Vice President, Mobile Emissions Catalyst, based in Iselin, NJ. Currently, Tim serves as Senior Vice President, Precious Metals Services & Recycling, a position he has held since March 2022. In this role, he leads BASF’s global platinum-group metal services and recycling business. Mr Ingle previously served as Vice President, Precious Metals Refining, Chemicals & Battery Recycling from October 2018 to February 2022.

Tim joined BASF in 2004, starting in the Catalysts division, working in sales and strategic planning until 2011. From there, he worked in business management in Performance Chemicals, supported the CEO of BASF Corporation in a staff role and held a leadership role in procurement. He has a wide range of experiences across functions, businesses, and countries, including successfully leading transformations. Mr Ingle holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA in Finance and Management from Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Dominik Sperzel
Head of Trading, Heraeus Precious Metals

Dominik Sperzel is a seasoned executive with over a decade of experience at Heraeus, where he has held a range of strategic commercial roles across Chemical Products, Supported and Emission Catalysts, and Precious Metals Recycling in Europe and the United States. Since 2024, he has assumed the role of Senior Vice President of the Trading Desk at Heraeus Headquarters in Hanau, Germany, overseeing trading operations for Gold, Silver, and PGMs.

With a strong background in physical commodities trading, Dominik brings deep expertise in market dynamics, risk management, and strategic investment. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Hilton Ingram
Executive Head of Marketing, Valterra Platinum

Hilton is the executive head of marketing at Valterra Platinum and leads the company’s sales, trading and market development activities globally. His extensive career has involved leading teams across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Canada, China, Singapore and the UK. Hilton previously served at De Beers for 17 years in roles across the mining value chain, including processing, strategy, mineral resource management, and as technical assistant to the CEO.

Hilton joined Anglo American Platinum in 2011 as head of precious metals marketing. In 2017, he was promoted to executive head of PGM marketing, where he was instrumental in leading Anglo American’s journey from a precious metals wholesaler to integrated miner-trader. This role was expanded in 2020 to include responsibility for Anglo American’s marketing strategy across all its commodities. Hilton was appointed to his current position in Valterra Platinum in 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, and an MBA.

Kleantha Pillay
EVP, Sales & Marketing,
Sibanye-Stillwater

John Cullen
PGMs Commercial Director,
Johnson Matthey

Gako Imajo
Business Development Manager,
Mitsubishi Corporation

Jason Jiang
Head of China Research, World Platinum Investment Council

Jason Jiang leads WPIC's analysis of China's PGM markets, covering automotive, jewellery, and industrial demand, as well as recycling supply. His insights draw on direct engagement across the value chain, from traders, fabricators and end-users to recyclers and policymakers. Following his debut at last year's Shanghai and New York Platinum Week, he returns to Oxford with an updated view on the world’s most dynamic PGM market.

The Platinum Standard

Beresford Clarke,
Managing Director, SFA (Oxford)

In addition, Managing Director Beresford Clarke will present the latest issue of The Platinum Standard. This highly sought-after publication provides our latest market view and collates all the key industry data and indicators for the past 12 months.

SFA (Oxford)’s associated publication, The Palladium Standard, was first launched in New York in September 2016 and is released annually.