Brian Menell

Chairman & CEO TechMet

Brian Menell is the Chairman & CEO of TechMet Limited, a leading critical minerals investment company with a portfolio of assets that responsibly produce, process, and recycle the metals that are the essential ingredients of 21st-century technology. TechMet’s major shareholders include the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), S2G Investments, and Mercuria. He has over 25 years’ experience funding, developing and managing mining, energy, trading and agri-industry projects across Africa, Europe and the Americas. TechMet’s portfolio of ten assets across four continents includes lithium extraction from both brine and hard rock sources, nickel and cobalt hydroxide production from laterite ores, vanadium chemical production from industrial waste feedstocks, rare earth production and processing, tin and tungsten mining, lithium-ion battery recycling, and high-performance cathode manufacturing. Brian serves as a Director of a number of TechMet’s investee companies, including: Trinity Metals Ltd., US Vanadium LLC, Brazilian Nickel Ltd. and TechMet SCM. He holds a B.A (Hon.) in Political Science & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.