ERV Team
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Engineer and Entrepreneur with >25 years mining and energy sector experience

Founder & Chairman of
Pella Resources, affiliated with Chariot Energy, Tharisa, Petra Diamonds and Rainbow Rare Earths

First Angel investor in
Li-Cycle & Li-Metal

Raised >USD 2B in capital for investment companies
20 years’ experience in transaction, commercial & legal advisory for energy, mining & engineering sectors

Specialist in multi-jurisdictional transactions and capital raising

Experienced in mentoring and supporting start-up businesses
Physicist & entrepreneur

Founder & CEO of the AIMS
financial services group.

>10 years financial services,
cryptocurrency and fintech
sectors

Private investor in early-stage
ventures across clean tech (First
Angel investor in Li-Cycle),
high-tech engineering, fintech
and blockchain companies.
Adonis Pouroulis
Founder & Principal
Andrew Clover
Founder & Principal
Hayden Sommer
Founder & Principal
7+ years strategic consulting,
private equity, M&A, corporate finance & business development experience

Mining, technology & financial services sectors

Experienced across start-ups & mature businesses
Chartered Engineer UK

5 years R&D experience at hydrogen start-ups

Expertise in developing hydrogen systems for commercial applications, particularly PEM fuel cells

Fuel Cell Systems lead at Arrival, previously Stratospheric Platforms - developed a 70kW PEM fuel cell prototype
Managing Director, Fund Management Division
Peter Robson
35+ years global investor experience.

Chief Executive of Tree Top Asset Management, Director of Bury Street Capital and Partner of TT International.

Deep expertise within developed and developing economies, technology and emerging new business models.
Marcus Clover
Founder & Principal
Grant Gischen
Founder & Principal
5+ years experience in enhancing organisational and individual performance through behavioural science

Skilled in implementing organizational working models

Leverages psychological frameworks to help founders and start-ups thrive
CFO
James Beams
30+ years leadership, finance and board level experience in mining, energy and financial services sectors. Experienced in new business development, capital raising and M&A. Focus on investment decision-making and building teams and businesses
Associate
Harry Michael
Chemical Engineering Ph.D.

5+ years research experience in energy storage systems.

Expertise in assessing the performance of battery technologies.

Track record of initiating and leading multiple research projects that provide new insights into battery degradation.
Philippos Pouroullis
Associate
Prosemino Team
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Professor in Chemical Engineering
at UCL where he holds Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies

Co-directs UCL’s EIL & leads the UK STFC Global Challenge Network in Batteries & Electrochemical Devices

Founding investigator of UK’s Faraday Institution

Has raised over £40M in research strategy
Professor of Materials Physics at UCL in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Specializes in creation & optimization of next generation materials for energy applications & has invented & patented numerous processes that can scale to industrial level

Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials
20 years’ experience in electrochemical power systems

Raised over £45million of research income to the EIL

Top 3 academic in Europe based on number of publications over last 10 years in the combined areas of fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors

Founder & Director of Innovation for Bramble Energy and an academic founder and Expert Panel member
of the Faraday Institution
Prof. Dan Brett
Founder & Director
Prof. Paul Shearing
Founder & Director
Prof. Chris Howard
Founder & Director
Over 25 years’ electronics engineering & creative
problem-solving experience with
a passion for accelerating development and engineering technology

Clean Energy Tech Entrepreneur
& Vehicle Electrification Specialist

Former Chief Engineer at Arrival
and Non-Executive Director at Classic Car electrification start-up
Francis Prime
Engineer in Residence