# Martin C Holland Executive Chairman ## Career chronology - **Co-founder; executive services agreement commenced 21 Nov 2019; current at cutoff: Cobre Limited** — Co-founder and Executive Chairman. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, p. 10; service agreement, p. 16) - **2015–2018: Lithium Power International** — Founder and Chief Executive Officer. [Lithium Power International Annual Report 2016]() (Directors’ Report, director appointment table, p. 11); [Notice of Annual General Meeting]() (Information about Martin C Holland) - **Concurrent listed-company directorships disclosed in FY2025 annual report and 2026 notice: Armada Metals / Rapid Critical Metals** — Executive director / non-executive director. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, p. 10); [Notice of Annual General Meeting]() (Information about Martin C Holland) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### LPI advanced through listing and feasibility work during Holland’s CEO tenure [martin_holland_lpi] 2015–2018 · issuer reported · medium materiality LPI’s 2016 annual report says Holland was CEO from the company’s establishment in July 2015; LPI completed its ASX IPO in June 2016 and secured lithium tenements. A 2026 issuer notice says that during his 2015–2018 tenure he raised more than A$70m to progress projects from acquisition and exploration to DFS. These are issuer-reported outcomes; the source does not quantify realized shareholder returns. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. He was founder and CEO during the period; the fundraising and project progression are linked to his tenure, although team contributions and commodity-market effects are not separated. **Relevance:** Relevant capital formation and study-stage experience for Cobre; no producing mine delivery established. [Lithium Power International Annual Report 2016]() (Directors’ Report, p. 11); [Notice of Annual General Meeting]() (Information about Martin C Holland) ## Governance and interests ### FY2025 issuer report states no notified tenement-condition breaches [martin_holland_governance] FY2025 · issuer reported · low materiality Cobre reported no known breaches of tenement conditions and none notified by a government agency during FY2025. This is an issuer statement about company compliance, not an independent audit of Holland personally or other periods. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Holland was Executive Chairman during the reported year; no individual compliance action or personal responsibility is identified. **Relevance:** A limited company-level environmental-compliance indicator relevant to oversight. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, Environmental Regulation, p. 9) ## Suitability for the current role ### Corporate finance and listed-company experience; exploration delivery remains unproven [martin_holland_fit] 2015–2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality Holland co-founded Cobre and has mining M&A and corporate-finance experience; the issuer identifies him as founder and former CEO of LPI. His career is relevant to capital formation and transactions, but the reviewed evidence does not show a mine construction or operating record personally delivered. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit judgment draws on issuer biographies and disclosed LPI experience; no causal claim beyond his documented CEO role. **Relevance:** Relevant to a junior explorer pursuing acquisitions and funding, with limited evidenced operator experience. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, p. 10); [Notice of Annual General Meeting]() (Information about Martin C Holland) ## Evidence gaps - Holland’s degrees and professional memberships were not established. - Full director and company-outcome history beyond LPI, Cobre and disclosed concurrent roles remains incomplete. - No benchmark-adjusted shareholder-return analysis was completed for LPI. - Adverse-topic research is open-web and name-based; formal court, ASIC, sanctions and professional-register checks were not exhaustive.