Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Ceylon Graphite Corporation
Bharat Parashar has over 42 years of experience in Asia and the United States in a variety of fields including Mining, Private Equity and Investment Banking. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Ceylon Graphite Corporation, a company involved in the mining of Graphite in Sri Lanka. He is also concurrently the Managing Partner for Clove Capital Partners LLC a private investment firm.
Bharat has over 18 years of experience in the Private Equity business investing in a variety of companies in Asia and formerly was Chief Executive Officer for EMP Daiwa Capital Asia Ltd and Managing Director for EMP Global’s Asian Private Equity business. Prior to the private equity business, he served at Citi Group’s (Salomon Smith Barney) as Managing Director and Co- Head of Investment Banking for South and South East Asia, where he raised over US $ 8 billion in debt and equity for regional corporations and governments. He was also Chief Executive of American Express’s business in India and Head of Chemical Bank’s Investment Banking business in Asia (ex- Japan).
Mr. Parashar is currently a Trustee and Board Member for the Asian Institute of Management’s Scientific Research Fund. He has a MBM from the Asian Institute of Management and a BA(Hons) in Economics from Delhi University in India.
Sasha Jacob is the Chairman & CEO of Jacob Capital Management Inc. a merchant bank focused on the renewable power and infrastructure sectors. Sasha brings over 20 years of experience in the power sector, including founding and leading the power and infrastructure practice at a leading Canadian investment bank, as well as several years in senior political positions with the Ontario Minister of Energy. He was the first investment banker to focus on renewable energy in Canada and has managed over 100 transactions in the renewable sector valued at more than $8 billion. Sasha was recognized by Institutional Investor as one of the “5 Most Influential Emerging Players in Renewable Energy†globally.
Sasha holds a BA from Bishop’s University, MBA from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University and GP LLM from the University of Toronto. He was the recipient of the Laurier MBA Alumni 2009 Outstanding Executive Leadership Award and the Bishop’s University Top 10 After 10. Mr. Jacob has served on the Boards of several charitable organizations including as Vice Chair of World Wildlife Fund (WWF Canada), Director of Plan International Canada, Past Chair of the Board of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO Maple Leaf) and current Chair of the Board of Nature United (The Nature Conservancy in Canada).
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining Salon Graphite's Live Investment Summit today hosted by 6, highest grade graphite in the world. I'm pleased to introduce our speakers today, Parat Parasha, Speaker 1: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Sasha Jacob, Founder and Strategic Advisor. Speaker 1: The team is going to walk you through a company presentation, and after that, we will be taking questions. Speaker 1: As a reminder, you can always submit your questions in the right-hand side on the Q&A panel. Speaker 1: Now, without further ado, I'm going to pass it over to Bharath to kick things off. Speaker 2: Thank you, Jane, and good morning to all. Speaker 2: I'm Bharat Parashar. Speaker 2: And this morning, we're going to talk to you a little bit about Speaker 2: Ceylon Graphite, Speaker 2: who the company is, Speaker 2: what we do, Speaker 2: and how we position ourselves in the world's graphite market. Speaker 2: And of course, we'll also talk a little bit about the graphite market Speaker 2: and the battery market. Speaker 2: Having said that, I'll start off with saying we were established in 2017 Speaker 2: when we did a reverse takeover of an existing shell company on the TSXV. Speaker 2: And we have since been in business. Speaker 2: Call sign, our symbol on the TSXV CYL. Speaker 2: We are now also listed on the OTC, Speaker 2: and we were recently upgraded to QB status Speaker 2: a few days ago. Speaker 2: Let me Speaker 2: start off by Speaker 2: going through our Speaker 2: disclosure and disclaimer statement here, which is pretty standard to what most companies talk about. Speaker 2: Please have a look at it at a good time. Speaker 2: We have some forward looking statements Speaker 2: and geological projections here, which I'd appreciate if you...
