Board of Directors

Mr Bleach is an accomplished corporate leader with over 40 years of experience in investment banking, funds management and infrastructure. He previously held Executive Director and CEO roles at Macquarie Group Limited’s North American business from 1999 to 2009 and was the CEO of Intoll Group Limited prior to its sale for A$3.5 billion in 2010. Mr Bleach served for 9 years as Non-Executive Director and Chair at IFM Investors Pty Ltd which oversaw A$113 billion of funds under management, and currently serves at AustralianSuper Pty Ltd as the ‘Infrastructure and Private Equity Expert’ for its Direct Investment Group and Transaction Review Committee. He also holds numerous Chair and Non-Executive Director roles at various funds, investment start-ups and not-for-profit ventures. Mr Bleach is a member of both The Australia Institute of Company Directors and The Institute of Charted Accountants. Mr Bleach holds a Bachelor of Arts (Financial Studies) and a Master’s in Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

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 Stuart was a founding director of Orocobre Limited, now Allkem (ASX: AKE) post-merger with Galaxy Resources in 2021. 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.).