About Us

Mick is Chairperson and Non-Executive Director of Macsteel Global Limited. He is also Chairperson and CEO of Vision Blue Resources (VBR), an investment company building a diversified portfolio of clean-energy metal and mineral investments, and an investor, director and advisor to other companies that are investments of VBR as well as in the financial services and technology sectors.

He stepped down as CEO of Xstrata plc in 2013, one of the world’s largest global diversified mining and metals companies, which he grew over a ten-year period from a market value of USD 500 million to USD 60 billion — employing more than 90,000 people and operating in over 22 countries.

Previously, Mick was an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Billiton plc and Chairman of Billiton Coal. Prior to joining Billiton, he was an Executive Director of South African state-owned Eskom, one of the world’s largest electricity utilities.

Mick has extensive capital markets and corporate transactions experience. During his career he has raised almost USD 40 billion from global capital markets and successfully completed over USD 120 billion of corporate transactions. His successes include the creation of the Ingwe Coal Corporation in South Africa; the listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange; the merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world; the initial public offering of Xstrata plc on the London Stock Exchange in 2002 and Xstrata’s subsequent acquisitions of MIM Holdings and Falconbridge Ltd, among others; and, most recently, the successful merger of Xstrata and Glencore.

Mick is a past President of the Council of Members and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Leadership Council of the United Kingdom, the umbrella body of the largest Jewish charities and institutions in the UK. He was Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission of the United Kingdom and is currently a member of the Board of the Institute for National Security Studies of Israel. Mick was knighted in 2015.

Steven Cohen is Group CEO and Deputy Chairperson of Macsteel Global Limited. He is Chairperson and Non-Executive Director of each of the Group’s three business units: Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd, MUR Group BV and Macsteel International Trading Holdings Limited. All three business units report directly to him. He also serves as Chairperson of Macsteel International USA Corp.

Steven has been part of the Macsteel Group for nearly 30 years, holding a range of senior executive positions. He was appointed Managing Director of the Cape Town division of Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd in 2007 and joined the Group Board in 2011.

In 2015, he joined the boards of Macsteel Global Sarl BV and Macsteel Holdings Luxembourg Sarl. In January 2018, he was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Macsteel International USA Corp and subsequently became CEO and Deputy Chairperson of Macsteel Global Sarl BV.

In 2022, Steven assumed his current Group CEO, Deputy Chairperson and Chairperson roles and became a Director of MacGlobal Management Limited and MUR Shipping Holdings Limited.

Alongside his corporate responsibilities, Steven oversees the family office and the Group’s international charitable foundations. He also serves as a trustee of several trusts and foundations, both within and outside the Group.

Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in Building Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from the University of Cape Town.

A Chartered Accountant CA(SA) with a Master’s degree in Commerce, Louis joined the Macsteel Group in 2009. He was appointed an Executive Director and Chairperson of Macsteel International Holdings BV (MIHBV) in 2012. Until 2022 he was Executive Deputy Chairman of Macsteel Global Sarl BV and Macsteel Holdings Luxembourg Sarl, Group CEO and Chairman of the Board of MIHBV, and a Board member of Macsteel International Trading Holdings BV, MUR Group BV and Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd (MSCSA). From 1 March 2023, Louis became a Non-Executive Director of Macsteel Global Limited and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Macsteel International Trading Holdings Limited, MUR Group BV and MSCSA.

Louis has many years of extensive management and business experience, particularly in the steel industry, and vast project management experience in major capital projects. Between 1976 and 1991 he held several senior management and financial positions at various leading industrial groups in South Africa. Between 1991 and 2004 he was the Executive Finance Director and CEO at Iscor Ltd, now ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd.

Michael Honiball is an Executive Director of Macsteel Global Limited, appointed as Chief Legal & Risk Officer of the Macsteel Group. He is a practising solicitor of England & Wales, and is a registered tax practitioner with, and a member of, the South African Institute of Tax Practitioners (SAIT). Michael is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the International Academy of Estate and Tax Law, the Law Society of England & Wales and the City of London Solicitors’ Company.

Michael is also a SAIT Master Tax Practitioner (SA) and Chartered Tax Advisor (SA). He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Stellenbosch, a Master of Laws, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Tax Law and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Corporate Law from RAU. Michael has many years of experience as a lawyer in practice and in managing professional services teams, and holds fiduciary roles and responsibilities for various entities within the Group as well as for other entities across a wide range of industries.

Franki Cohen holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She served as a Director at De Abreu & Cohen Inc Attorneys, Cape Town, until 2001, when she was appointed a Director of Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd, joining Macsteel’s Global Board of Directors in 2006. From 2017 to 2022 she served as a Director of Macsteel Holdings Luxembourg Sarl and Macsteel Global Sarl BV. Effective December 2022, Franki was appointed to the Boards of Macsteel Global Limited, MUR Group BV (MURGBV) and Macsteel International Trading Limited (MITH), as well as a member of the various Executive Management Committees for MURGBV and MITH.

Franki remains an active member of philanthropic trusts worldwide, dedicated to upholding her late father’s values and improving the well-being of those in need — socially, educationally and medically. She focuses on empowering students through scholarships and collaborates with others to address local and global social issues, her efforts embodying her father’s legacy and fostering positive change globally.

A graduate of the University of Cape Town and a Chartered Accountant CA(SA), Michael Hoffman joined Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd (MSCSA) on 1 July 1983. He was a director of Macsteel Global Sarl BV from 1 January 1991 to 20 December 2022 and was appointed to the Macsteel Global Limited Board on 31 December 2022. During his career Michael served as CEO of MSCSA and Macsteel Service Centres USA Corporation (MSCUSA), and as Executive Deputy Chairperson of Iskoor (Israel).

During his tenure he was involved in the merger and acquisition activities of the Group, including the successful disposal of MSCUSA and Iskoor, as well as the many capital projects undertaken during his 35-year-plus career.