Calderon at the helm of AngloGold Ashanti

at 61 years Alberto Calderon, AngloGold Ashanti’s new CEO, is almost the same age as Nick Holland who, at 62, stepped down from Gold Fields to comply with the firm’s mandatory retirement age. Calderon, though, wasn’t in a retirement frame of mind. “I spoke to friends and I knew that I did not want to be a non-executive professional. That would be too boring. I wanted to be busy and see what lands,” he says in an interview with finweek shortly after the announcement of his appointment, which will be effective 1 September.

“This appeared,” he says of AngloGold. “A friend told me, why don’t you look at it.” And that’s how some top executive placements