American Battery Metals Corporation (OTCQB:ABML) said it has appointed its chief technical officer Ryan Melsert to its board of directors.
Melsert joined the company in September 2019 and helped it win the coveted Greentown Labs/BASF Circularity Challenge award for the company's first-of-kind lithium-ion battery recycling process.
He has also assembled a technical team of experts in chemistry, battery engineering, and plant operations and is advancing the company towards the initial construction phase of its first lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada.
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Before joining American Battery Metals, Melsert was the research & development (R&D) manager for Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) (FRA:TL0) Gigafactory battery materials processing group.
"I'm grateful for the appointment to the board. Our team is motivated and eager to launch our battery recycling facility, to begin producing high quality, battery-grade metals from end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap materials feedstock", Melsert said in a statement.
"Ryan is uniquely qualified to be an officer of our company and to serve on our board as a director. He is one of the world's brightest minds in the battery metals and manufacturing industries, and he is also a strategic business thinker who knows how to turn market challenges into opportunities," added American Battery Metals chief executive Doug Cole.
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