International Battery Metals Names Jancik CEO

The new CEO at International Battery Metals Ltd., Iris Jancik, has taken the helm, effective today, following her June 3 appointment.

Jancik succeeds Garry Flowers as CEO. Flowers joined IBAT for a two-year period, starting as president in July 2022 and moving to CEO in December 2022.

She will focus on expanding commercial deployment of IBAT's patented modular direct lithium extraction (DLE) plants and engaging with potential partners and buyers.

Prior to joining IBAT, Jancik served as CEO of IDE Americas, a subsidiary of IDE Technologies, a global desalination and water treatment solutions company, where she was responsible for the development and operations of major infrastructure projects."The timing of IBAT's breakthrough technology is ideal given soaring demand for lithium batteries to power EVs and energy storage," said Jancik. "I look forward to accelerating our growth as we expand commercially to meeting this demand with an unmatched lithium extraction technology that can be cost-effectively and quickly deployed, sustainably operated to respect water resources, and easily scalable in a variety of brine resources."

With IBAT's first commercial operations operational as of July 11, 2024, Jancik will advance ongoing discussions the company has held with large industrial companies, including automakers, as well as oil and gas majors and brine-resource owners, and seek additional prospects and potential stakeholders.

IBAT established a global lithium industry milestone in July, as it achieved first lithium from the only modular DLE operation in the world and the first commercial DLE operation in North America at a facility outside Salt Lake City, UT. The landmark plant is co-located at the operations of US Magnesium LLC and is successfully extracting lithium from a complex byproduct magnesium chloride / lithium chloride resource derived from historic magnesium production.