Board of Directors

Mr Pathmanathan was the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Lithium Consolidated Ltd, an ASX-listed company, which had one of the largest portfolios of hard rock lithium exploration assets, globally. Mr Pathmanathan has 14 years of investment banking experience in the metals and mining, oil and gas and chemicals sectors. He was Vice President with Deutsche Bank's investment banking division and previously held investment banking and principle investment roles with Macquarie Group in Australia and New York. Mr Pathmanathan has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Australia.

Mr Forni is a senior finance professional with over 25 years of investment banking experience. Mr Forni was a former Senior Managing Director of Macquarie Holdings (USA) and held non-executive director roles with numerous Macquarie Group entities and GLI Finance Ltd. Mr Forni holds a B.A. in Economics from Connecticut College, a J.D., awarded cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University Law School.

Mr. Borg brings 25+ years of mining and exploration experience, including significant exposure to West Africa’s lithium industry through his current role as a director of Leo Lithium Ltd (ASX: LLL). Mr. Borg is a geologist with significant battery materials sector experience, having participated in numerous successful projects in both investment and operational capacities. He has nearly three decades of experience in management, operations, and project development roles across the mineral exploration and mining industries with companies including Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Magnis Resources Limited, Celsius Resources Limited, Tempus Resources Limited, Firefinch Limited. He holds a Master of Science in Hydrogeology and Groundwater Management from the University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor of Science in Geology/Environmental Science from Monash University, and is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).

Mr Stuart was a founding director of Orocobre Limited, now Arcadium Lithium (ASX: LTM) post-merger with Galaxy Resources in 2021 and Livent in 2024. Mr Stuart is an exploration geologist with over 40 years' of experience and is a member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists and a Fellow of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has considerable experience across several commodities and was heavily involved in project delineation and acquisition in Australia, Mexico and Argentina. Over the last 20 years, he was involved with the exploration and commercial development of lithium projects. Mr Stuart is on the board of numerous ASX listed companies and is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (BSc.) and James Cook University (MSc.).