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.
Dominic Kieran
MBA, FAPM, MEng
Chair of the Board
Global Managing Director with Cameco, a world-leading Uranium company, with 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.
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.
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. Richard is now chairman of the Institute of Directors Natural Resources Group.
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
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
IoD Dip, MSc, BSC
Chief Operating Officer
25 year career across renewable energy, defence, agriculture and environment sectors between the UK and Australia, a wealth of experience within government, as a client, contractor and consultant holding senior leadership positions.
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 Project 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
Controls & Services Manager
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.
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, working in the corporate finance and private business client service teams – Max is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Michael Howe
BScEng
PLANT 1 Project Manager
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 and administrative experience, supporting senior management in the construction and oil and gas industries, and most recently within an NHS Trust.
Derryth Young
AMIMechE, BSc Mech, MBA
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.
Rubli Carran
BSc
Process Engineer
A geochemical specialist with a passion for materials processing and renewable technology solutions. Experience in geological exploration in the UK, Egypt, Tanzania and Georgia. Focusing on chemical process engineering at Green Lithium.
Sandra Rosignoli
LLM
Commodities & Trading Contracts SME
29-year career in multiple lead general counsel roles with vast experience across energy, commodities, derivatives, IP, technology, private equity, data privacy, sanctions, M&A and compliance, including roles at Vitol, TrailStone and Clarksons Platou.
Ken Owen
MScEng
Industrial Contracts & Alliances SME
30 years’ experience as commercial director in energy, automotive and infrastructure sectors on some of the world’s most high-profile ‘mega projects’ as commercial director, including at Hinkley Point C, London Olympics and Heathrow Airport.
Greg Elton
MSc
Organisational Development SME
Experienced consultancy professional with 15 years of experience in building, shaping and advising leadership teams in some of the most complex environments across the civil nuclear, defence nuclear, oil and gas, renewable, rail and aerospace sectors.
Nick Philpot
BA (Oxon)
Governance SME
Founder of a London-based multi-site startup Yolk, and has supported Green Lithium since inception, providing insight in early-stage business governance – his 11-year career started in Deloitte strategy and commercial due diligence.
Rick Hermon
BSc
Commercial Structuring SME
20 years of commercial experience in commodity markets, with experience ranging from physical products through to power and electricity, including at URENCO, Barclays Investment Bank and EDF Energy.
John Foster
LLB
Counsel & Company Secretary
Accomplished legal leader with 10 years’ experience at leading global law firms and on large infrastructure projects – previous roles at NEOM, Linklaters and Kirkland & Ellis.
Harry Sargent
MEng (oxon)
Project Engineer
5 years of operations management experience including quality systems, compliance and logistics within the electrical and hazardous waste management industry.
