Min Tang is a seasoned executive with over a decade of experience in the renewable energy and commodity trading sectors. As Director of RKP International — a global leader in vanadium flow battery (VFB) energy storage solutions — he leads the company’s global strategy, business model innovation, partner engagement, and market expansion initiatives. Over his career, Min Tang has held senior leadership roles managing commodity trade operations with annual transaction volumes exceeding USD 1.5 billion. He has also played a pivotal role in establishing green finance initiatives and projects, demonstrating his commitment to sustainable development. With extensive international experience, Min Tang has collaborated with major corporations such as Saudi Aramco, Siemens Energy, and Glencore on strategic projects. His vision and execution have enabled RKP to establish a robust global distribution network, encompassing both subsidiaries and strategic partnerships. Dedicated to accelerating sustainable development, Min Tang combines advanced technology integration with innovative business strategies. His adaptability across diverse business environments and expertise in building scalable, forward-looking business models position him as a valuable contributor to the global energy storage industry.

Michael brings 15 years of research and development experience in the process technology space. His extensive expertise spans multiple commodities, including nickel, vanadium, titanium, uranium, and gold, specialising in collaborating with mining and mineral technology companies to develop innovative processes, and up-scale technologies from the laboratory to industrial implementation. In recent years, he has focused on flow sheet development and piloting for high-purity critical minerals, to support the establishment of domestic downstream battery materials industries. Most recently this has included leading the CSIRO team contributing to the Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant (C4P).

Damian is a Consulting Engineer managing a multidisciplinary engineering team with extensive experience in the gold, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel, lithium, vanadium and iron ore industries with particular emphasis on gold. Experience has been gained in plant operations feasibility studies, detailed design, construction and commissioning, and all unit operations. He is an internationally recognised specialist in Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy having worked in North and South America, South East Asia, Africa and Europe and is highly sought after as an International Expert. The last +30 years working as a Principal Consulting Engineer on many resource projects and for mining, banking and engineering companies has provided a broad range of experience. Damian is a Registered Expert Witness and has been engaged on many cases. He is the author of over 220 technical papers on mineral processing, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy.

Rhys is a Process Engineer with over 10 years’ experience within the mining and resources sector. He has been involved in design and implementation projects involving lithium, tantalum, mineral sands, and gold. He has gained international experience following commissioning and operational experience in South Africa and Brazil. Rhys was responsible for much of the process and mechanical design for the spodumene processing plants for Talison Lithium Greenbushes since 2016, including a key role in the design and commissioning of Chemical Grande Plant 2 and 3, which each produce 550,000tpa of spodumene concentrate grading 6.0% Li2O. Rhys has also worked on other lithium projects and operations, including for Galaxy Lithium, Latin Resources, Covalent Lithium and Core Lithium.

Brendan graduated from the University of Western Australia with first class honours and a PhD on rare earth extraction. Today Brendan advises on all aspects of patent attorney work – from drafting specifications for new technologies to enforcement work, as well as providing patent validity and infringement opinions. His patent practice covers a range of technologies in the broad chemical arena including chemical engineering and chemical processing, with particular experience in the fields of material processing, metal treatment, metallurgy, mineral processing, purification methods, nanotechnology, reactions in supercritical fluids, water treatment and graphene formation. Brendan’s clients range from large multinational clients, and universities to start-ups. Brendan spent a number of years in in research with leading universities in Australia and the United Kingdom in the fields of macrocyclic chemistry and supercritical fields and is the author of several publications in international journals. Brendan enjoys the hands-on element of working with clients and their new technologies, helping them to navigate the complex global landscape of IP regimes.

Brendon has over 20 years’ experience in agribusiness and 16 years in public office as leader of the National Party and senior cabinet minister in Western Australia. Brendon is well respected and highly regarded across Western Australia delivering six State Government budgets as a senior member of the Economic Expenditure Review Committee. As the Minister for Regional Development, Brendon created and implemented the $7 billion regional investment policy ‘Royalties for Regions’. Brendon now leads 'The Grylls Group' which has grown to include strategic consulting work within the resource industry, civil contracting, agriculture, First Nations partnership, aviation and innovative research into carbon abatement and developing new carbon offset projects as Executive Director of Salubris. Brendon was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Chair on the Board of Richmond Vanadium Technology (RVT), in April 2022. In July this year, he assumed the Executive Chair role at RVT with a focus on minimising costs whilst continuing the BFS journey for RVT’s, Richmond – Julia Creek Vanadium (Coordinated) Project. Current priorities are to conclude reserve drilling and innovative metallurgical test work program, investigating the refining of Vanadium Concentrate to Electrolyte with Dalian Rongke Power - the world largest electrolyte manufacturer, environmental approvals and the granting of a mining lease for the project, which are substantially progressed. Brendon is collaborating with our partners RKP Storage and Trina Solar to showcase the superiority and cost advantages of the Vanadium Flow Battery (VFB) for +8 -hour energy storage in Australia by accelerating local adoption of the battery at grid scale and, in turn, increase demand for local vanadium. He looks forward to welcoming RKP Internationals participation at this year’s AusIMM conference.