Arak Resources Ltd. announced the resignation of Benjamin Hill as a director, and the appointment of Dr. Jonathan Hykawy as his replacement. Dr. Hykawy was trained as an experimental physicist and worked at some of the laboratories in North America, including the Chalk River Laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited as well as the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Hykawy has been an equities analyst on Bay Street since 2000, covering technologies such as batteries and fuel cells, and the critical materials used to manufacture these technologies, including lithium, cobalt and the rare earths. The company intends to employ the net proceeds of its recently completed private placement, with the assistance of Dr. Hykawy, to investigate new opportunities in the battery metals sector.