Author
Hugues Jacquemin
Chief Executive Officer
Northern Graphite Corporation
Montreal, Canada
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I seek partnerships with companies to grow our applications downstream in Li Ion Batteries and other markets driven by the Energy Transition.
My organisation
Northern Graphite is a Canadian, TSX Venture Exchange listed company that is focused on becoming a world leader in producing natural graphite and upgrading it into high value products critical to the green economy including anode material for lithium-ion batteries/EVs, fuel cells and graphene, as well as advanced industrial technologies.
It is a vertically integrated graphite producer, from mine to downstream supply. This allows the opportunity to optimise at each stage of the process and work to identify new ways to both utilise graphite products in the green space, but also ways to improve the processing of graphite to reduce chemical and energy consumption.
Northern is the only significant graphite producing company in North America. Its Lac des Iles mine has been producing graphite for over 30 years. The company also has two large scale development projects, Bissett Creek in Ontario and Okanjande in Namibia. These have “battery quality” graphite and are located close to infrastructure in politically stable jurisdictions.
About me
Mr Jacquemin has over 30 years of senior management experience growing Specialty Materials businesses for listed Fortune 500 (AVY, OC, NK.PA) and Private Equity (Platinum Equity) held companies in a broad spectrum of industries including graphite mining and processing, lithium ion and other battery materials, fuel cells and hydrogen production, graphene and carbon nanotubes, synthetic graphite and carbon materials as well as carbon and glass fiber composites.
From April 2014 to September 2018, Hugues was Chief Executive Officer of the Graphite and Carbon Division of Imerys S.A. where he led the development of the Namibian Graphite mine as well as spearheaded a large investment program to develop a full line of Li Ion battery materials for the fast-growing EV market.
From September 2018 to April 2020 Hugues was the CEO for the Americas for OCSIAL a leader in the Carbon Nanotube industry.
From February 2021 to February 2022, he acted as an independent expert for NINE58 Advisors, an arm’s length investment advisory firm based in the United Kingdom which advised Northern on the acquisitions of the Lac des Iles and Namibian Graphite mines from Imerys.
From February 2022 To June 2022 Hugues has been an independent Special Advisor to the board of Northern Graphite. Hugues is a Belgian citizen and fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
In June 2022 he was named CEO and Director of Northern Graohite.
My organisation
Northern Graphite Corporation
Skills
- Graphite
- Application Development
- M&A
- Energy transition
Interests
- Li Ion Batteries
- Thermal Management
- Graphene
- electrification
- Copper Replacement