# Jim Rutherford

> Jim Rutherford is a startup investor at Anglo American. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Anglo American](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anglo-american)
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Jim Rutherford is a startup investor at Anglo American. Jim is a member of the S&SD Committee. He has extensive experience in investment banking and investment management, both as an institutional investor and analyst. He brings to the Board considerable financial insight from the perspective of the capital markets and a deep strategic understanding of the mining industry. Between 1997 and 2013,he was a Senior Vice President of Capital International Investors (a division of Capital Group), with responsibility for investments in the mining and metals industry with a broad geographic focus that included Europe, Emerging Markets and Australasia. Prior to joining Capital Group, Jim was an investment analyst covering the South American mining and metals industry for HSBC James Capel in New York. He also held analyst roles with Credit Lyonnais, covering diversified industrial companies, and CRU International, covering the copper industry.

## About Anglo American

VC Fund · Johannesburg, South Africa

Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies, is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. Their portfolio of mining businesses meets our customers' changing needs and spans bulk commodities – iron ore and manganese, metallurgical coal and thermal coal; base metals and minerals –copper, nickel, niobium, and phosphates; and precious metals and minerals – in which they are a global leader in both platinum and diamonds.Anglo American plc operates in the mining industry. The company’s portfolio of mining assets includes precious, base, and bulk commodities. Business The company’s mining businesses are Platinum, Diamonds, Base Metals, Iron Ore (Ferrous Metals), and Coal. It has operations in approximately 45 countries. Platinum The company mines, processes and refines platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and osmium). All of Anglo Platinum’s operations are located in South Africa. Anglo Platinum wholly owns five mining operations, a tailings re-treatment facility, three smelters, a base metals refinery, and a precious metals refinery, all in the Limpopo and North West provinces of South Africa. Each of its mines operates its own concentrator facilities, smelting and refining the output at Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ metallurgical facilities. The company’s 100% owned mining operations comprise Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ Rustenburg, Amandelbult, Mogalakwena, and Twickenham sections as well as Lebowa Platinum Mines, 51% of which is held for sale. Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ Union Section is 85% held, with black economic empowerment (BEE) partner, the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela traditional community, holding the remainder. Anglo Platinum also has a 50:50 joint venture with a BEE consortium, led by African Rainbow Minerals, over the Modikwa platinum mine, a joint venture with Royal Bafokeng Resources, a BEE partner, over the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone platinum mine and Styldrift properties and a joint venture with Xstrata over the Mototolo mine. In addition, Anglo Platinum has joint ventures with Aquarius Platinum covering the shallow reserves of the Kroondal and Marikana mines and portions of the reserves at Anglo Platinum’s Rustenburg Section.

5 contacts available at Anglo American.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CK Chow | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ck-chow |
| Jan Klawitter | Principal, International Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-klawitter |
| Jim Rutherford | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-rutherford |
| Judy Dlamini | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judy-dlamini |
| Mark Sun | Head of Marketing of Asia Pacific Precious Metals & Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-sun-2000 |

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