Kaz Minerals appoints John Hadfield as CFO

Kaz Minerals has appointed John Hadfield as its new chief financial officer with effect from 1 January 2018.

Hadfield is currently finance director of the UK business of Intertek. Prior to this, he spent more than 14 years at BG Group and Royal Dutch Shell in a number of UK and international finance roles including financial controller of BG's $20bn QGC liquefied natural gas project in Queensland, Australia and vice president of finance for BG's Exploration and Production assets in the UK and Norway.

Following Shell's acquisition of BG, he was responsible for restructuring the combined E&P finance teams in Shell UK and Ireland.

The company also announced that Alison Baker will be appointed as an independent non-executive director with effect from 9 October and will be a member of the Audit Committee. She has nearly 25 years' experience in the provision of audit, capital markets and advisory services, having led the UK and EMEA Oil & Gas practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and prior to that the Energy, Utilities and Mining Assurance practice at Ernst & Young.

Chief executive Oleg Novachuk said: "I look forward to welcoming John Hadfield and Alison Baker to their new roles at KAZ Minerals as chief financial officer and independent non-executive director. Both John and Alison bring extensive experience to the group and will make an important contribution as we enter the next stage of our development."

At 0805 BST, the shares were up 1.6% to 800.31p.