BrightRock Gold Corp. announced the addition of Aarya Shahsavar, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Innocorps Research Corporation (Innocorps), to its esteemed board of directors. The recent appointment enhances the composition of the board with seasoned executives and engineers, thereby creating significant prospects for achieving sustainable water autonomy and implementing dependable, environmentally friendly approaches for the company's remote lithium mining project in Arizona.

Aarya Shahsavar, P. Eng., is presently leading development as Chief Engineer for the Circular City consortium in the Department of National Defense Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security's (IDEaS) Pop Up City Contest. The outcome of this X-Prize-style contest is to deploy a full-scale relocatable camp that offers comprehensive reductions in energy, water, and waste utility systems over the current Relocatable Temporary Camps (RTC) used by the Canadian Armed Forces. The IDEaS Pop-Up City Contest is set to enter its concluding stage in August 2023.

In this phase, Innocorps participants will be in charge of the Circular City consortium, which will compete against the other top two finalist consortiums for a $2 million prize based on how well their systems perform in simulated environments. Aarya's plan for Innocorps and Circular City after the Pop Up City Contest is to use this experience and the relevant dual-use technologies that have been developed to meet the ESG requirements for mining companies, especially for remote mine exploration camps, to help minimize the potential environmental effects of new mines that will need to be built to drive the next phase of the sustainable energy transition. With his background in Engineering Physics, seven granted patents, and three more patents pending, he brings a first-principles approach to tackling problems.