JACO KRIEK

Jaco Kriek was born in South Africa, Kwa-Zulu Natal in a town called Vryheid on 31 March 1964, and raised on a game farm bordering the Itala game reserve. He attended the Primary School Louwsburg and high school in Vryheid, and went on to gain an honours degree at Rand Afrikaans University, now the University of Johannesburg (UJ).

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants (UK), MCom (Financial Management) degree at the University of Johannesburg and attended an Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD University in France. Jaco then became Audit Manager at KPMG for four years before joining the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in 1992.

Whilst there he was promoted to Executive Vice President: Projects from 2000, where he was part of the IDC executive team who restructured Saldanha Steel and unbundled Iscor. Jaco was also responsible for the IDC team on the US$2.2 billion Mozal Aluminium Smelter, and involved in writing the Mozal Case Study to Harvard Business School and lectured the case study on an annual basis for 5 years.

Jaco Kriek was appointed CEO of Pebble Bed Modular Reactor in August 2004.

He is married with three children.