GELION PLC (GELN) — Investor Presentation

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Good morning, and welcome to the GELN PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to nonexecutive chairman, doctor Steve Mahone. Good morning to you. Good morning. GELLON made two important announcements on Tuesday this week, and purpose of this update to investors is to explain the it. The first of those announcements was we announced the partnership, one of the US government's natural labs. This is part of our entry strategy into The US. In advanced batteries, lithium sulfur, we believe, can be a competitive and strategically important chemistry for that. Western countries are all looking for over their supply chains. In all the Western governments, The US is by far the most aggressive and leading in terms of their spend on on procurement of advanced technologies in this space and in the defense space. The US defense budget is 10 times that of of The UK. So our goal is to be the category leader, the number one in the world on lithium sulfur batteries and on the sulfur chemistry for batteries. You can't be the global leader if you don't have a strategy, and this marks the start of our US market entry. The second announcement that we're transitioning to a new CEO today, we have both John and Matt on the call today. John is retiring, and I and we've invited John to to the call and share his thoughts and reasons with you all. And then it will be my pleasure to introduce Matt to you today. John came to me about nine months ago to ...