Providing the vital element for a better future
Watch VideoAt Arcadium Lithium, we’re charging ahead toward a more sustainable future. From the first lithium-ion battery to the breakthrough technologies of today, we’ve helped lead the way. We are change-makers, joining forces with our customers and communities to drive progress. Progress toward a world enabled by lithium—the elemental source powering modern life and our global transition to clean energy.
We are Arcadium Lithium: charging ahead, leading the change, together.
Paul Graves is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. As CEO of Livent, Paul was an integral part of the merger that created Arcadium Lithium. Previously, Paul was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FMC Corporation. Before joining FMC, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, serving in a variety of roles, including as Head of Natural Resources for Asia, Global Head of Agricultural Investment Banking, and Global Head of Chemical Investment Banking.
Gilberto Antoniazzi is our Chief Financial Officer, a role he also served in at Livent. Before joining Livent, Gilberto held leadership positions at FMC Corporation, including assignments in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil and Turkey. He was the Chief Financial Officer for FMC’s Agricultural Solutions business segment, as well as the Chief Financial Officer for the Latin America Region and Finance Director for the Europe, Middle East & Africa Region.
Sara Ponessa is our General Counsel and Secretary, a position she also held at Livent. As General Counsel and Secretary of Livent, she oversaw all legal matters worldwide for the company, including the successful merger of equals transaction between Livent and Allkem that created Arcadium Lithium. She brings over 25 years of experience across a breadth of legal and compliance functions. In addition to her roles at Arcadium Lithium and Livent, she has held senior counsel positions for the Lithium, Alkali and Peroxygens divisions of FMC Corporation and for AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies. Before joining AstraZeneca, she was Vice President and Risk Management and Compliance Section Manager for Wilmington Trust Company. Before Wilmington Trust Company, she practiced corporate law at Saul Ewing in Philadelphia and was a judicial clerk for the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Alicia Markmann is our Chief Human Resources Officer, a position she also held at Livent. Before joining Livent, Alicia held senior positions in HR and Talent Management at FMC Corporation. With more than 20 years of global experience in People Strategy and HR operations, including building and leading multi-disciplinary HR teams, Alicia works closely with management teams to deliver business results.
Barbara Fochtman is our Chief Operations Officer. Previously, Barbara was Chief Operations and Engineering Officer at Livent. She has 30 years of experience across operations, supply chain and procurement. At FMC Corporation, Barbara served as Plant Manager, Sales and Operations Planning Director and Procurement Director.
Christian Cortes is our Chief Integration and Transformation Officer. Christian was Allkem Limited’s Chief of Sales and Marketing prior to serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer since February 2023. Christian brings nearly 20 years of international business experience in the professional services, resources and chemical products industries. Christian began his career as a chartered accountant with PwC, working with public companies in audit, business performance and transaction support.
Denis Couture is the Managing Director at our Galaxy Lithium Mine project / operation in Canada. Previously, he was the Head of Canadian Operations at Allkem Limited. Denis is a qualified engineer with over 30 years of mining experience, specializing in operations in Northern Quebec. His previous roles include Vice President and General Manager at Ausenco, Project Manager of SNC-Lavalin in Montreal and has held leadership roles at Agnico-Eagle Mines and BHP.
J. Ignacio Costa is our General Manager of Argentina, and before Chief of Staff of Argentina. He was previously Corporate Affairs Sr. Director at Livent. Before joining Livent, Ignacio served as VP of Legal and Public Affairs at Wintershall Dea (BASF group) and held senior positions on M&A and New Business matters. Prior to that, he was a senior lawyer in leading Argentine Law Firms, advising multinational companies in oil and gas, energy, natural resources and infrastructure projects and regulation in Latin America, Europe and the US. Ignacio brings nearly 20 years of international and Argentina business experience.
Karen Vizental is our Chief Sustainability and Global Communications Officer. Previously, Karen was the Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer at Allkem Limited. She has also held senior leadership positions at Unilever and GlaxoSmithkline in Latin America. Karen also launched a successful company, Grupa PR, which provided institutional affairs and communications services to several international companies.
Liam Franklyn is our Head of Australian Operations. Previously, Liam held the same role for Allkem Limited. A qualified engineer with over 20 years’ operational experience, he has held senior roles spanning engineering, production and maintenance with BHP and Newcrest across Nickel, Iron Ore, Gold and Copper, with exposure throughout the value chain from mining to refining.
Neil is an accomplished business executive with significant engineering, construction and consulting experience leading large-scale, complex capital projects for Fortune 500 companies. Over the past four years, he ran his own consulting business and prior to that, Neil worked at Worley for 15 years in various positions of leadership, most recently as President of its Services Energy & Chemicals business line for the US Gulf Coast, US East & Power, Latin America and Saudi Arabia. Before joining Worley in 2005, Neil spent 19 years in the United Kingdom working for Consafe Engineering, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility, including Group Managing Director.
