Board and Management
Non-Executive Director (Chairperson) – QUINN LEE
Ms. Quinn Lee, a major shareholder in COY and a seasoned corporate executive, brings over 20 years of experience in the resources and development sectors. She has extensive expertise in asset divestment and project financing, having successfully led numerous significant asset sales for private and listed companies, thus ensuring proper value recognition for shareholders.
Ms. Lee’s appointment as COY’s Non-Executive Director and Chairperson follows her role as Executive Chairperson at Aldoro Resources (ASX: ARN). Under her leadership, Aldoro has achieved notable success in license renewal, fundraising, metallurgical testing, strategic revisions, board restructuring, and establishing key operations in Namibia. Additionally, she established and optimized ARN’s drilling capacity and activities, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency and value. Her tenure has seen the transition of mineral focus from REE to Nb, the execution of new surveys (including magnetic, trenching, sampling, and topography), and the establishment of supportive infrastructure and supply chains within a remarkably short timeframe.
Ms. Lee also established her own firm specializing in corporate development and investment services with focuses on mining project exploration, financing, investment, and development, with networks spanning Australia and China. In the past 18 months, Ms. Lee has facilitated transactions worth over $150 million AUD for public, private, and ASX-listed companies.
Managing Director – DICKSON LEAH
Dickson Leah is a Geologist with over 22 years of experience in Exploration, Project Development, Mining, and Resource Development in Australia and Papua New Guinea. He has extensive experience in the Mining and Exploration of Gold, Copper, Silver, Iron Ore (Hematite & Magnetite), Iron Oxide Copper Gold deposit and Manganese Ore and has held Senior operational positions with world class mining companies like, Northern Star Resources (Western Australia), Mineral Resources Limited (Western Australia) Cerro Resource’s Kalman Project in Mt Isa (Australia), Harmony Gold Hidden Valley Project (Papua New Guinea), OK Tedi Gold/Copper Mine (Papua New Guinea) and Porgera Gold Mine (Papua New Guinea).
He is a highly successful and accomplished Geologist. He was part of the team that delivered Moonbeam underground mining for Northern Star Resources which commenced operations in 2019 and was part of the team that commenced Iron ore mining in Kensbore, Onslow for Mineral Resources Limited. With long history in mining and exploration, he will bring vast experience to the Coppermoly team.
Mr. Dickson Leah has a Bachelor of Science (Geology) from University of Papua New Guinea and is currently a member of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)
Joint Company Secretaries – ROWAN HARLAND and ROBBIE FEATHERBY
Mr. Harland is a corporate advisor at SmallCap Corporate, a boutique corporate advisory firm specialising in providing company secretarial, CFO and transaction management services involving both listed and unlisted companies. Mr. Harland serves as Company Secretary for several listed and unlisted companies and holds a Master of Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Robbie Featherby is a Corporate Advisory Executive and Chartered Secretary who holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Finance and Economics and is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia. Mr Featherby has an extensive number of years’ experience in the financial services industry, having spent 4 years in London working at a leading investment research provider in the private equity sector.
Mr Featherby is a Company Secretary to a number of ASX-listed companies with a broad range of corporate governance experience and has been involved with public company listings, mergers and acquisitions transactions and capital raisings for ASX-listed companies
Non- Executive Director and Head of Technical – Dr MINLU FU
Dr Fu is a highly accomplished geologist who received his PhD from La Trobe University in 1989. From 1987 to 2000, Dr Fu worked for Western Mining Corporation in Australia and China as a research geologist, senior research geologist, and exploration manager.
He has significant maiden exploration success which includes the West Musgrave nickel deposit (Western Australia), the Tampakan copper gold deposit (Philippines), and the Ernest Henry copper-gold deposit (Queensland). Notably, Ernest Henry is one of Australia’s largest, long-life, low-cost copper-gold projects.
Further to Dr Fu’s technical involvement with a number of successful ASX listed companies he has also been instrumental in the discovery of the Jinxi-Yelmand epithermal gold deposit, the Huangtupo VMS copper, zinc, gold and silver deposit, the Jinhe copper-gold deposit, the South copper-gold deposit and the Huangtan volcanogenic gold deposit, all of which are based in Xinjiang -PRC.