Nyrstar at its Extraordinary and Special General Meeting of shareholders held on 23 December 2013, the shareholders approved the appointment of Ms. Carole Cable as new independent and non-executive director to the Board of Directors. Ms. Cable is currently a Partner of the Brunswick Group, where she is the joint head of the energy and resources practice, specialising in the metals and mining sector. Prior to her current position, she worked at Credit Suisse and JPMorgan where she was a mining analyst and then moved into institutional equity sales covering the global mining sector as well as Asia (ex Japan).