Charlie McGill
CEO
Charlie has over a decade of experience leading early-stage, private equity and ASX-200 businesses in the renewable energy and resources sectors. He was CFO of lithium developer Kidman Resources prior to its acquisition by Wesfarmers and CFO of energy storage and natural gas company GB Energy. Charlie is a Senior Advisor of VC-backed lithium battery recycler Lohum.
Charlie’s prior experiences include M&A, strategy and investor relations at Wesfarmers and Incitec Pivot, and investment banking at Morgan Stanley in Sydney and New York.
Education
Harvard Business School (MBA)
US Naval Academy (BS Systems Engineering)
Dr SJ (Shaun) Oosthuizen
CTO
Shaun is a Fellow of Engineers Australia with over 20 years of experience in natural resources and renewables. Working across four continents, Shaun has patented and scaled-up material-science technologies for organisations including Boeing, BHP, CSIRO, NASA, Rio Tinto, and the University of Cambridge.
Shaun has developed novel processes and membrane systems tailored to desalination, product recovery and drinking water production from mining and industrial effluents. He has also piloted hydro, pyrometallurgical and electrochemical systems for the low-cost manufacture of lithium metal, alloys, and salts.
Education
North-West University (PhD Chemical Engineering)
University of Pretoria (MPhil Innovation, BEng (Hons) Man. of Tech., BEng Chemical Engineering)
Professor Laureate Huanting Wang
Inventor and Senior Advisor
Professor Wang is an ARC Laureate Fellow within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University. He is also the Director of the ARC Research Hub for Energy-Efficient Separation.
Professor Wang has co-authored over 420 papers (33,000+ citations) on nanomaterials and composite membranes for water desalination and purification, gas and ion transport and separation and electrochemical energy.
Professor Wang is a Council Member of the Aseanian Membrane Society, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers and The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Education
University of Science and Technology of China, (PhD Materials Science)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), post-doctoral research fellowship in Chemical Engineering
