Rock Tech Appoints Esther Bahne as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
Press Release
Rock Tech Appoints Esther Bahne as Chief Strategy & Marketing
Officer
Vancouver, BC, Canada – October 8, 2021 – Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (the "Company" or
“Rock Tech”) (TSX-V: RCK; OTCQX: RCKTF; FWB: RJIB; WKN: A1XF0V) is pleased to
announce that Esther Bahne has joined the Company’s management team as Chief Strategy
& Marketing Officer.
Esther Bahne brings more than 16 years of experience in the automotive industry, previously
working at BMW Group, where she served as the Global Head of Strategy and Innovation
and Chief Marketing Officer at MINI, being responsible for the entire relaunch of the MINI
brand, and at Audi AG, where she led the company’s Social Innovation practice and
established its corporate sustainability strategy.
“We are thrilled to have Esther join our fast-growing, high caliber team,” said Dirk Harbecke,
Rock Tech’s Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. “Not only does she bring a wealth of
experience and intricate knowledge of the automotive industry, she’s also an accomplished
strategist and visionary with a track record of leading interdisciplinary, diverse teams with
operations around the world.”
Esther Bahne, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer: “I am excited to join Rock Tech on its
mission to fuel the green energy revolution. Our future life is based on batteries – from
mobile phones to cars. But if we want to rely on battery power to transform both our energy
and mobility sectors and battle climate change, we need to ensure we produce them
sustainably. Rock Tech is a pioneer in this effort, and I will support them in becoming the first
closed-loop lithium company world-wide.”
As the Company’s Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Esther Bahne will drive Rock Tech’s
sustainability agenda, help it develop its recycling business, and redeem its promise as a
cleantech company zeroing out emissions, one lithium battery at a time.
Esther Bahne, Rock Tech's Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
About Rock Tech Lithium Inc.
Rock Tech Lithium is a cleantech company with operations in Canada and Germany that will
supply the automotive industry with high quality lithium hydroxide "made in Germany". As
early as 2024, the company will commission Europe's first lithium converter with a
production capacity of 24,000 tonnes per year. This is equivalent to the volume needed to
equip around 500,000 electric cars with lithium-ion batteries.
The cleantech company has set itself the goal of creating the world's first closed loop for
lithium, thus closing the raw material gap on the road to clean mobility. Rock Tech owns the
Georgia Lake lithium project in Ontario, Canada and, as early as 2030, around 50 percent of
the raw materials used are expected to come from the recycling of batteries.
Rock Tech Lithium is listed on the TSX Venture and Frankfurt stock exchanges. The
company is led by Dirk Harbecke, Chairman & CEO, Stefan Krause, Chief Financial Officer,
and Don Stevens, Chief Technology Officer and Esther Bahne as Chief Strategy &
Marketing Officer.
Rock Tech Lithium - The super fuel for the battery age
www.rocktechlithium.com
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
For further information, please contact:
Thomas Rolfes
Head of Public Relations
Rock Tech Lithium Inc.
777 Hornby Street, Suite 600
Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 1S4
Telephone: (778) 358-5200
Facsimile: (604) 670-0033
Email: [email protected]
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demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, intermediate and final lithium products, expected growt h, performance
and business operation, prospects and opportunities, general business and economic conditions, results of development and exploration,
Rock Tech’s ability to procure supplies and other equipment necessary for its business, including development and exploration activities.
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performance and/or achievements to vary materially include the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they
fall due, changes in commodity prices, Rock Tech’s ability to retain and attract skilled staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers,
unanticipated events and other difficulties related to construction, development and operation of converters and mines, the cost of
compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations, title defects, competition from existing and new
competitors, changes in currency exchange rates and market prices of Rock Tech’s securities, Rock Tech’s history of losses, impacts of climate
change and other risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "Financial Instruments and Other Risks" in Rock Tech’s most recently
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