American Battery Technology Company announced the appointment of Kimberly Eckert as its new Chief Financial Officer. Eckert has over two decades of corporate finance and strategic mineral resource development experience, working specifically within the critical minerals and precious metals industry, across the investment banking, corporate financial management, investment management, and strategic consulting fields. Eckert served as Vice President at Deutsche Bank in Global Corporate Investment Banking of its Natural Resources Metals & Mining group.

There, she managed a team of analysts and associates to provide strategic and transaction services to metals and mining companies including development of comprehensive strategic growth models, oversight of financial strategies and valuation models, and development and execution of M&A transactions. In her role as CFO at ABTC, Eckert will oversee all financial responsibilities of the company including executing the strategic financial roadmaps for the development and commercialization of the company's lithium-bearing Nevada-based sedimentary resource, of the company's lithium-ion battery recycling facility expansions, and of the company's roadmap for the manufacturing of battery grade nickel and cobalt products from domestic-US resources. She will also have responsibility for corporate functions including financial planning and analysis, accounting and controls, procurement, risk management, financial performance and revenue growth, reporting and compliance, and investor relations.

David Corsaut, who has served as CFO since October 2020 through the initial growth phase of the company, will support Eckert through a transition period over the coming weeks.