Eastern Metals Limited announced that Ms. Ley Kingdom has been appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Ley is a qualified geologist with over 25 years' experience having worked for Western Mining Corporation, BHP and a number of juniors and mid-tiers on greenfield projects through to resource definition and feasibility. Ley has a comprehensive understanding of resource projects and their development, and with her broad experience, brings an important range of skills to the Company.

Ley formed her own exploration company, Highland Resources Ltd. in 2021, which she subsequently vended into a development company with gold reserves in north Queensland. In that role as Managing Director and CEO, she successfully presented to investors, brokers and corporate entities. Prior to that, Ley held a corporate role with Round Oak Minerals Pty Ltd. Round Oak was a precious and base metals, mining and exploration company with operations across four states.

Before that, Ley worked with a number of junior to mid-sized resource companies as Project Geologist through to Exploration Manager across a number of jurisdictions and commodities, including gold, base metals, lithium, iron ore and coal. Ley spent two years with the Victorian Government where she worked with resources companies and led projects through the State's complex approvals process with a view to expediting projects and improving government decision making. For part of this time, Ley was seconded to the Department of Premier and Cabinet to work on a review of the Victorian government's brown coal programs and initiatives over 15 years (Edwards Review).

This review included an assessment of the risks and opportunities for future investment in pre-commercial brown coal technologies. In the early 2000s, Ley worked with the Central Land Council advising Traditional Owners and their representatives, as well as exploration and mining companies, on access to land subject to the Native Title Act 1993 in the Northern Territory.