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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Martin C Holland

Executive Chairman

Career chronology

Contributions and company outcomes

LPI advanced through listing and feasibility work during Holland’s CEO tenure

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

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

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.