Raymond is a process engineer in Hatch’s Hydrometallurgy department focused on battery material projects. His experience includes black mass recycling, direct lithium extraction, and the production of battery grade lithium hydroxide and nickel sulphate. He is also involved in developing strategies to mitigate and valorize sodium sulphate produced by battery material production processes.

Bernadette Currie, is the Sedgman Business & Project Development Manager - Metals, responsible for all precious and base metal project development activities. Bernadette has over 25 years of experience in engineering and mineral processing as well as specific expertise in hydrometallurgy flowsheet development and plant design. Having lived and worked on resources projects and studies (copper, gold, and cobalt) in North and South America, Africa, and Australia, Bernadette has extensive global and commodity experience, such as the recently commissioned Mina Justa Project in Peru, for which she was the oxide plant lead engineer. With experience working for major mining companies including Xstrata / Glencore, BHP and Rio Tinto as well as mid-small tier companies, Bernadette has a good understanding of the owner’s side financial evaluation, capital project execution and growth strategy requirements.   As a process industry leader and passionate champion of a circular economy, her technical depth in metal recovery is in base, critical and battery metals using leaching and solvent extraction, including from secondary (mine or e-waste) sources.  Bernadette was a committee volunteer with the Southern Qld branch of AusIMM, serving two years as exec secretary.

Energetics’ CEO since 2019, Dr Mary Stewart has innovated and evolved the business’ service offerings in response to the growing risks presented by the changing climate and Australia's energy transition. She is globally known as an expert in decision making for sustainable development, Life Cycle Assessments as applies to resources, developing carbon footprints and carbon neutral positions. Mary was selected by the International Chamber of Commerce to serve as an observer on the Implementation task force of the UNFCCC’s Technology Executive Committee. The taskforce supports needs assessment, collaborative technology development and transfer, and uptake of existing clean mitigation and adaptation technologies. Mary chairs the board of the Energy Community of Practice of the global Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and is the President of the board of the Energy Efficiency Council (EEC). Mary is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the IChemE.

Sue has over 35 years’ experience as an academic at the University of Cape Town, with a profile balanced between teaching, postgraduate supervision, research and management and leadership at the research centre / institute, departmental, faculty and university level. She has built her research profile in bioprocess engineering research, being recognised both nationally and internationally. She is regularly invited to speak internationally and takes part in collaborative international research projects, with a track record in leading complex collaborative research projects. In recent years, Sue has expanded her research profile into inter- and transdisciplinary research, focused on wicked problems in the context of sustainable development of mineral resources and post-mining regions as well as water sensitive systems. Her focus on resource efficiency drives her research in the circular economy and waste biorefinery fields. Her focus on the bioeconomy and bioprocess systems drives research in health biotechnology, including process development for vaccines and probiotics. She leads the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research and was founding director of UCT’s interdisciplinary research institute Future Water, building strong teams of complementary researchers.