Dr Wedin is a battery materials and renewable energy industry executive, focused on developing global scale decarbonisation opportunities. Dr Wedin founded Vulcan Energy and its integrated sustainable lithium and renewable energy business, a dual renewables and lithium chemicals company and the world’s first zero fossil fuels, carbon neutral lithium project.

Dr Wedin was previously Executive Director of ASX-listed Exore Resources, where he developed two new lithium resources, on two continents. He is bilingual, has a PhD and BSc (Hons) in geology, an MBA in renewable energy, is a Fellow of the Geological Society, London, and a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Mr Moreno has over 20 years’ global experience in successfully delivering major projects, including in the lithium chemicals, cathode, upstream E&P and LNG sectors. In the LNG sector, he held senior leadership roles with Santos, Woodside, and Shell, including working on the Gorgon, Wheatstone and Prelude LNG projects.

Prior to joining Vulcan Group, Mr Moreno worked in the lithium chemicals and battery cathode sector in Europe, as Senior Director of Cathode Active Material (CAM) business units, and as Founding Executive & Vice President of Engineering and Development for Aurora Lithium. Mr Moreno has successfully been part of, and led, green start-up companies, taking them from pilot scale into commercial production.

With over 30 years of professional experience, Mr Barker is a Director of listed companies who brings a wealth of expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and strategic advisory. He held senior executive roles at top-tier global investment banks across Australia, the United Kingdom, and Asia, including 12 years based in Hong Kong, and has advised public company boards and CEOs on strategic mergers and acquisitions, as well as complex capital markets transactions. Mr Barker’s deep industry knowledge spans the natural resources, financial services, infrastructure, and technology sectors, where he has guided boards and executives through complex financial decisions.

In addition to his corporate advisory roles, Mr Barker served as a Senior Adviser to Australian Government Ministers in key economic portfolios, shaping policies related to superannuation, financial services, the digital economy, trade, and foreign investment. He is the Chairman of Australian Rare Earths and a Non-Executive Director of WAM Capital.

Ms Gooding is a Senior Finance executive and leader with over 20 years’ experience in strategic and financial analysis, debt funding, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, management and financial accounting and governance within Australia, Singapore, London, and Washington D.C.

Her experience has been gained across multiple industries relevant to Vulcan including energy, mining, and infrastructure. Most recently Ms Gooding was CFO and Global Head of Commercial at Fortescue Future Industries, where she led the finance team, including the specialist project financing team responsible for securing finance to enable financial investment decisions for green energy projects.

Ms Bush is a qualified solicitor and chartered tax advisor, as well as earning the CFA ESG investing qualification and a sustainable finance certification. She has an MA in Law from Cambridge University. She built and led the UK and Ireland Renewables Tax Practice and developed latterly the EY global renewables business plan. Ms Bush was a member of the Ernst & Young Power and Utilities Board and UK&I Governance Board and was a senior partner at EY for 14 years.

Dr Hilken has over 35 years’ experience and a deep understanding of the German chemicals, renewables, and infrastructure investment sectors, and, through leading industry advocacy associations, the German Government at the State and Federal levels. Dr Hilken is a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Asset Management, Director of Currenta, and President and Chairman of the Board of the German Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (VIK).

Dr Grön is a chemical engineer by background and an accomplished business leader with over 22 years’ experience in the chemicals  industry. Since 2007, Dr Grön has been a senior executive with Evonik, one of the largest specialty chemicals companies in the world, with a market capitalisation of €14B and 32,000 employees.

Dr Kreuter is a highly experienced businessman and engineering geologist, with an extensive and distinguished record of project development and consulting in the geothermal sector. He worked successfully in geothermal project development and permitting in Germany and worldwide and is a Co-Founder of Vulcan Energy, as well as Ex-CEO of Geothermal Group Germany GmbH and GeoThermal Engineering GmbH (GeoT). Dr Kreuter has a widespread political, investor and industry network in Germany and Europe. He is based in Karlsruhe, local to the project area in the Upper Rhine Valley.

Mr Moreno has over 20 years’ global experience in successfully delivering major projects, including in the lithium chemicals, cathode, upstream E&P and LNG sectors. In the LNG sector, he held senior leadership roles with Santos, Woodside, and Shell, including working on the Gorgon, Wheatstone and Prelude LNG projects.

Prior to joining Vulcan Group, Mr Moreno worked in the lithium chemicals and battery cathode sector in Europe, as Senior Director of Cathode Active Material (CAM) business units, and as Founding Executive & Vice President of Engineering and Development for Aurora Lithium. Mr Moreno has successfully been part of, and led, green start-up companies, taking them from pilot scale into commercial production.

Ms Gooding is a Senior Finance executive and leader with over 20 years’ experience in strategic and financial analysis, debt funding, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, management and financial accounting and governance within Australia, Singapore, London, and Washington D.C.

