American Battery Metals (ABML) has announced the appointment of Nick Copping to the Company's advisory board. Copping is a technologist who began his career as a physicist at Cal Tech, later becoming senior research director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Copping is a former director of corporate engineering for Hewlett-Packard and served as CEO of Atherton Technology and Computer Resources International (CRI). Copping co-founded ZOOM Marketing in 1996; in 2004 he took a sabbatical from ZOOM to become a partner at Microsoft, where he developed the Microsoft Global SI strategy. In addition to serving on multiple boards, Copping is a Senior Fellow at the Ponemon Institute, which is dedicated to independent research and education that advances the responsible use of information and privacy management practices within business and government.