Sarah Maryssael is our Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Canada. Previously she was Chief Strategy Officer at Livent, responsible for leading enterprise efforts to grow and scale the business globally. Before joining Livent, Sarah led strategic sourcing of lithium and other battery metals for Tesla’s global battery supply chain across its Nevada, Shanghai, Berlin and Texas gigafactories. Prior to Tesla, Sarah occupied various roles at Boston Consulting Group, Vale and ExxonMobil.
Walter Czarnecki is our Chief Commercial Officer. He was previously Livent’s Chief Commercial Officer. Before joining Livent, Walter served as President and CEO of OmniMetrix, a publicly-listed leader in IoT industrial monitoring solutions. He has over 20 years of business development and strategy experience, including at Acorn Energy, Ener1, Inc., China Renaissance Partners in Beijing. He began his career at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking.
Paul Graves is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors.
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Gilberto Antoniazzi is our Chief Financial Officer, a role he also served in at Livent.
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Sara Ponessa is our General Counsel and Secretary, a position she also held at Livent.
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Alicia Markmann is our Chief Human Resources Officer, a position she also held at Livent.
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Barbara Fochtman is our Chief Operations Officer.
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Christian Cortes is our Chief Integration and Transformation Officer.
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Denis Couture is the Managing Director at our Galaxy Lithium Mine project / operation in Canada.
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J. Ignacio Costa is our General Manager of Argentina.
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Karen Vizental is our Chief Sustainability and Global Communications Officer.
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Liam Franklyn is our Head of Australian Operations.
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Neil Robertson is our Chief Projects Officer.
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Sarah Maryssael is our Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Canada.
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Walter Czarnecki is our Chief Commercial Officer.
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We safely and responsibly harness the power of lithium to improve people’s lives and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.
A sustainable world in which lithium enables exciting possibilities for renewable energy, electric transportation and modern life.
Fostering inclusive teams centered on safety, well-being, integrity and respect for colleagues.
Being a reliable, trusted company that operates responsibly, leads with excellence and delivers value.
Working together to drive progress, sustainable growth and innovation for the transition to clean energy.
While Arcadium Lithium is a newly formed company from the merger of Allkem and Livent, our company has a rich heritage of innovation and a long, proven history of producing performance lithium compounds in a safe and sustainable manner.
Worked with the U.S. government, developing useful applications for lithium.
Merger creates the largest lithium supplier in the world.
Supplied lithium for Sony’s first lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics.
To advance innovation, our battery research lab tests new chemistries and designs.
Joint venture is launched with Toyota Tsusho Corp. to develop Olaroz; later expanded to Naraha.
Our lithium facility in northern Argentina begins commercial production of high-grade lithium carbonate.
Production resumed at our Mt Cattlin mine, producing high-quality spodumene concentrate.
FMC Corporation spins-off its lithium business, creating an independent Livent.
Allkem formed from the merger of Orocobre and Galaxy Resources.
Allkem and Livent combine to create a global leader with the scale and expertise to meet the rapidly growing demand for lithium chemical products.
We are a vertically integrated lithium producer with global scale, geographic reach across a low-cost asset base and a reliable, resilient supply chain. Essential to lithium-ion batteries, lithium is crucial to the production of sustainable technologies, from electric vehicles to consumer electronics to other energy solutions. Our lithium enables the global energy transition.
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Arcadium Lithium is a leading global lithium chemicals producer committed to safely and responsibly harnessing the power of lithium to improve people’s lives and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. We drive innovation and partner with our customers to pioneer new solutions and provide high-quality finished lithium compounds. We power a more sustainable world in which lithium enables exciting possibilities for renewable energy, electric transportation and modern life. Arcadium Lithium is vertically integrated, with industry-leading capabilities across the lithium production process including hard-rock mining, conventional pond based brine extraction, direct lithium brine extraction (DLE) and lithium chemicals manufacturing.
Our company was created from the merger of equals between Livent and Allkem in January 2024. In merging the two businesses, we created a leading global, vertically integrated producer of the broadest range of lithium chemicals products to meet the world’s growing demand for portable electronics, electric cars and large-scale stationary storage facilities.
Lithium is a critical element necessary for a wide spectrum of applications. From the revolution in electric vehicle batteries and mobile devices to the strong, lightweight alloys and advanced polymers that take innovation further, we harness lithium technology to help the world move forward—cleaner, healthier and more sustainably. Lithium is the lightest metal, has high energy density and exhibits low thermal expansion. As an essential part of the transition to a low-carbon, clean-energy economy, demand for lithium will continue to grow for years to come.
We produce lithium hydroxide for the manufacture of lithium greases, dyes, resins and many specialty applications. Our products are also key to the production of polymers in a wide range of other applications that improve our lives, from fuel efficient “green” tires to stronger, more flexible adhesives and other pharmaceutical applications.
Both. We are a vertically integrated lithium chemicals producer, from source to product solution. Our value-added business model across the entire lithium operations chain enables us to better serve our customers with a more resilient supply chain and enhanced operating flexibility and efficiency. With our state-of-the-art R&D facilities, we focus on testing and understanding new ways to improve energy storage and lithium delivery.
From operations to investment, sustainability is built into everything we do. We are reimagining what’s possible to produce more of the lithium the world needs while continuing to lead the industry forward in corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship and transparency.
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