Lead with purpose
Overview
We are dedicated to accomplishing our goals through our people and our purpose.
To date, we've assembled an integrated delivery team of over 100 people. This includes the core in-house leadership team and an embedded roster of industry-leading commercial delivery partners.
To achieve our ambition of building the UK's first and greenest chemical lithium hydroxide refinery, we knew that we'd need to put together an exceptional team capable of delivering. And that's exactly what we have done.
Our project is headed up by a highly-effective board and in-house execution team, who have a wealth of industry experience in each of their respective fields and proven senior leadership records.
A project such as ours must be strategically addressed and tactically managed, which requires a combination of experienced people and the right delivery partners enabled for success. We have made these principles front and centre of our execution strategy by ensuring that our people, our processes and our systems are all geared towards successful delivery.
To date, we have attracted and will continue to work to attract the best possible talent.
Sean Sargent
MEng, CEng, FICE
Chief Executive Officer
31-year track record leading and delivering multi-billion-pound, critical infrastructure projects ranging from £100m to £15bn, with recent director positions at Jacobs and project/site director roles at Magnox, among others.
Dominic Kieran
MBA, FAPM, MEng
Chair of the Board
Senior executive and currently Babcock Nuclear CEO who, over a 24-year career, has built extensive skills and knowledge in sectors and projects relevant to Green Lithium; holder of an MBA and a chemical engineer by background.
Alex Cheeseman
MSc
Non-Executive Director
21-year career, now as a managing director at lithium mineral exploration company Critical Resources, with experience negotiating high-value offtake contracts, and previous experience at Morella Corporation, Altura Mining and in BHP Billiton's Western Australia Iron business.
Delivering a critical project such as this requires the best proven delivery-focused personnel the large-scale energy infrastructure industry has to offer.
Sean Sargent, Chief Executive Officer
Richard Taylor
FGS
Marketing Director & Co-Founder
Company founder and vision behind the Green Lithium project with wide-ranging energy and natural resources market/sector knowledge built over a 11-year career with roles at Petrofac, Maersk Oil and Deloitte.
Guy Hatcher
MSc, FSG
Head of Strategic Business Development & Co-Founder
Member of the British Standards Institute committee for lithium, with 12 years’ experience building broad mining and mineralogy experience, including at Barrick Gold and Rio Tinto, and recently evaluating prospective lithium mining sites in the UK.
Jo Charles
BA (Hons), CA
Chief Financial Officer
11 years of career experience, most recently in investment banking at Rothschild & Co – other roles include corporate valuations and transaction advisory services at KPMG, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Cameron Tonkin
MSc, BAgSci
Chief Operating Officer
Accomplished industry leader specialising in major infrastructure programmes, with a 25-year career in UK and Australia, including as Defence Sector Director and Power Sector Director at Costain Group with full P&L accountability and teams of 350+ and other roles including at WSP Group.
Greg Bogie
MBA
Commercial Director
Senior executive with 17 years’ experience as key commercial interface between large-scale, complex engineering businesses and their enterprise/supply chain partners, including roles at Highways England, EDF (Hinkley Point C) and Babcock Networks.
Charlie Tasker
MEng
Construction & Site Development Manager
36-years’ experience of delivering UK process/power programmes, most recently as Site Development & Construction Director for Horizon Nuclear Power, working on enablers required to achieve a DCO for the Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Power Plant in Angelsey.
Georgina Searle
MA, CMCIPD
People & Talent Manager
21-year career with diverse experience delivering human capital solutions for large, complex organisations, such as LafargeHolcim, Siniat and more recently a UK-based startup, specifically supporting a new build 24x7 manufacturing facility.
Milan Thakore
MSc, BSc
Market & Strategy Manager
7 years of experience in the energy, commodities and battery supply chain sectors, with roles as senior research analyst at Wood Mackenzie and in industry as principal business analyst at Johnson Matthey’s battery metals division.
Matt Fryer
ChPP, CIPS, BA
Head of Project Controls
19-year career building extensive project controls leadership experience including on projects such as Sizewell C, Clyde Ports and Wylfa Newydd for companies including Babcock International Jacobs Engineering and Magnox.
Aimee Hill
BA (Hons), LSS GB
Head of Supply Chain
20 years of global supply-chain leadership and commercial management, including within the chemical, industrials, automotive and battery sectors with recent roles at Johnson Matthey’s battery materials division and Cummins Inc.
Charlotte Anderson
CIMA, AAT
Finance Manager
9 years of career experience as management accountant and finance manager, managing BAU and complex implementation projects, including at chemical processor and manufacturer SEQENS Custom Specialties.
Max Hunt
Bcom, CA
Corporate Development Manager
5 years of professional services experience with PwC. Max has worked in the Corporate Finance and Private Business teams and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Michael Howe
BSc Eng
Project Manager – Scale Up Plant (SUP)
Mechanical engineer with 16 years’ experience in both brownfield and greenfield major projects within the oil and gas industry, within roles across a very broad spectrum of project delivery functions such as project management, engineering, construction and commissioning.
Sue Brittain
Office Manager
Over 30 years of PA & administrative experience, supporting senior management in the construction and oil & gas industries, and most recently within an NHS Trust.
Derryth Young
Engineering Manager
Project engineering and technical plant design leader for mining, metals and mineral processing projects with 29 years’ experience including on large-scale metallurgy/chemicals projects with Worley, Tara Resources, and Jacobs Engineering.
