Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited announced the appointment of Arina McDonald as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Ms. McDonald joins Atlas Mara from The Standard Bank Group of South Africa, where she was Head of Group Central Finance. She has been with Standard Bank since 2002 and held roles including Chief Financial Officer of Africa; Director of Group Finance Projects and a Director in Investment Banking.

Prior to that she worked at Goldman Sachs and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Ms. McDonald will take over from Bradford Gibbs, who has held the role of Acting CFO.

Mr. Gibbs will continue to work for Atlas Mara in a senior strategic and operational capacity, reporting to the CEO and remaining on the Executive Committee. Ms. McDonald will join the Company on 1 November 2014 and will be appointed to the Executive Committee.