People

Our international team brings decades of global mining and chemical industry expertise

Board of directors

 A wealth of technical expertise
Lithium is as much about the chemical business as it is about mining. Our board brings decades of experience in both industries.

Anton

Anton
Du Plessis

Chief Executive Officer

25+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Mining finance, M&A

Anton’s background is in global investment banking, specialising in strategy and financing for natural resources companies.

Cherif
Rifaat

Chief Financial Officer

20+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Finance

Cherif is a chartered accountant with a background in venture capital, corporate finance and operational turnaround.

Jeremy
Martin

Non-Executive Chairman

20+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Geology and Project development

Jeremy has been involved in the formation of mineral resource companies in South America, central America and Europe.

Graham
Brown

Non-Executive Director

40+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Geology

Graham is an exploration geologist by training. He was previously Head of Geosciences for the Anglo American group.

Dr Stefan
Scherer

Non-Executive Director

20+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Specialty Chemicals

Stefan has extensive global experience in R&D and process development in the lithium industry. He is CEO of AMG Lithium GmbH.

Peter
Secker

Non-Executive Director

35+ years experience

Field of expertise:
Mining Engineering

Peter has built and operated mines and metallurgical processing facilities on four continents. He is CEO of Bacanora Lithium Plc.

Marko Uhlig

Managing Director, Zinnwald Lithium GmbH

Marko is a seasoned manager with a wealth of commercial experience gained over a career of more than 30 years. He grew up in Saxony and is a graduate of Freiberg University. Marko has worked in Germany as well as internationally for companies including ThyssenKrupp AG and SKW Metallurgie AG.

The Team

Our multinational team brings mining expertise from all over the world

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Zinnwald Lithium?

Zinnwald Lithium is seeking to build a world-leading, highly economic business that will uphold high environmental standards. Find out more about the investment case.

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Highlights of the March 2024 operational update

Exploring the implications of a larger total resource and a more efficient processing route backed by Metso of Finland. ...
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Highlights of the revised mineral resource estimate

The Zinnwald deposit is now the EU's second-largest hard-rock lithium resource. What does this mean for the project? ...
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Anton

25+ years experience

Field of expertise

Mining finance, M&A

Anton has over 25 years’ experience in the mining, industrial and finance sectors. During this time, he held senior positions at several international investment banks including CIBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley with a focus on advising natural resources companies on the execution of strategic and financing transactions. He has worked on transactions across a range of commodities and for several leading global companies including Anglogold Ashanti, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Prior to embarking on his investment banking career, Anton worked for the Anglo American group in a corporate finance and business development capacity.

20+ years experience

Field of expertise

Finance

Cherif is a UK chartered accountant with more than 20 years of venture capital, corporate finance, operational turnaround and investor relations experience since his qualification with KPMG. He has primarily worked with technology, mining and real estate companies, with an emphasis on those in a start-up, pre-IPO or restructuring phase. He has been a corporate and financial adviser to the lithium mining company, Bacanora Lithium plc, since it listed on AIM in 2014, and is currently its company secretary. Cherif has been a member of the ICAEW since 1998.

20+ years experience

Field of expertise

Geology and Project development

Jeremy was one of the original founders of the Company in 2012 and has performed both non-executive director and non-executive chairman roles. He is a geologist with over 25 years experience with a track record of discovery and project development in precious and critical minerals across Latin America and Europe. He has a strong technical background covering early-stage exploration, feasibility study, project evaluation, permitting, sustainability reporting and structuring, and ultimately to project development. He has broad capital markets experience on AIM and the TSX, having completed a number of IPOs, and established JVs and or partnerships with some of the leading major mining companies, including Anglogold, Teck, Glencore and Vale. He holds a BSc (Hons) from the Camborne School of Mines and MSc.

40+ years experience

Field of expertise

Geology

Graham has has been a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (“SEG”) since 1999, participated in the Colombia Senior Executives programme in 2004 and the Duke Business Leaders programme in 2007. He is a past councillor of the SEG and current British Geological Survey industry adviser and Natural History Museum honorary research fellow. In 2011, he was the co-recipient of the PDAC Thayer Lindsley Award and from 2013 attained both Chartered Geologist and European Geologist professional status. Graham joined Amax as an exploration geologist in 1980 and worked on a variety of exploration and mining operations in the Circum-Pacific region. For almost a decade, he worked as a consultant involved with the exploration and evaluation of a number of major discoveries in both Asia and Europe. In 1994, he joined Minorco as Chief Geologist. Subsequently he became the Europe-Asia region’s Vice President Exploration and following the Minorco-Anglo American plc merger in 1999, he served as Vice President Geology. In 2003 he was appointed Senior Vice President Exploration and managed geosciences, technical services, and R&D programmes. In 2005 he was promoted to Head of Base Metals Exploration and in 2010 he took up the position of Group Head of Geosciences for the Anglo American Group. He is currently a senior adviser to Appian Capital, a prominent private equity fund focussed on mining.

20+ years experience

Field of expertise

Specialty chemicals

Dr. Scherer has +20 years’ experience in the speciality and fine chemical industries having studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Darnstadt and completed a PhD in Organic Chemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.  He is currently Chief Executive Officer of AMG Lithium GmbH and Chief Commercial Officer of AMG Lithium BV, where he is responsible for AMG’s downstream lithium business and its overall lithium development strategy.   Prior to this, he held various R&D, operational, and management positions including roles at Albemarle and Rockwood Lithium/Chemetall.

20+ years experience

Field of expertise

Mining engineering

Peter is a mining engineer with over 35 years’ experience in the resources industry. During his career, he has built and operated a number of mines and metallurgical processing facilities in Africa, Australia, China and Canada. His operating and project experience spans several commodities, including titanium, copper, iron ore, gold and lithium. For the past 15 years, Peter has been Chief Executive of several publicly listed companies in Canada, the UK and Australia; he is currently CEO of Bacanora Lithium plc.

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