MarketOpen Podcast Episode 110 - Future Battery Minerals

Joining the podcast today is Nick Rathjen, the Managing Director & CEO of Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM)Future Battery Minerals are a future-facing minerals exploration and development company focused on rapidly advancing our two world-class lithium discoveries.Our Kangaroo Hills Lithium Project (KHLP) is a recent and exciting hard rock lithium discovery located in the Goldfields of Western Australia, approximately 17km south of the major township of Coolgardie. Immediately north and contiguous to KHLP is the recently acquired Miriam Project, where a large historic lithium soil anomaly extends from an outcropping spodumene-rich pegmatite, providing a significant opportunity for future exploration success.Nick Rathjen has a proven track record accumulated across more than a decade in equity capital markets, corporate development and mineral marketing, with extensive experience in the lithium sector. Nick brings a strong commercial capability to the Company, having led early-stage lithium projects through technical programs, economic studies, execution of offtake agreements, funding and due diligence processes, project development as well as the completion of commercial transactions.Nick has previously held positions as the Head of Corporate Development at Canadian lithium developer Green Technology Metals Ltd (ASX: GT1) and as the Head of Corporate Development at Prospect Resources Limited (ASX: PSC). At Prospect Resources, Nick played a key role in the advancement and development of the Arcadia Lithium Project in Zimbabwe through both the financing process and marketing of the key products to be mined and processed at Arcadia (spodumene and petalite).Nick’s understanding of lithium mining, processing, marketing and downstream conversion brings a broad list of capabilities to the Company as it rapidly advances its Kangaroo Hills and Nevada Lithium Projects. He holds a Master of Applied Finance, Bachelor of Commerce, Diploma of Investor Relations and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).