Kerry Gleeson

Ms Gleeson is an experienced Chair and Non-executive Director in the mining industry, following a career as a senior executive in the chemical and explosives industry and as a corporate lawyer in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Ms Gleeson has experience in international governance, strategic mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions, as well as in risk and crisis management. Ms Gleeson was a member of the Group Executive at Incitec Pivot Limited for ten years until 2013, including as Company Secretary and General Counsel, overseeing the legal and governance aspects of its international operations in explosives and chemicals, mining, transport and logistics. Ms Gleeson led the Corporate Affairs team in government, media and regulatory affairs and led major environmental remediation projects. Earlier in her career, she was a corporate finance and transactional partner in an English law firm, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings (IPOs) and, on relocating to Australia over 25 years ago, joined Australian law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst).