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Ernie Ortiz

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October 16, 2021


Ernie Ortiz joined Li-Metal as a non-executive director in 2021. He currently holds the role of President and Managing Director of LRC, a position he has held since 2018. Prior to joining LRC in 2018, Mr. Ortiz was an investment analyst at a US based equity fund where he specialized in lithium, battery materials and specialty chemicals. Prior to this, he worked at Credit Suisse where he was the lead associate in the basic materials group, where he led the research and due diligence on lithium, which called for the imbalance between supply and demand the market faced in 2016/2017. Mr. Ortiz sits on the London Metal Exchange (LME) Lithium Advisory Committee and has been quoted in Reuters and the Wall Street Journal for comments on the lithium market. Ernie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds the CFA designation.

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