Mr Cranston is an experienced mining executive with a background in corporate and mining law. He is the principal of corporate advisory and administration firm Konkera Corporate and has extensive experience in the areas of equity capital markets, corporate finance, structuring, asset acquisition, corporate governance and external stakeholder relations.
Mr Cranston holds both a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia. He is currently the Non Executive Chairman of Carbine Resources (ASX:CRB), Vital Metals (ASX:VML), African Gold (ASX:A1G) and Benz Mining Corp (TSXV:BZ, ASX:BNZ).
Mr Mitchell has more than 25 years’ experience in senior commercial, strategy, sales and business development roles including 15 years specialising in lithium, battery materials and critical minerals. Mr Mitchell has held senior executive and board-level roles with ASX and offshore public companies in the global battery value chain and electric vehicle ecosystem.
Mr Mitchell was previously managing director of Global Lithium Resources Limited (ASX:GL1) and held senior executive roles at Tianqi Lithium Corporation (SHE:02466) and Talison Lithium (ex-TSX:TAL). He was also elected the inaugural Chairman of the London Metal Exchange (LME) Lithium and Cobalt Committee, a role he held for more than five years.
Mr Li is a Chartered Accountant with extensive professional experience across several key sectors which include the resource industry, international trade, capital markets, project manage IPOs and spin-outs and financial accounting. His experience includes being employed by, and acting as, Director and CFO of several companies, predominantly in the resources sector. Prior to these roles, he managed a private base metal exploration company in the NT of Australia and assisted in commissioning an AUD 150M Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide (EMD) plant in Hunan China.
Mr Li is currently a Non-Executive Director of Macro Metals Limited.
Mr Pattison brings over 20 years’ experience in the resources sector across corporate finance and operational roles. Qualified as chartered accountant, he has extensive experience in operations, finance, strategy and corporate finance. Mr Pattison has been the Managing Director of a number of listed and private mining companies over the past 10 years and also CEO of a listed mining service Company.
Mr Pattinson is currently the Executive Chairman of PC Gold Pty Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of Industrial Minerals Ltd (ASX.IND) and Macro Metals Ltd.
Mr Grosvenor is an experienced mining executive with over 25 years’ experience in the Mining and Power industry.
Mr Grosvenor holds a dual tertiary qualification in Engineering and a Master in Business.
Mr Hoffman is a globally recognised expert in battery materials, with over 30 years of experience across investment management, energy, and the metals and mining sectors. He previously served as Global Head of Battery Materials at McKinsey & Company, where he led strategic planning, supply chain integration, and capital-raising initiatives for clients across the global battery value chain. Ken has conducted over 100 due diligence assessments on battery technologies and critical mineral assets and has developed AI-based evaluation frameworks for leading industry stakeholders.
Prior to his tenure at McKinsey, Ken was Global Head of Metals & Mining Research at Bloomberg and held senior investment roles as Portfolio Manager and Global Director of Research at major funds including Millennium Partners and MarCap Investors.
Mr Allen is a mining executive with more than 20 years experience in marketing of manganese, lithium and a range of other commodities.
He previously held the MD of Marketing for Consolidated Minerals Limited which operates Woodie Woodie mine in WA and Nsuta Manganese mine in Ghana.
He assisted manganese focused explorer Element 25 (ASX.E25) and Gulf Manganese Corporation (ASX.GMC) with PFS & product marketing. More recently, he was the marketing manager for AVZ Minerals (ASX.AVZ), a company focussed on the Manono lithium project.