Mr Cooper has an engineering, sales and business operations background with over 25 years experience as a senior executive in the construction, manufacturing and quarrying industries working with and for global OEMs such as Liebherr, Sandvik and Hitachi. Mr Cooper has held previous (and current) directorships and senior executive roles at regional and global levels for major global OEMs and has recently been group CEO of ASX listed company, Bisalloy Steel Group Limited (ASX:BIS).