Michael White Joins Piedmont Lithium as Main Monetary Officer
Piedmont Lithium Inc., (“Piedmont” or the “Business”) (NASDAQ: PLL ASX: PLL), a thoroughly clean energy business centered on the built-in output of lithium hydroxide to support the U.S. electric motor vehicle supply chain, today introduced the appointment of Michael White as Govt Vice President and Chief Money Officer. Reporting to the CEO, Keith Phillips, Mr. White provides deep accounting and finance experience to Piedmont, and will oversee the Company’s fiscal accounting and reporting, budgeting and forecasting, inner controls, compliance, treasury, tax, and risk administration functions.
“We’re delighted to welcome Michael as our Chief Money Officer and the newest member of our quickly-growing management team,” reported CEO, Keith Phillips. “We are getting into an fascinating period for Piedmont as we get ready to allocate cash and ramp-up bodily operations of our built-in lithium hydroxide small business in North Carolina. Michael’s established keep track of document of developing and executing finance organizational strategy and fixing advanced small business difficulties will be invaluable to us as we work as a U.S. domiciled organization. His history in controllership, corporate governance, public organization reporting, economical preparing and examination and prolonged-time period strategic preparing make him a wonderful addition to our Piedmont relatives.”
Mr. White joins Piedmont from ChampionX Corporation (NASDAQ: CHX), previously Apergy Corporation (NYSE: APY), a multi-billion-dollar production, chemicals, and providers business, in which he served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Company Controller with duties for primary the company’s world-wide accounting and monetary reporting. In this job, Mr. White led enterprise-extensive transformation of the international controllership operate, created sustainable financial reporting with important performance metrics for operational leadership, and delivered monetary leadership similar to mergers and acquisition pursuits, which includes a thriving IPO. Prior to ChampionX, Mr. White held the place of Senior Vice President, Main Accounting Officer and Company Controller for Aegion Company (NASDAQ: AEGN), a world manufacturing and providers organization serving the industrial, oil and gasoline and water industries. Mr. White has held senior monetary leadership positions in the course of his 25-calendar year profession with businesses principally in the strength and know-how sectors, including roles as Main Monetary Officer of Baker Electrical power and as a manager in the assurance exercise with Ernst & Younger.
Mr. White gained his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the University of Houston and is a licensed CPA and member of the American Institute of Qualified General public Accountants.
About Piedmont:
Piedmont is producing a environment-class built-in lithium company in the United States, enabling the changeover to a internet zero planet and the generation of a clean up vitality financial state in America. Our spot in the renowned Carolina Tin Spodumene Belt of North Carolina, positions us to be one particular of the world’s least expensive charge producers of lithium hydroxide and the most strategically situated to provide the speedy-expanding U.S. electric vehicle source chain. The exclusive geographic proximity of our assets, output functions and potential customers, places Piedmont on the route to be the most sustainable producer of lithium hydroxide in the entire world and make it possible for Piedmont to play a pivotal role in supporting America’s shift to the electrification of transportation and electricity storage. Extra data is available at www.piedmontlithium.com.
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Contacts
Keith Phillips
President & CEO
T: +1 973 809 0505
E: [email protected]
Brian Risinger
VP – Trader Relations and Company Communications
T: +1 704 910 9688
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