About Us

Different thinkers driving innovative technologies, methodologies and intelligence

Business Profile

A highly experienced team of innovative thinkers with a longstanding successful track record

  • Significant experience in multi-commodity global mining operations
  • Sustainable asset strategy and corporate direction planning
  • Business turnaround expertise
  • Programme and project management
  • Advanced understanding of an organisation’s expertise, skills, capabilities and behaviours and the gaps therein

Business Capabilities Summary

Team Members

Patricia van Dam

Patricia has over 28 years of transformational/change management, strategy development and sustainability integration experience having worked in global corporations in Europe including General Manager and Executive General Manager levels and in management consulting in Australia (Energy & Utilities, Health, Mining & Natural Resources – Rio Tinto, BHP and Anglo American). Patricia applies a sustainable value-driven approach to programme, project, change and functional/line management and a deep understanding of cultural and behavioural change to deliver innovative solutions, continuous improvement and significant returns. 

Examples of development and delivery of major transformations include: business integration programme (TNT Group); global best practice sharing programme (Vodafone Group); major process and systems changeouts in an Australian energy distributor and retailer; a full operating model transformation of Resource Development and Strategic Mine Planning (Rio Tinto); the development and implementation of a Joint Ownership Model for Resource Development, Mining Studies and Life of Asset Planning across Technical Services and Business Units and Strategy Articulation for Sustainability Integration (Sustainability from “in Design” to “in Operations”) across Mining functions (Anglo American).

Together with Peter and Andrew, Patricia has developed Qeyviews and Qeysights applications that deliver highly effective and immediately actionable people and cultural analysis applicable to operational business performance improvement and risk reduction for investments, mergers and acquisitions (i.e. “cultural due diligence”).

Over the past years Patricia has applied her skills and experience to mining investment due diligences. Together with her partners, comprehensive directional, managerial, cultural, technical, operational, environmental, community, social, economic, legal and regulatory reviews and assessments of multiple Australian and international mining investment projects were delivered. Their asset repositioning, new direction setting and financial modelling has identified significant increases in NPV and ROI for each of the projects.

Patricia’s international credentials span from Business Economics to Change Management, Risk Management and Neuro Linguistics, completed across Europe, UK, Ireland and Australia.

Andrew Lovell

Andrew is a results-orientated and highly experienced leader with 40 years of domestic and international experience in mining and service provider companies covering underground and open pit in a variety of commodities. Andrew has a track record of innovative thinking and delivering value through mine optimisation, design, technology and process improvement.

Andrew has:

  • The ability to think differently to identify and develop alternative and enhanced business strategies and influence key stakeholders in the implementation of these strategies.
  • A strong technical background covering mine automation, mine planning, strategic value optimisation, fleet management systems and mining software.
  • Proven leadership skills to lead and develop high performing technical teams. Achieving results through people, which is underpinned by a project management-based accountability culture.
  • Extensive international mining experience in Australia, South Africa, USA, Canada, Colombia and Indonesia, both open cut and underground, covering a broad range of commodities including coking and thermal coal, iron ore, copper, gold, uranium, tin, silver, lead and zinc.
  • A track record of delivering projects on time and to budget.
  • Expert level outcome focused workshop design and facilitation skills that deliver highly efficient and effective results.

Collaborators

collaborators

We work with experienced independent contractors, specialist consultancies and a recruiter to provide the right resources for the projects we develop and execute with clients.

  • Like-minded people with proven track records covering a broad and far reaching range of capabilities and skills
  • High performing teams with the required combinations of capabilities and skills
  • The right resources for the right amount of time
  • Protect the client from “bench resources” being allocated to a project who do not have the required capabilities and, in essence, “burn cash”

Why IQEMY?

We have the right team

A committed, highly experienced team that is supported by a broad network of collaborating subject matter experts

We have the right plan

A clear delivery approach that aligns the project, deployment and technical approaches

We have the proven approach

Combination of proven intellectual property (project and change methodologies, tools, techniques and templates)

Enhanced with innovation (unique, state-of–the-art insights systems, and leading edge business support and business process modelling tools)

We have done it before

Delivered multiple major transformations for global miners and energy and utilities companies

We always incorporate the improvement areas and learnings of previous work into new programmes and projects