American Battery Technology Company (OTCQB:ABML) said it has nominated four 'highly qualified' and 'accomplished' candidates from across the automotive OEMs, clean energy, finance, and sustainability industries as independent director candidates at its upcoming annual meeting of shareholders.
Elizabeth Lowery, Sherif Marakby, Richard Fezell and Julie Blunden were selected following an extensive, six-month vetting process led by a prominent third-party board services advisory firm, said the American critical minerals and lithium-ion battery recycling firm.
Lowery has held numerous executive roles during a 20-year tenure at General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) (GM), including General Counsel for GM North America and Corporate Vice President of Environment, Energy, and Safety Policy. As a former managing director at TPG Capital, she also played a key role developing its formal Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) strategy.
Marakby, meanwhile, brings 'significant' operating experience in the automotive OEM industry from a 31-year career in the transformation, electrification, and technology innovation and AV development fields.
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Fezell has 35 years under his belt as a former auditor and senior partner at Ernst & Young (EY), where he held multiple leadership roles.
While serving as the Americas Vice Chair for Markets, Fezell oversaw growth for a $15 billion audit practice, noted American Battery.
Finally, Blunden has more than three decades of executive experience advising rapidly growing, emerging energy companies on their transition to sector leaders in the power generation, retail power, solar, and energy storage industries.
She brings extensive consumer and retail channel development in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
The company also highlighted that the previous IPO and public investments experiences of these board members will be "pivotal to driving to completion the company's re-IPO process as it continues the uplisting of its shares on the Nasdaq exchange".
CEO Ryan Melsert said in a statement: "We are proud to continue to achieve significant milestones as we accelerate the construction of our first integrated lithium-ion battery recycling facility, the design and validation of our low-cost and low-environmental footprint demonstration system for the manufacturing of battery grade lithium hydroxide from domestic US sedimentary claystone resources, and the formalizing of partnerships with our peers both upstream and downstream of our operations."
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