The State of Recycling in 2024 for Energy Storage & Charging

Over 25 years of years of global experience in capital markets, corporate development, strategy and investment banking. Vice-President of a Canadian investment banking mining team with over $10B of M&A transactions and well over $5B in equity and debt issuances. Founding member and CFO of Neo Lithium.

Mr. De Gasperis has over 35 years of experience in industrial manufacturing, finance, governance, operations, and project management in metals, mining, and recycling. He has been Comstock's CEO since 2010 and executive chairman since 2015. Previously, he served as CEO of Barzel Industries and held various roles at GrafTech International. Mr. De Gasperis is also a director and chairman of the Board of Directors of LiNiCo Corporation, a director of ROK-On Building Systems, and the founding member and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture. He holds a Bachelor of Business Arts degree from Western Connecticut State University.

Dr. Dev Chidambaram, a Nevada Regents Researcher and Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), is also director of the Nevada Institute for Sustainability. His research expertise is in electrochemical engineering and materials characterization. Chidambaram designed and implemented the nation’s first minor in Batteries and Energy Storage Technologies at UNR. He has been the principal investigator on nearly ~$20 million in research grants. He is also the technical lead for the NSF Engines award to Northern Nevada on Lithium Circular Economy. He is the author on ~ 250 publications and presentations. His work has been recognized with research awards from various professional societies such as the Electrochemical Society, the International Society for Electrochemistry, the American Vacuum Society, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, amongst others.