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Career
Davis was a senior manager with the accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co from 1980 to 1986. Davis was an executive director of the South African state-owned Eskom, one of the world’s largest electricity utilities, before joining Gencor Ltd in 1994. He served as executive chairman of Ingwe Coal Corporation Ltd from 1995, until appointed in July 1997 as Chief Financial Officer and an executive director of Billiton plc. He served as Chief Executive of Xstrata from 2001[5] but left in 2013, after the company was taken over by Glencore. He subsequently formed the mining venture, X2 Resources, with former colleagues including former Xstrata finance director Trevor Reid and executives Thras Moraitis, Andrew Latham, Ian Pearce and Benny Levene.[2][6]
Davis has extensive capital markets and corporate transactions experience. During his career, he has raised almost US$40 billion from global capital markets and completed over US$120 billion of corporate transactions. Some of his successes are the creation of the Ingwe Coal Corporation in South Africa; the listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange;[7] the merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world;[8] the initial public offering of Xstrata plc on the London Stock Exchange in 2002[9] and Xstrata's subsequent acquisitions of MIM Holdings[10] and Falconbridge Limited,[11] amongst others and most recently the successful merger of Xstrata and Glencore.[12] Early in 2015 he and his partners successfully closed the X2 Resources fund after raising almost US$6 billion from a combination of sovereign wealth, pension and private equity funds.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Davis
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