Piedmont Lithium Inc (ASX: PLL) Share Price and News

Mr. Armstrong has financial experience and most recently served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of North Inlet Advisors, a FINRA-regulated entity, from 2009 until 2022. North Inlet provides investment banking services to middle-market companies in the industrial, consumer, business services, and agriculture spaces. Mr. Armstrong has served on the boards of private companies in the chemical, solar, health care device, and direct-to-consumer sectors. Prior to 2009, Mr. Armstrong served as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity Coverage and Leveraged Capital at what is now Wells Fargo's Investment Bank. Mr. Armstrong also worked as an investment banker in the late 1980s and 1990s for Citigroup and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Phillips has experience with mining companies, including many global leaders, and his expertise in advising exploration and development-stage companies in achieving their strategic objectives, with a particular focus on obtaining relevance in the U.S. capital markets. He also served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of our predecessor company prior to the Redomiciliation. Mr. Phillips joined the Company after a 30-year career on Wall Street during which time he worked on strategic and financing transactions representing over $100 billion in aggregate value. He served, most recently, as Senior Advisor with merchant banker, Maxit Capital LP, from September 2015 to June 2017. Prior to Maxit Capital, he led the mining investment banking teams for Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, JPMorgan, and Dahlman Rose.

Mr. Beristain has international finance and public equity background and experience in the valuation of mining, metals, and chemical operations and downstream manufactured metal uses. Mr. Beristain has served on the Board of Directors of Ryerson China Limited, since July 2024, and as Vice President of Finance for Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI) since October 2022. With revenue of over $5 billion, Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals with over 110 global locations, supplying the industrial, transport, consumer, construction and energy sectors. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Central Steel & Wire Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ryerson, since July 2019 where he was integral to its financial transformation. From 2000 to 2017, Mr. Beristain served as Managing Director and Head of Deutsche Bank AG's Americas Metals & Mining equity research, where he was consistently ranked by institutional investors as one of the top analysts in the U.S. During his more than 20-year career on Wall Street, Mr. Beristain lived and worked in the U.S., Latin America, and Canada and visited hundreds of industrial companies worldwide.

Mr. Demby most recently served as President of Cree LED, a Smart Global Holdings, Inc. company that develops application-optimized LED chips and components, from 2020 to 2022. Prior to Smart Global Holdings acquiring Cree LED, from 2014 to 2020, Mr. Demby held various positions at Cree LED, including as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cree LED business, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and Senior Vice President of the Semi-Conductor Materials business. Mr. Demby served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Noel Group, LLC, a global manufacturer of synthetic foam materials, from 2008 to 2014, and served on the board of directors of the Noel Group from 2001 to 2008. From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Demby was President and Chief Operating Officer of L&L Products Inc., a global manufacturer of noise, vibration, and harshness solutions and structural devices for the automotive and aerospace sectors. Mr. Demby began his career in engineering roles with Procter & Gamble Company and GE Plastics and was focused on the chemical processing and manufacturing of consumer and industrial products.

Ms. Alvord most recently served as President of the Central Division of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC), the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates, from 2019 to 2021. She previously served as Vulcan's President of the Southern & Gulf Coast Division, from 2017 to 2019, and Vice President of Corporate Planning and Performance Improvement, from 2016 to 2017. Before joining Vulcan, Ms. Alvord held various executive management positions at GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, including serving as President of GE Aviation-Unison Industries and GE Aviation-Middle River Aircraft Systems. Ms. Alvord also serves on the boards of Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: APOG), a provider of architectural products and services, and Albany International Corp. (NYSE: AIN), a developer and manufacturer of engineered components.

Mr. Bless has executive and operational experience in the integrated mining business. He most recently served as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and board of directors of Century Aluminum Company (Nasdaq: CENX), a U.S.-based, publicly-held, global producer of primary aluminum, from July 2021 through March 2022. Previously, he served as Century's President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2011 to July 2021, and he was a member of Century's board of directors from December 2012 to July 2021. Mr. Bless also served as Century's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to November 2011. Prior to Century, he held a range of executive positions with several companies including Maxtor Corp., a technology company, and Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), an automation company. Mr. Bless also serves on the boards of CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE: CNA), a property/casualty insurance company, and Enact Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACT), a mortgage insurance company.

Ms. Hickton is an executive leader with a career that spans multiple industries in aerospace, space, defense, and energy. She has been both a public and private company CEO with operational, commercial, financial, and strategic experience in manufacturing, government services, and cyber, defense, and intelligence. Since June 2019, Ms. Hickton has served as the Chair, CEO, and President of Cumberland Additive, Inc., a woman-led innovative new technology specialty metals additive manufacturing company. Previously, from June 2019 to June 2022, she served as Executive Vice President of Jacobs Solutions Inc. (NYSE: J), an international technical professional services firm that provides engineering, technical, professional, and construction services, and President of its Critical Mission Solutions business line, which provides engineering design and support services for NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and other national security priorities. From 2007 to 2015, she served as Vice Chair, President, and CEO of RTI International Metals, Inc. (formerly, NYSE: RTI), previously, a billion-dollar, vertically integrated global supplier of titanium mill products and fabricated metal components.

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