Li-FT Power Ltd. announced that David Smithson has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Geology and Carl Verley has been appointed as Vice President, Exploration, effective January 23, 2023. Mr. Smithson is an ore deposit geologist with 20 years of experience. Smithson worked as a global specialist for Newmont where he contributed to gold-ounce reserve expansions in West Africa and South America.

Mr. Smithson has held senior VP exploration positions in a group of Canadian Junior explorers generating opportunities throughout the Americas, and most recently is the co-founder of Tier One Silver, a silver-focused explorer in Peru. Mr. Smithson holds an M.Sc in Economic Geology from University of British Columbia. Mr. Verley has had extensive exploration experience dealing with a broad range of environments, deposit types and variety of commodities in various parts of the world.

More recently, he was involved with the initial work that took the Bacanora lithium project in Sonora Mexico from maiden resource estimate through to preliminary economic assessment. Carl is one of the founders and served on the board of directors of Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. and currently is on the Board of Norse Gold Corp. Carl is a graduate of the University of B.C. (B.Sc., 1974) and is a Registered Professional Geoscientist in B.C and the NWT & Nunavut.