Meet the CEO who turns to the All Blacks for inspiration
Evolution boss Jake Klein, who aims to create the ‘world’s best gold company’, offers some key lessons gleaned from more than two decades in the industry.
Jake Klein says he never intended to have a career in the gold industry. Louie Douvis
As a bachelor of commerce student at the University of Cape Town in the mid-1980s, Jake Klein was certainly not contemplating a career in the gold industry. Rather, he saw himself as an investment banker.
“When I graduated from university as an accountant, if you’d given me a list of careers that I was going to pursue, gold would not have been on it. Nor would gold in China, nor gold anywhere,” says Klein, founder and executive chairman of Evolution Mining, Australia’s third-largest gold explorer.
Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London. Connect with Sally on Twitter. Email Sally at spatten@afr.com
