Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s private investment chief was deeply involved in decisions made by Fortescue as the ASX-listed mining giant considered deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to evidence provided to a court.
The Forrest family controls almost 37 per cent of Fortescue. Andy Vesey, an executive at the company, told a Connecticut court that John Hartman – at the time the chief investment officer of Tattarang and now its chief executive – was intimately involved in Fortescue’s push into clean energy.
Source: https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/forrest-family-powerbroker-hartman-allegedly-decided-fortescue-deals-20250306-p5lhlm