Erez Ichilov

Founder and Manager Cedrus Arbor LLC

Erez Ichilov is a seasoned mining and metals executive, director, advisor and investor, with a legal and financial background. As of 2024, he is acting through his newly formed Cedrus Arbor LLC., and he is focused now mainly on projects for responsible mining of Battery Materials and other Critical Minerals and sustainable and processing technologies enabling the transition to renewable energy sources and electric transportation on route to global Carbon neutrality. 
 
From 2012 to 2023 he served as Managing Director at Traxys Project LP, the investments and projects arm of the Traxys Group, a well-established global physical trading house with an annual turnover of ~US $10 billion and approximately 500 employees, he led the direct and pooled investments Traxys made into Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. (LICY: NYSE), Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU.V), Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) and Nemaska Lithium (exchanged in 2022 for Livent Corp. (LTHM:NYSE) shares), Princeton Nuenergy, Nzuri Copper, a private high grade Manganese company is South Africa and more. 
 
Previously Mr. Ichilov was the Deputy CEO – Corporate Development of the Ferro-Nickel miner and producer Cunico Resources N.V (2008-2012), then an important producer of refined ferronickel in its two plants and integrated mines in Kosovo and North Macedonia, acquired mines in Guatemala and cooperated and traded with mines in Indonesia, Philippines, Albania and Turkey, and  had approximately 3,000 employees and reached annual production of approximately 30,000 tons of nickel (contained in Ferro-Nickel and sold globally to major stainless-steel companies).