Management Team




The people within the company are a product of our history. The company was founded on contracts won in the gold mining industry in the Free State and Rustenburg in 2002.

Director & Group Chief Executive Officer - Gordon Hogan
The company is led by the Chairman Gordon Hogan. Gordon is a mining engineer who has had a long career with the Boart Longyear group, which is a leading international exploration drilling and mining contractor and manufacturer of mining equipment. Gordon founded Lesedi Drilling in 2002.

Director & Chief Executive Officer- Salome Malema
Salome Malema joined Lesedi Drilling in 2011 as Human Capital Management Director. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems and Business Management from UNISA and Financial Accounting certificate from Havard Univ (online).  She brings a wealth of experience in Human Resource Management, Strategy Development and Market Research to name a few. Her exposure spans beyond the borders of South Africa. She is driven by Innovation, Technology and Empowerment. 

Director: Human Capital - George Matlabe 
George has spent most of his career in the exploration drilling industry at Boart Longyear. He worked his way up to the position of training manager and in 2010 joined Lesedi Drilling. George was appointed Human Capital director in 2013. 

Non-Executive Director - Tony Nocton Smith
Tony Nocton Smith has a post-graduate degree in geology and business administration and has spent 15 years of his career in the investment community in Johannesburg, administering large pension funds. Tony was a founding director of Lesedi Drilling and retired in March 2016

Health and Safety Manager - Gerhard Victor
Gerhard began his mining career in the South African gold mines as a learner official in 1982. He advanced through the various production positions in the mines, working for both AngloGold and Goldfields and obtained his Safety Officer Certificate before joining Lesedi Drilling in 2010. Gerhard was appointed as the Lesedi Drilling Health and Safety director in 2015

Operations Manager - Dolf De Noon
Dolf has spent his entire career in the exploration industry. Dolf joined Boart Longyear in the early 1980's and worked his way up from a machine operator position to an area manager. He joined Lesedi Drilling in 2006 in the Rustenburg operations and was appointed a director in 2013. 

Financial Manager – Desiree Smith
Desiree has many years of experience working in the accounts department, she studied Accounting & Bookkeeping through Damelin Business College & completed a Diploma in Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Unisa.
Desiree worked for the Altron Group at both Bytes Document Solutions & Bytes Systems Integration for 10 years before joining our Lesedi Drilling head office accounts department in 2012 where she was later appointed as Financial Manager in 2019.

The people within the company are a product of our history. The company was founded on contracts won in the gold mining industry in the Free State and Rustenburg in 2002.