{"id":3161,"date":"2022-11-25T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/eurobattery-minerals-strengthens-finnish-hautalampi-team-with-new-experienced-managing-director\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:43:20","slug":"eurobattery-minerals-strengthens-finnish-hautalampi-team-with-new-experienced-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/eurobattery-minerals-strengthens-finnish-hautalampi-team-with-new-experienced-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurobattery Minerals strengthens Finnish Hautalampi team with new experienced Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stockholm, 25 November 2022<\/strong> \u2013 The mining company Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngm.se\/en\/our-companies\/eurobattery-minerals-ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BAT<\/a>\u201d and B\u00f6rse Stuttgart: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boerse-stuttgart.de\/de-de\/produkte\/aktien\/stuttgart\/a2pg12-eurobattery-minerals-ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EBM<\/a>\u201d; in short: \u201cEBM\u201d, \u201cEurobattery\u201d or \u201cthe Company\u201d) today announced that Mr. Ilari Kinnunen has been appointed new Managing Director (MD) of FinnCobalt Oy in Finland as of 01<sup>st<\/sup> of March 2023, replacing the current MD Markus Ekberg, who will be retiring. Markus Ekberg will continue as the Chairman of the Board of FinnCobalt Oy. Mr. Ilari Kinnunen, will be responsible for the development and operations of Hautalampi battery mineral mine development project. Eurobattery Minerals owns 40% of the FinnCobalt Oy and Hautalampi project and has the option to acquire 100%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Ilari to Eurobattery Minerals. With his experience, he will be instrumental in developing our battery mineral project in Finland into a mine. At the same time, I would like to express my big gratitude to Markus, who has been a critical part of our operations in bringing us this far. In his position, he has paved the way for a very promising battery mineral mine in Finland,\u201d said Roberto Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.<\/p>\n<p>Ilari Kinnunen brings almost 20 years of experience in different roles in the mining sector. Most recently, he was the Senior Mining Manager in Finland at global company Elementis Minerals Oy, where he previously held several other senior positions. Ilari has an M. Sc. in Mineral Engineering from the Aalto University, department of chemistry and material science. He will be based in Outokumpu in Finland, where the Hautalampi project is located.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to join Eurobattery Minerals and take on the responsibility of developing the highly promising Hautalampi mine project with the rest of the talented team. Having the full right to exploit all the mineral resources in the mining concession area the pre-feasibility study is our next priority,\u201d said Ilari Kinnunen.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>About Eurobattery Minerals<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on Swedish Nordic Growth Market (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngm.se\/marknaden\/vardepapper?symbol=BAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BAT<\/a>) and German B\u00f6rse Stuttgart (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boerse-stuttgart.de\/de-de\/produkte\/aktien\/stuttgart\/a2pg12-eurobattery-minerals-ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EBM<\/a>). With the vision to make Europe self-sufficient in responsibly mined battery minerals, the company\u2019s focus is to realize numerous nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply critical raw materials and, as such, power a cleaner world.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.eurobatteryminerals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.eurobatteryminerals.com<\/a> for more information. Feel free to follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/eurobattery-minerals-ab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurobatterymin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact FinnCobalt Oy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Markus Ekberg \u2013 Managing Director<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <u>markus.ekberg@finncobalt.com<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Phone +358 40 706 4850<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Eurobattery Minerals AB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roberto Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez \u2013 CEO<\/p>\n<p><u>E-mail:<\/u> <a href=\"mailto:info@eurobatteryminerals.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">info@eurobatteryminerals.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Investor Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sara Pinto<\/p>\n<p>Phone: +49 (0) 89-1250903-35<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:ir@eurobatteryminerals.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ir@eurobatteryminerals.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Augment Partners AB is the mentor to Eurobattery Minerals AB<\/p>\n<p>Phone: +46 (0) 86 042 255<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:mailto:%20info@augment.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">info@augment.se<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm, 25 November 2022 \u2013 The mining company Eurobattery Minerals  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uutiset-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finncobalt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}