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Giga US 26
Giga US 26
All Speakers
Meet all the speakers presenting at Giga US 26

Pete Stauber
Congressman
Representative of Minnesota

Stacy Newstead
Materials Strategy & Risk Manager
Lockheed Martin

Pat Risner
President, Hermosa
South32

Tara Berrie
Director of Battery Cell Materials & Rare Earth Sourcing
Rivian

Bob Lee
CEO, North America
LG Energy Solutions

Matthew McCowan
US Lithium Manager
ExxonMobil

Stephen Kosowski
Manager, Long Range Planning & Strategy
Kia USA

Darias Jonker
Head of Government & International Relations, Americas
Anglo American Plc

Brian Greeley
Chief Banking Officer
EXIM Bank

Andrew Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Caspar Rawles
Chief Operating Officer
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Adam Panayi
Chief Research Officer
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Turner Caldwell
Co-Founder & CEO
Mariana Minerals

Chip Dunn
Founder & Chairman
M2Graphite

Jonathan Evans
CEO
Lithium Americas

Sam Jaffe
VP of Business Development
Mana Battery

Forrest Levy
Solar and Storage Analyst
SEIA

Cristobal Undurraga
CEO
Ceibo

Chris Reed
Managing Director & CEO
Neometals

Craig Weich
Operating Advisor
Breakthrough Energy

George Ingall
Price Analyst
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Iola Hughes
Head of Research
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Albert Mackenzie
Copper Analyst
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Daniel Fletcher-Manuel
Director - Indexing & Derivatives
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Bryan Bille
Lead Policy and Geopolitical Analyst
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Hasan Nasar
Head of Policy
Crux Climate

Daniel Anziska
Partner
Troutman Pepper Locke

David Park
CEO
Standard Lithium

Austin Devaney
North American Representative Director
ILiA

James Trevey
Chief Technology Officer
Forge Nano

Christopher Robb
Principal
Robb Commodity Consulting

Andrew Waranch
Founder
Spearmint Energy

Stefan Debruyne
VP Sustainability and Global Affairs
Novandino Litio

Eric Shields
Senior Battery Advisor - Policy, Analysis, & Transition OASD, Industrial Base Policy, OUSD for Acqui
U.S. Department of Defense

Robert Winans
Vice President of Supply Chain
Panasonic

Paul Dorsey
Deputy General Counsel and Head of Federal Affairs
Samsung

Kenan Arkan
Managing Director
JP Morgan

Eric Norris
EVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Albemarle

Denise Gray
CEO
DKTN Consulting

Melvin Hill
Vice President
GE Chaplin

Mark Smith
Executive Chairman
NioCorp

Siddarth Subramani
Global Director, Lithium
Hatch

Nicholas Snowdon
Chief Metals & Minerals Economist
Mercuria

Jeff Morrison
Senior Vice President & Global Chief Procurement Officer
General Motors

Craig Shesky
CFO
The Metals Co.

James Deckelman
CEO
Deep Sea Minerals Corp

Bruce Westerman
Congressman
Representative of Arkansas

Mark Kristoff
CEO
Traxys

John Worth
CEO
Geo40

Teague Egan
CEO
EnergyX

Salim Bhabhrawala
Senior Critical Materials Advisor
Bondi Partners (Former DoE)

Marc Fogassa
CEO
Atlas Lithium Corporation

Ken Biberaj
Executive Managing Director
Savills

Leah Nodvin
Director of Government and External Affairs
BMW

Manish Backliwal
Senior Director
Aquatech

James Mismash
Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Growth
US Department of War

Michael Meding
Managing Director
McEwen Copper

Megan Carr
Associate Director for Strategic Resources
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Danielle Montgomery
Vice President, Office of Infrastructure & Critical Minerals
DFC

Luis Lucero
Minister of Mining
Embassy of the Argentine Republic in the United States

Stefan Spears
VP Corporate Development
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