Innovative recycler for critical metals, battery grade metals and cathode precursors

Management Team

Tarun Bhatt
 
Mr. Bhatt is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Aleon Metals, Gladieux Metals Recycling and Aleon Renewable Metals. His experience includes engineering, research, product development, manufacturing, and finance. He led global cross-functional engineering teams and product launches at Ford Motor Company and Caterpillar. He led corporate finance groups at Bank of Montreal/KGS-Alpha Capital, J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, and Knight Capital Group. He co-founded Postlane Partners, a commodities investment group, and led acquisitions of transmix processing refinery in Indiana and spent catalyst recycling company in Texas. Mr. Bhatt holds B.S. and M.S in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from Tennessee Technological University; and dual MBA/MEM degrees from Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has published research papers in artificial neural networks, and hold U.S. patents in Automotive NVH and Spent Catalyst & Battery Recycling.
 
Giles Dunn
 
 
 
Gerardo Valdes
 
 
 
 

Board of Directors

Al Salazar
 
Mr. Salazar serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Salazar brings over 30 years of experience in funding, startup operations, and oversight of commercial scale projects. He is currently the CEO of all Jefferson Enterprise entities. He started the Jefferson group of companies when he conceived of and executed the end-to-end development of the Jefferson Energy Terminal in Beaumont, Texas -the largest multi-modal petroleum liquids terminal in the nation. He has now focused the Jefferson team on the development of a portfolio of “green energy” assets.
 
 
Ken Nicholson
 
Mr. Nicholson serves as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Nicholson is the Chief Executive Officer and President of FTAI Infrastructure. He has served on the Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC (Nasdaq: FTAI) board of directors since May 2016. Mr. Nicholson is a Managing Director at Fortress focusing on investments in the transportation, infrastructure and energy industries, including investments made by FTAI. He joined Fortress in May 2006. Previously, Mr. Nicholson worked in investment banking at UBS Investment Bank and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he was a member of the transportation industry group. Mr. Nicholson holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
 
Tarun Bhatt
 
Mr. Bhatt serves as a member of our Board of Directors. His experience includes engineering, research, product development, manufacturing, and corporate finance at global companies. Mr. Bhatt holds B.S. and M.S in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from Tennessee Technological University; and dual MBA/MEM degrees from Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has published research papers in artificial neural networks and holds U.S. patents.

Gladieux Metals Recycling (GMR)   |   Aleon Renewable Metals (ARM)   |   302 Midway Road, Freeport, Texas