When he joined Triple point Technology in November 2010, Donald Leroux brought with him 25 years of mining industry experience. From Process Engineer with the Brunswick concentrator and Team Leader at the Noranda Technology Centre, he became Lead-Mineral Processing for the Raglan Expansion Project and Director-Technology with COREM. While at COREM, he was responsible for the deployment of innovative technologies for processing a wide range of minerals (including iron, titanium, copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver). He had previously spent 14 years at various Noranda/Falconbridge (now Glencore) operations, including 6 years at the Brunswick and Raglan concentrators.

Leroux has received mining and metallurgical engineering degrees from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada) including a PhD for a study conducted in collaboration with CSIRO (Melbourne, Australia) on the modeling of mineral liberation. He has been a member of the Canadian Mineral Processors (CMP) Board of Directors since 2009.