American Battery Metals Corp. appoints new CEO
American Battery Metals Corp. appoints new CEO
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American Battery Metals Corp., Reno, Nevada, a lithium-ion battery recycling technology and battery metal extraction company that is changing its name to American Battery Technology Co (ABTC)., has appointed its current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Ryan Melsert as its new CEO. Melsert’s appointment is part of a leadership transition to prioritize the company’s technology development and commercialization efforts and to position the company for long-term growth.
"Ryan and I have been working together closely over the past two years to set the direction of this company and to help evolve it to where it is today," says Doug Cole, outgoing ABTC CEO. "Over the past few months, Ryan has increasingly taken over day-to-day leadership responsibilities, including setting long-term company strategies, leading investor presentations, developing high-value strategic partnerships and leading the recruiting and hiring of company executives. It is in the best interests of the company to formalize this leadership transition and to appoint him as company CEO, and I look forward to supporting this succession in every way needed going forward."
Melsert says, "I am humbled to receive this appointment to company CEO with full support from the board of directors.” He adds, "It has been a privilege to work alongside Doug, our independent board members, employees and other key stakeholders over the past two years to build this strong foundation upon which we will further accelerate our growth. We have an unprecedented set of tailwinds behind us as our technologies simultaneously address the critical needs of mitigating global climate change and the environmental impact of conventional battery metals mining, of producing lower cost battery metals to increase the penetration of electric storage solutions throughout the market and of increasing domestic production of battery metals to improve security of supply and national security interests. As we now reprioritize our resources to focus on the commercialization of our in-house developed technologies within the lithium-ion battery recycling and primary battery metals fields, we are excited to accelerate our contributions to solving these immense challenges."
"I have had the opportunities to work at some of the largest technology corporations in the world, as well as at some of the smallest technology startups, and there are a few paradigms that I’ve found to be true regardless of company size or stage of maturity," says ABTC Chief Operating Officer Andrés Meza. "One of them is that people follow leaders, not titles, and during my time at ABTC I have seen employees and stakeholders at all levels rally behind Ryan with a level of passion and commitment that I have rarely experienced. While his title is changing, we have all been following his vision and leadership from the beginning."
Melsert has more than 20 years of multidisciplinary technology development and business expertise, according to ABTC. In his CTO role over the past two years, Melsert instituted design practices to the technology development of novel systems for the extraction, purification and conversion of battery metals from lithium-ion batteries and primary metal resources, the company says. As CTO, he won the Greentown Labs/BASF Circularity Challenge award for the company’s lithium-ion battery recycling process. He has assembled a team of experts in chemical engineering, battery materials manufacturing, chemical plant design and construction and plant operations.
Melsert previously worked at Tesla for nearly four years and was one of the founding design engineers for the battery manufacturing Gigafactory near Reno. He also worked as R&D manager of the Advanced Energy & Transportation Technologies group at the Southern Research Institute, where he was awarded multiple Department of Energy grants and investments from corporations for the development and commercialization of technologies for the design and synthesis of engineered sorbents for the selective extraction of lithium from low-quality brines, the manufacturing of diesel and jet fuel substitutes from biomass resources, the use of solid-state devices for the production of electricity from low-temperature geothermal resources and for grid-scale reversible gas-solid thermochemical energy storage systems.
He has a variety of publications and patents and holds graduate degrees in mechanical engineering with a co-advisement in chemical engineering and an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
To further support its commercialization and growth strategy, the company’s board of directors has agreed to select a date for an annual shareholders meeting after the filing of its annual report at the end of September. The board intends to convene a search committee to qualify and nominate director candidates to be presented for shareholder vote during the annual meeting. Current founder-stage board members Cole, Douglas MacLellan and William Hunter have informed the company that they do not intend to seek reelection at the annual meeting.
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Source: Recycling Today
American Battery Metals Corp. appoints new CEO
<![CDATA[American Battery Metals Corp., Reno, Nevada, a lithium-ion battery recycling technology and battery metal extraction company that is changing its name to American Battery Technology Co (ABTC)., has appointed its current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Ryan Melsert as its new CEO. Melsert’s appointment is part of a leadership transition to prioritize the company’s technology development and commercialization efforts and to position the company for long-term growth."Ryan and I have been working together closely over the past two years to set the direction of this company and to help evolve it to where it is today," says Doug Cole, outgoing ABTC CEO. "Over the past few months, Ryan has increasingly taken over day-to-day leadership responsibilities, including setting long-term company strategies, leading investor presentations, developing high-value strategic partnerships and leading the recruiting and hiring of company executives. It is in the best interests of the company to formalize this leadership transition and to appoint him as company CEO, and I look forward to supporting this succession in every way needed going forward."Melsert says, "I am humbled to receive this appointment to company CEO with full support from the board of directors.” He adds, "It has been a privilege to work alongside Doug,…