– CANADA, Vancouver – Ceylon Graphite Corp. (TSX: CYL | OTC: CYLYF | FSE: CCY) today announced the appointment of Jody Lenihan to its Board of Directors.
“Jody has years of Sri Lankan business experience, success and relationships,” said Chairman and CEO, Bharat Parashar. “Now that we are in commercial production, we will benefit from his experience as we grow and expand our business to mine and process the highest grade graphite for the growing lithium-ion battery/energy storage market.”
About Jody Lenihan
Jody Lenihan has had tremendous success doing business in Sri Lanka. He is one of the founding shareholders of Ceylon Graphite and was Co-Founder and CEO of South Asia Energy Management Systems, formerly Sri Lanka’s largest independent hydropower producer. With Sprott Asset Management as its largest shareholder, SAEMS was involved in the development, construction, and operation of run-of-river hydropower facilities in Sri Lanka and Uganda including eleven projects totaling 40MW in Sri Lanka, and two totaling 27MW project in Uganda, recently selling its business to multiple interests.
“I’m excited to join the Board of Ceylon Graphite,” said Jody Lenihan. “As one of the founders of this company, I am proud that the company has come so far in such a short time and is fulfilling its potential. I am looking forward to being part of the team that drives the business to the next level and continues the company’s evolution from a producer of natural graphite to a technology company involved in the production of high-value add graphite and graphene products.”
Jody has also served as co-founder of AtlasPower Inc., where he oversaw teams performing electrical acceptance testing, startup, commissioning, and power systems design around the globe, for generation facilities as large as 2,000MW, and electrical switchyards of up to 500kV. He is currently also President & CEO, Renewable Solutions Partners Pte Ltd., Singapore, a company involved in the development, construction, and operation of run-of-river hydropower, solar, and biomass generation facilities in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, and Ghana.
About Ceylon Graphite Corp.
Ceylon Graphite is a public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, that is in the business of mining for graphite, and developing and commercializing innovative graphene and graphite applications and products. Graphite mined in Sri Lanka is known to be some of the purest in the world and has been confirmed to be suitable to be easily upgradable for a range of applications including the high-growth electric vehicle and battery storage markets as well as construction, healthcare, and paints, and coatings sectors. The Government of Sri Lanka has granted the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd. an IML Category A license for its K1 mine and exploration rights in a land package of over 120km². These exploration grids (each one square kilometer in area) cover areas of historic graphite production from the early twentieth century and represent a majority of the known graphite occurrences in Sri Lanka.
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