Marius Kloppers’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Ceo of bhp billiton
Is

Businessperson 
Engineer 
Entrepreneur 

From

South Africa 

Type

Business 
Engineering 

Gender male
Birth 26 August 1962, Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Age: 57 years
Star sign Virgo

Marius Jacques Kloppers (born 26 August 1962) is a South African businessman and former CEO of BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company. He was also Executive Director and Chairman of the Group Management Committee from 2007 to 2013. He was asked to retire as CEO on 1 October 2013, and was succeeded by Andrew Mackenzie.

Education

Kloppers graduated from Helpmekaar Kollege, an IEB school in Johannesburg. Kloppers graduated with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Pretoria and subsequently went on to receive a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also graduated with an MBA from INSEAD.

Career

Kloppers worked in petrochemicals at Sasol and materials research with Mintek in South Africa. Following completion of his MBA at INSEAD, he then worked with management consultants McKinsey & Co in Netherlands before joining Billiton in 1993. In 2007, at the age of 44, he was appointed CEO of the largest resource company in the world, BHP Billiton. He officially assumed the position of CEO on 1 October 2007. In 2009 his annual compensation was $US 10,399,589, of which $2M was salary and the balance was bonus.

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