Quentin Flannery

Quentin Flannery, an accomplished investor, continues to have a critical role in overseeing and developing the portfolios of several family-owned companies. His primary role is director and investor at Illwella Pty Ltd, an Australian investment firm, but Flannery also has a variety of non-executive director/board member positions for several smaller early-stage start-ups. In addition, he’s also a director of the Flannery Foundation, a nonprofit charity that supports victims of homeless and abuse, as well as a corporate ambassador for Act for Kids, an Australian charity that focuses on preventing child abuse and neglect. Flannery’s various roles require a combination of knowledge of global financial markets and commodities, along with an entrepreneurial spirit, interpersonal skills and even some philanthropy thrown in. Quentin Flannery graduated from St. Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace in Queensland, and then earned a bachelor’s degree in international business, Chinese studies, from Queensland University of Technology in 2008. In 2013, he was hired as the marketing manager for Yancoal, (ASX:YAL), a Sydney-based commodity company. As its youngest marketing manager, he focused on building and developing relationships with current and prospective clientele at a global level especially China and other Asian countries. Initially, Flannery focused on marketing efforts and even created a 5-year plan providing strategies to increase sales as well as optimize products, open new sales channels and build customer relationships. As the organization grew, company executives promoted him to global head of Thermal Coal Sales, which included managing its portfolio which, at the time, was valued at more than $1 billion in sales. He left the company in 2015 and the next year joined Illwella Pty Ltd where he oversees the company’s strategies and trading opportunities for its investment portfolio. He also began taking on director and non-director leadership roles for a variety of companies, most of which were at the start-up stages. Some are in Australia and some are based in Asia. These included AuMake International, an Asian commerce business; Delta Coal, a thermal coal mining firm; Sunset Power, an energy supplier; Field Orthopaedics, a medical device provider; and Elysian Capital, a hedge fund that’s focused on weather-based commodity trading. Each company was experiencing unique challenges as well as unique products, services and customer bases, so Quentin Flannery continues to enjoy helping these organizations find solutions and build relationships to allow them to thrive. For instance, Field Orthopaedics, which creates medical devices, benefits from collaboration between scientists, engineers, doctors, and scientists to develop products that are effective and practical. Quentin Flannery’s role is to offer strategic guidance to the CEO and interact with other team members in order to keep more products in development. Quentin Flannery is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.