Quentin Flannery

Quentin Flannery is an Australian business executive and investment manager in Sydney, Australia, where he is responsible for growing and maturing the investment profile and platform to diversify holdings and maximise profitability.

Flannery is also the Director of several family offices, overseeing strategy and trading to grow investment portfolios. He has broad experience in sales, marketing, and investment strategy across a range of industries, including energy production, civil engineering and construction, exports, emerging technologies, and real estate development.

In every position Quentin Flannery has held, the common thread is his dynamic, entrepreneurial and progressive approach. Whether he’s working with an early-stage start-up or a listed company, Flannery sources new opportunities and guides companies toward growth.

Quentin Flannery attended St. Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace, from 1997 to 2004. Upon graduation, he attended the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), earning his Bachelor’s Degree in International Business in 2008. Flannery also studied Chinese Language and Literature at Qingdao University in Qingdao, Shandong, China.

Early Career

After Flannery graduated from university, he began his career at Yancoal Australia Ltd (ASX:YAL listed), helping to grow the company into Australia’s largest pure-play coal producer. He was the youngest marketing manager in the company’s history before earning a promotion to Global Head of Thermal Coal Sales, where he delivered $1BN (USD) in revenue, established a company presence in China and across Asia, and significantly increased coal export volumes and contracted sales.

While at Yancoal, Quentin Flannery:

• Delivered significant improvements to marketing and logistics deployment, implementing SAP into the marketing department to replace legacy, poor-performing systems.
• Grew relationships in Asia and secured the first sales contracts with tier 1 customers such as Taipower, TNB, Taiwan Cement, Huaneng and Joban Electric, travelling to the region regularly to meet new partners and customers and develop a presence in China.
• Uplifted coal export volumes from 2M tonnes with large clients, overseeing development of sales in Japan, negotiating contracts for more than 1M tonnes of product direct to end users.
• Contributed significantly to a 5-year marketing strategy, determining focus for sales and optimisation of products across global markets.
• Developed and implemented a strategy to increase contracted sales to >80%, contributing to establishing a sales entity, streamlining product blending and optimisation of sales.
• Maintained high standards of product turnover, with no incidences of stock bound mines.
• Acquired a subpar Brisbane mine and drove sales to 75% of Tier 1 customers, taking market share from competitors by utilising technical experts to demonstrate the product’s superiority.

Director and Chairman Positions

Quentin Flannery sits on the boards or serves as Director of many family companies, from early-stage start-ups to listed entities. Since 2017, he has served as a Non-Executive Director for AuMake International (ASX:AU8), a rapid-growth company that connects Australian and New Zealand brands with the Asian market through online and offline channels, specializing in ecommerce.

In addition, Flannery keeps his finger on the pulse of the energy sector as the Director for Delta Coal Fund Pty Ltd, a thermal coal mining company that operates the Chain Valley Colliery and Mannering Colliery in Australia, and as the Director or Sunset Power International, a New South Wales energy supplier. He also manages a specialist fund through Elysian Capital, focusing on weather-based commodity trading, and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of the medical device start-up company, Field Orthopaedics. More recently, he has become the Director of Printed Energy, a Sydney-based company that produces thin, printed flexible batteries.

• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
• On the board of six major companies based in Australia and abroad.
• The youngest marketing manager of Yancoal, a large coal mining company in Australia.

Flannery has a wide range of experience in interconnected industries and international business. He uses his front-line understanding of global markets and his fine-tuned sense for opportunity to his advantage, seeking out investments in dynamic, changing industries to increase ROI.

Quentin Flannery is a corporate ambassador for Act for Kids, a Sydney, Australia charity that provides therapy and support services to children and families who have experienced or are at risk for abuse and neglect. Act for Kids has helped thousands of Australian kids and families over the past 30 years, growing to 28 centres and 430 staff members, and expanding services to include integrated therapy, practical support, workshops, and residential safe houses in vulnerable, remote Aboriginal communities.

Flannery also runs the Flannery Foundation, a family foundation that started in 2010 to support other Australian charities. The foundation focuses on charities that help Australia’s most vulnerable by addressing homelessness and women and children who are experiencing abuse. By providing a stable source of support, the Flannery Foundation helps charitable organizations effectively scale their operations year after year.