Green Leader is managed by John Macdonald from Perth, Western Australia. John Macdonald was a mining analyst for stockbrokers Eyres Reed Limited and CIBC World Markets Australia from 1986 to 2001. In 2002 he set out to fill a niche of high quality research services to the mining and investment sectors.

Green Leader Mining Research is a trading name of Craigmile Research Pty Ltd, holder of AFS licence number 313238.