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Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. (TSXV:ZEN) appointed Dr. Bharat Chahar as the Company’s Vice President of Market Development. Dr. Chahar will be responsible for advancing marketing opportunities for the unique High Purity graphite products from the Company’s Albany Deposit in Ontario.
As quoted in the press release:
Bharat Chahar, Ph.D. is a chemical engineer with more than 30 years of carbon research and development experience with ConocoPhillips based in Houston, Texas. Dr. Chahar obtained a B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, INDIA; a M.Sc. (Chemical Engineering) from University of Alberta, Edmonton, CANADA and a Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) from Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
From 2002 to 2013 Dr. Chahar was Global Marketing and Product Manager for CPREME® Graphite Materials at ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66. He led the creation and development of this new business to produce and supply graphite anode material for Lithium-ion batteries. At the time, CPREME® graphite was the largest North American based supplier of anode materials for Lithium-ion batteries with customers across the three major continents – North America, Europe and Asia. As the leader of this business since its inception, he was responsible for all aspects of starting this endeavor including strategic direction for marketing, sales, research & development, intellectual property and manufacturing scale-up. The CPREME® graphite anode material was considered the benchmark by leading manufacturers in the Lithium-ion batteries for high power batteries such as those needed for the automotive market. The CPREME® graphite business was able to achieve the premier status in the industry despite the fact that the Lithium-ion battery manufacturers and their suppliers were largely based in Asia and ConocoPhillips had no market presence until 2006.
Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. President and CEO, Aubrey Eveleigh, said:
We are very pleased to attract a professional of Bharat’s caliber and global graphite network to our existing management team. Dr. Chahar is a business-savvy individual with a strong technology background and a passion for materials and specialty products. He is very familiar with end use applications for high purity graphite in the cleantech sector and will be instrumental during ongoing discussions with end users. His qualifications and experience are very impressive and will be invaluable to Zenyatta as we advance our ultra-high purity carbon product for potential use in high-tech applications.
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