Her experience has been gained across multiple industries relevant to Vulcan including energy, mining, and infrastructure. Most recently Ms Gooding was CFO and Global Head of Commercial at Fortescue Future Industries, where she led the finance team, including the specialist project financing team responsible for securing finance to enable financial investment decisions for green energy projects.

Mr Bachg brings more than 25 years of global project management experience in capital projects in the petrochemical and chemical industry for Engineering contractors like Jacobs and Worley. Mr Bachg managed the Supply Chain of one of the largest European IT companies and helped to develop Jacob’s organisation from scratch to approximately 350 people.

Dr Brand brings over 25 years of extensive industry experience in specialty chemicals, with expertise in process innovation, optimisation, sustainability, and commercial leadership. He joins Vulcan from Clariant, a world-leading specialty and sustainable chemical solutions company. With his background, Dr Brand is ideally positioned to lead Vulcan’s lithium technical team, providing crucial technical support to the execution and operation teams at Vulcan’s integrated lithium and renewable energy project.

Mr Freitag brings 20 years of global experience from the chemicals, oil & gas and battery materials industry. All his jobs revolved around preparing and delivering large industrial investment projects in various functions.

He joined Vulcan from BASF where he was the Vice President for Battery Materials Investment Projects, being responsible for the engineering and execution of a portfolio of several projects around the world for Cathode Active Material (CAM) and Battery Materials Recycling plants.

For over 20 years, Ms Langley has worked in the mining industry, with a career spanning site-based environmental and sustainability management, operational compliance and reporting, climate change action planning and decarbonisation project delivery across complex mining and mineral processing value chains.
With Ms Langley’s leadership, passion and experience delivering world-leading projects that advance sustainability, Vulcan will reach new heights as we progress towards delivering our integrated sustainable lithium and geothermal renewable energy project.

Dr Pralle, with a background in geology, geophysics, and geotechnical engineering, holds degrees from Rice University, Houston, and the University of Karlsruhe. With over 20 years of experience with construction companies including ZÜBLIN and STRABAG, his expertise initially focused on tunneling engineering and design before expanding to encompass roles in R&D, innovation, corporate responsibility, and patent management at the group level. Dr Pralle is also actively involved in advisory boards and associations within the industry.

Doris Prokosch brings over three decades of Human Resources experience in companies of various sizes, from medium-sized enterprises to internationally operating corporations. Her career spans industries such as banking, electronic devices, IT, services, manufacturing, and construction. Most recently, Doris Prokosch held senior leadership positions as Head of Human Resources and Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Her broad expertise covers both strategic and operational HR topics, from organizational and employee development to recruiting, labor law, and the implementation of complex transformation processes.

Mr Salim brings 25 years’ professional experience in information technology (IT) roles across sectors including Consumer & Chemical Industry, Automotive and IT-Consulting. He brings invaluable experience in establishing relationships with suppliers, project management and resource planning. At Vulcan, he oversees all aspects of IT operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure and digital platforms.

Prior to joining, he was Director of IT at HARIBO Group, where he was led the design, control, security and development of IT Global operations and as well for the Office to the CIO.

Marcus Süllmann brings extensive corporate finance and controlling experience across various sectors, including energy, manufacturing, telecom, logistics, and FMCG. Most recently, he served as interim CFO at a Green Hydrogen production company in Germany. He has also worked at two renewable energy start-ups over the past five years, gaining valuable experience in scaling up greenfield projects.

Dr Tragut brings more than 30 years’ global chlor-alkali project execution and production experience. Prior to joining Vulcan, Dr Tragut worked as Vice President for BASF.

Mr Tydde is an experienced corporate lawyer with ~20 years’ experience across a wide range of corporate, commercial, and finance areas including corporate regulatory compliance; corporate governance; equity and debt capital raisings; asset and share sales and purchases; initial public offerings; corporate restructuring and re-organisations; and litigation. Most recently, he held a senior position at Steinepreis Paganin and, prior to that, worked at Clayton Utz and Phillips Fox (now DLA Piper). Mr Tydde holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Notre Dame Australia.

As Chief Development Officer, Mr. Weimann oversees the overall project development. His responsibilities include managing drilling operations and securing all necessary permits to ensure the successful execution of projects.

Mr Weimann can look back on more than 25 years of professional experience in the fields of geothermal energy and drilling technology. He is the technical managing director of the German Geothermal Association.

Andres Zöldi is a petroleum engineer and energy executive with over 20 years of international experience in reservoir development, operations, and strategic leadership. He began his career at Chevron, where he worked across Argentina, the US, Canada, and Asia in roles spanning engineering, project execution, and business planning. Most recently, Mr Zöldi was Vice President of Operations at Parex Resources, leading large-scale field development, drilling and completions, facilities construction, and ESG initiatives in Colombia.

He holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires and an MBA from Rice University. Originally from Argentina, he is fluent in Spanish, English, and Hungarian and is now based in Germany with his wife and three children.