Oceana Lithium Ltd (OCN)

Mr Caue (Paul) Araujo

Chief Executive Officer

Caue is a qualified Australian-Brazilian geologist and an experienced mining industry professional. Following his early training with Vale in Brazil his subsequent roles have included General Manager of SRK Consulting Brazil, Regional Director of Investment and Business Planning at Hatch for Australia and Asia and more recently Global General Manager – Mine Finance with mining industry advisory group Palaris Australia. He has a strong aptitude for the technical and economic evaluation of mineral resource projects, having been involved in the development of numerous projects during his career working with finance providers and equity investors including emerging lithium miners and mine gate concentrate producers.

Caue is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (AusIMM), the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and has an MBA (Project Management, Business and Finance) from Ibmec University, Brazil. Through his diverse experience, Caue has refined his abilities to lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams. He is well acquainted with the key chemical companies, battery producers and EV manufacturers’ supply chain and their requirements to secure environmentally responsible long-term sources of lithium supply.

Caue is based in Perth and brings the Oceana team both critical minerals industry experience, broader corporate leadership skills and extensive international experience.

Jerome (Gino) Vitale

Non-Executive Chairman

Mr Vitale is an experienced corporate executive and public company director with over 30 years experience in operational, investment banking and advisory roles in the mining and mineral resource sector in Australia and Internationally. He has specialised in turnaround situations in the mining sector and is currently a non-executive director od TSX-V listed Denarius Metals Corporation which is developing a +1m oz Au equivalent gold-copper project in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in southern Spain.

Mr Vitale is a Chartered Accountant, a Senior Fellow and former Vice President of Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA) and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. During the mid 2000’s he was invited onto the ASX Corporate Governance Review Committee and has a practical perspective on best practice governance compliance for small to mid-cap companies

Qingtao Zeng

Non-Executive Director

Dr Zeng has been extensively involved in the lithium exploration and development sector and is well connected with potential off-take partners having acted as intermediary for the supply or purchase of spodumene concentrate for a number of producers. He has been engaged as a consulting geologist in a range of geological and commercial environments.

Dr Zeng completed a PhD in geology at the Centre of Exploration Targeting (CET) of University of Western Australia in 2013. Dr Zeng has published several academic papers on structure control orogenic gold system in different geological scales, and is a member of AUSIMM and Society of Economic Geologist (SEG). He is currently Managing Director of Australasian Metals Ltd, and a non-executive Director of Kodal Minerals plc, MetalsTech Ltd and Winsome Resources Ltd

Simon Mottram

Non-Executive Director

Mr Mottram is a geologist with 28 years’ experience predominantly in base and precious metals. Mr Mottram has held both executive and senior management positions with several successful mining companies in various countries. He has progressed multiple discoveries through to commercial production and has been responsible for several significant exploration successes.

He is currently a Non-Exec Director of ASX listed Companies Medusa Mining, Odin Metals and FIN Resources and previously an Executive Director of Odin Metals, Avanco Resources, purchased on market by mid-tier Australian copper producer OZ Minerals for circa $440M in 2018, and Avenue Resources. Mr Mottram is an Australian and British national and a permanent resident of Brazil, where is he has lived for the majority of the last 11 years and is fluent in Portuguese. He has previously acted as both CP or QP for various ASX and TSX listed companies, is a Fellow of the AusIMM and a graduate of Melbourne RMIT University.

James Abson

Senior Exploration Manager

Mr Abson is a geologist with over 28 years of experience in multi-commodity mining and mineral exploration and has held various positions from public company Vice President of Exploration to CEO. Mr Abson has been involved in the exploration and technical and financial assessment of various lithium pegmatite projects globally, including the Arcadia lithium project in Zimbabwe (later sold in April 2022 to Chinese interests for an underlying value in excess of $530 million). His most recent position was Chief Geologist and Exploration Manager for Bikita Minerals’ lithium mine in Zimbabwe, where his primary responsibility was hard-rock resource exploration (spodumene, lepidolite, petalite, pollucite and tantalum) and in-pit reserve expansion.

Mr Abson provides technical and strategic input to the Company’s Board of Directors and technical oversight and leadership to the exploration team to establish and guide exploration targeting, program execution, project development strategy and evaluation and assessment of new project opportunities.

Renato Braz Sue

Exploration Manager, Brazil

Mr Braz Sue is an experienced geologist with over 25 years of exploration and project development experience in his native Brazil and internationally, having worked in numerous terranes and commodities including L-C-T minerals, copper- lead-zinc in VMS-style environments, gold, nickel, quartz and manganese. His experience includes planning and execution of exploration programs from early to advanced stage and mine expansion projects and providing technical leadership for project feasibility studies and evaluation.

He has worked in senior roles in various states in Brazil for junior, mid-tier and major national and international partner companies including Yamana Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, Horizonte Minerals, CVRD/Phelps Dodge, Xstrata/Jaguar Mining, Eldorado Gold Corp, and Cougar, Brazil. He brings to the Company deep local knowledge and established relationships with professional service providers as well as local landowners.

Uwe Naeher

Exploration Manager, Canada

Mr Naeher has over 30 years’ experience in a wide range of terrains and deposit types in all aspects of exploration. He is an expert in granite-hosted ore deposits and mineralisation in pegmatites, having worked the past 15 years in the African Great Lakes region in the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi.

Dan Smith

Company Secretary

Mr Smith has 15 years’ experience in financial markets, including 10 years’ experience with listing rules compliance and corporate governance. He is a director and co-founder of Minerva Corporate Pty Ltd, a boutique corporate services and advisory firm.

Mr. Smith is a fellow member of the Governance Institute of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Curtin University. Mr Smith is Chairman of ASX listed rare earths explorer DY6 Limited and acts as company secretary for a number of ASX, AIM and NSX listed companies.

Nick Rowley

Corporate Consultant

Mr Rowley is an experienced resource company executive with a career spanning more than 17 years in corporate development and commercial roles specialising in M&A transactions, corporate advisory and equities markets.

Mr Rowley’s most recent role as Director – Corporate Development for Galaxy Resources (nsinxe merged with Allkem Ltd) where he oversaw all sales and marketing, business development and investor relations functions.