• Zeotech appoints former Andromeda Metals managing director James Marsh as its CEO
  • Marsh has experience in the kaolin and cement industries including overseeing metakaolin production and marketing with global materials leader Imerys
  • Appointment comes as company moves to become Australia’s first large-scale producer of high reactivity metakaolin

 

Special Report: Zeotech has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of veteran industrial metals executive James Marsh as its new chief executive officer as it seeks to become Australia’s first large-scale producer of high reactivity metakaolin.

Marsh has more than 30 years of experience across a wide range of industrial minerals and the materials sector with particular expertise in the kaolin and cement industries.

This includes senior technical, marketing, and executive management roles with ASX-listed companies, including a five-year tenure as Andromeda Metals’ managing director and chief executive officer.

Of special interest to Zeotech (ASX:ZEO) is Marsh’s 15 year tenure with French multinational Imerys Minerals, where he was the technical representative on a global kaolin calcination team, overseeing metakaolin production.

During this period, the use of metakaolin in building product applications and global intellectual property was developed and he was heavily involved in the technical development and marketing of metakaolin from operations in the UK, France, and the US.

Marsh has led high-performing teams and key contract negotiations, executed multimillion-dollar agreements, established global distributor partnerships, direct-to-market strategies, and numerous joint ventures.

He also managed industrial mineral projects through pre-feasibility and market appraisal stages, materials product development, and new product route-to-market strategy.

 

Still a key player

With Marsh’s appointment, current chief executive officer Scott Burkhart will be appointed as the company’s chief operating officer.

Burkhart will continue to play a key role with a focus on all operational and financial aspects of the company.

He will contribute to executing Zeotech’s strategic direction and maintaining key business relationships with industry stakeholders, which he developed during his tenure in the top job.

ZEO is focused on scaling up activities at its Toondoon project, marketing of high reactivity metakaolin to the low-carbon concrete and cement markets and advancing its strategy of becoming Australia’s first large-scale metakaolin producer.

Metakaolin is also the primary feedstock for the production of zeolites, porous mineral frameworks with three-dimensional structures composed of mainly of aluminium, silicon and oxygen that can trap, exchange or release ions and molecules.

This enables zeolites to find applications in diverse industrial and environmental contexts including the control of methane emissions from landfills and increasing organic carbon protection and the efficiency of fertiliser application when used as an agri-soil product.

Zeolites are also contained in a product used to prevent milk fever in cows.

 

This article was developed in collaboration with Zeotech, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.

This article does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent advice before making any financial decisions.

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