GGG:CC - G6 Materials Announces New Senior Hires to Support Company Growth
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Ronkonkoma, New York, USA - TheNewswire –March 21, 2022 - G6 Materials Corp. (“G6” or the “Company”)(TSXV:GGG ) ( OTC:GPHBF), ahigh-tech company with expertise in advanced materials and developinginnovative composites for a wide range of industrial uses, is pleasedto announce the expansion of its executive leadership and operationsteam to support the Company in its next phase of growth.
Elena Polyakova will be rejoining G6 as Co-Chief Executive Officer, joining Daniel Stolyarov effective immediately. She is a co-founder of G6and the former co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officerof the Company, with a deep understanding of graphene and advancedmaterials.
Additionally, the Company has hired Scott Pelt as FinancialController, an accomplished financial executivewho will play a critical role in G6’s corporate financingtransactions, business acquisitions, FP&A, and positioning for afuture up-listing to a national exchange.
Finally, G6 has hired Matthew Abenante, IRC as Head of InvestorRelations , a leading expert in financialcommunications, to deliver a robust investor relations program thatsupports G6’s investment thesis and expands investor outreach acrossinvestment centers throughout North America to achieve a morefavorable market valuation for the Company.
“We are delighted to welcome such high-qualityprofessionals to G6’s leadership team at this important stage of ourcompany’s development,” commented President & Co-CEO DanielStolyarov. “In recent months, G6 has taken major strides in itsbusiness expansion, in large part due to Elena’s tremendous efforts.This expansion includes opening our new distribution center inCerritos, CA, to support our specialized graphene-enhanced airpurifier products and achieving a five-fold production capacityexpansion at our ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility inRonkonkoma, New York, after successfully installing our pilot-scalegraphene oxide reactor. We also recently announced the relaunch ofGraphene-Supermarket.com to serve our growing customer base better.These initiatives were made to capture a growing addressable marketfor advanced materials and graphene applications.
“With Scott and Matthew joining our team, we now haveincreased financial strength and capital markets support to help G6double down on innovation and successfully commercialize smarttechnology at a large scale to satisfy growing market demands,”concluded Mr. Stolyarov.
Scott Pelt is an accomplished financial executivewith deep experience in financial reporting and analysis, planning andbudgeting, reserving, internal control, business process improvement,and project management. Previously, Mr. Van Peltheld consulting and leadership positions with Kemper InsuranceCompany, Kingstone Insurance Company, Choice Home Warranty, andCitibank. Mr. Van Pelt earned a Master of Business Administration atFairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accountingfrom the University of Notre Dame.
Matthew Abenante, IRC isa leading expert in investor relations with over 15 years ofexperience delivering world-class financial and corporatecommunications services to companies across all industries and sizes.Currently, Mr. Abenante is the founder and President of StrategicInvestor Relations, Inc., a boutique investor relations agency servinga portfolio of high-growth company clients. Mr. Abenante was part ofthe first cohort to earn the Investor Relations Charter (IRC) from theNational Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) in 2016 and was named oneof NIRI’s “Rising Leaders Under 40” in 2019. Mr. Abenante earneda Master of Science in Investor Relations at Fordham University and aBachelor of Business Administration at the City University of New York- Baruch College.
Elena Polyakova is a well-recognized expert in grapheneand advanced materials in industry and academia and a frequentlyinvited speaker at major international conferences. As a pioneer inthe commercial graphene production market, Polyakova founded Graphene Supermarket in 2010, thepremier supplier within the graphene industry, serving thousands ofclients worldwide, spanning the Fortune 500 and leading universitiesand other institutions throughout 100+ countries. She alsosignificantly contributed to developing the Company’s IPportfolio.
Polyakova is co-founder of G6 Materials Corp. (formerlyknown as Graphene 3D Lab Inc.) and served as co-Chief ExecutiveOfficer from 2015-2018 and Chief Operating Officer from 2013-2018.Polyakova holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University ofSouthern California. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University,she was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the structure ofgraphene experimentally. In 2019, she was a Senior Research Fellow atthe Centre for Advanced 2D Materials at the National University ofSingapore. Her expertise in 2D materials has been covered byprestigious news agencies such as BBC and Bloomberg. Additionally,Polyakova has co-authored papers with Nobel and Kavli prize winnersand members of the National Academy of Sciences.
In addition to today’s hirings, G6 announces thateffective immediately, Roman Rabinovich willstep down as a member of its Board of Directors. As part of theannouncement, the Board appointed Elena Polyakova as a director of G6Materials Corp. G6 would like to thank Mr. Rabinovich for all that hehas done for the Company and wish him all the best.
Pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option Plan adoptedat the last AGM and subject to the policies of the TSX VentureExchange, G6 is granting 6,900,000 options to Officers of the Company,its Directors, Employees, and Service providers. The options areexercisable at a price C$0.10 for five years. Among these optionsgranted, 2,000,000 are subject to a 3-year vesting schedule, where 25%of the options will be granted immediately, and 25% will be granted ateach anniversary.
G6 Materials Corp. is a high-tech company withexpertise in advanced materials and developing innovative compositesfor a wide range of industrial uses. Graphene Laboratories Inc., awholly-owned subsidiary of G6, sells a range of graphene-basedproducts and other materials, including conductive epoxies,high-performance composites, and R&Dmaterials, with numerous customers from among the Fortune 500 list ofcompanies, as well as NASA and leading universities. GrapheneLaboratories Inc. is developing other innovative products, includinggraphene-enhanced air purifiers. It plans to enter the globalfiltration market once all testing is complete and applicablegovernment approvals are received.
G6 has identified new graphene-based applications toaccelerate growth into the future. Accordingly, the Company has avaluable IP portfolio currently comprised of five granted patents. TheCompany’s management team and employees have a deep understanding ofgraphene technology based on decades of aggregate academic andcommercial experience. Graphene Laboratories Inc., with its ISO9001-certified facility located in Ronkonkoma, New York, hasestablished its premium research laboratory and scalable productionfacility and is equipped with a pilot-scale graphene oxide reactor andadvanced analytical and material processing equipment.
The Company’s e-commerce websites are listedbelow:
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Conductive Epoxies: Adhesive materials distributedunder the G6-Epoxy TM trade name and can be purchased at www.g6-epoxy.com
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D Materials: Graphene Laboratories Inc. currentlyoffers over 100 graphene and related products available at www.graphene-supermarket.com
Commercial Inquiries:
Telephone: (631) 405-5113
Email: info@g6-materials.com
Investor Inquiries:
Matthew Abenante, IRC
Head of Investor Relations
Telephone: (631) 405-5114
Email: investors@g6-materials.com
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD: Daniel Stolyarov, President& Co-CEO
For more information on G6 Materials Corp., pleasevisit www.G6-Materials.com or its profile page on SEDAR at www.sedar.com .
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the applicable securitieslegislation that is based on expectations, estimates and projectionsas at the date of this news release. By their nature, forward-lookingstatements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and otherfactors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements,or other future events, to be materially different from any futureresults, performance or achievements expressed or implied by suchforward-looking statements. “Forward-lookinginformation” in this news release includes but is not limited toinformation about the graphene-enhanced air purifier (includingefficacy and potential commercialization thereof); information aboutthe potential for the Company’s long-term growth; the business goalsand objectives of the Company, and other forward-looking informationconcerning the intentions, plans and future actions of the parties tothe transactions described herein and the terms thereon.
The forward-looking information in this news releasereflects the current expectations, assumptions and/or beliefs of theCompany based on information currently available to the Company.Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in theforward-looking information are reasonable, forward-lookinginformation is not a guarantee of future performance and accordinglyundue reliance should not be put on such information due to theinherent uncertainty therein.
Risk factors that could cause actual results to differmaterially include, but are not limited to, the risk that actualresults in commercial applications of the graphene-enhanced airpurifier may differ significantly from the Test Results; the TestResults may not be accepted by applicable regulatory agencies requiredto approve commercialization of the graphene-enhanced air purifier;the Company may not receive required approvals from regulatoryagencies to commercialize the graphene-enhanced air purifier; theCompany may not achieve further stages of commercialization of thegraphene-enhanced air purifier as anticipated, or at all; risksassociated with adoption by industries of graphene-based productshealth and environmental factors affecting adoption of thesetechnologies; the company may fail to obtain appropriate governmentapprovals or accreditation related to the business’ operations andtechnological processes; the results of the tests being performed byan independent laboratory may be unsatisfactory and prevent thecompany from receiving government approvals and accreditations; themarket conditions and demand for its product as well as the marketprices of such products being developed by the company may change overtime; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts ofinterest among certain officers, directors or promoters with certainother projects; competition; dilution; and the volatility of ourcommon share price and volume.
The Company undertakes no obligation to revise orupdate any forward-looking information other than as required bylaw.
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SOURCE: G6 Materials Corp.
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