Namib Minerals has appointed Sphe Mchunu as Chief Financial Officer, promoting its Group General Counsel — a position he has held since 2020 — into the company's most senior financial leadership role. Mchunu will continue to oversee legal and governance matters alongside his new responsibilities.
Mchunu joined the company's predecessor entities in 2020 and played a central role in the 2025 business combination with Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VI and the subsequent Nasdaq listing under the ticker NAMM, leading the legal, regulatory, and disclosure workstreams across both transactions. His professional background spans more than a decade advising on complex corporate finance, capital markets, and governance transactions at leading legal firms including Hogan Lovells. He holds a Master of Laws in Commercial Law from the University of Cape Town.
Namib Minerals described Mchunu's dual command of operational and financial portfolios as positioning him to lead the finance organisation through the company's next growth phase, which includes maintaining safe and consistent production at How Mine, restarting the Redwing Mine, and completing its development financing programme. No financial details of the Redwing restart capital requirement or the development financing programme were disclosed in the announcement.
