LAC North America Ready to Acquire Frontier LithiumHighlights of most recent LAC News Release indicate that LAC has brought-in a CFO "seasoned" in Buyouts and it would appear that the LAC Lithium North America company is moving ahead with a readiness strategy to acquire prized Lithium assets in North America primed and ready for "Construction" operations development with Frontier Lithium likely on the very, very "short list" of initial Buyouts currently in the pre-production stage of developing 4 (four) high grade Lithium discoveries with a total known Lithium resource exceeding 60-Million tons located in mining progressive and known world class Canadian mining region (Red Lake, home of the Newmont-Goldcorp, Kinross gold operations just to name a few).
LAC North America CFO Buyout Highlights are the following: - Pablo Mercado as executive vice-president and chief financial officer (CFO) to succeed Mr. Epshtein as CFO of Lithium Americas.
- Upon completion of the planned separation of the company's Argentine and North American businesses into two independent public companies, Mr. Mercado would become CFO of the North American business. Mr. Epshtein will continue to work with Lithium Americas as an adviser supporting the separation and the financial reporting needs of both businesses.
- Pablo is a seasoned CFO who brings a wealth of experience in strategy, M&A [merger and acquisition] and capital markets."
Mr. Jonathan Evans reports
LITHIUM AMERICAS ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
...........the company has appointed Pablo Mercado as executive vice-president and chief financial officer (CFO) to succeed Mr. Epshtein as CFO of Lithium Americas.
Upon completion of the planned separation of the company's Argentine and North American businesses into two independent public companies, Mr. Mercado would become CFO of the North American business. Mr. Epshtein will continue to work with Lithium Americas as an adviser supporting the separation and the financial reporting needs of both businesses.
"Eduard has been the CFO of Lithium Americas since 2007, and has made significant contributions to the success of our business," said George Ireland, chairman. "On behalf of the company, I would like to thank Eduard for his contributions and wish him every success in his retirement. Eduard is leaving a business that is in a strong financial position and well on track to deliver on our long-term vision. We welcome Pablo to the Lithium Americas team."
"I am excited to announce Pablo's appointment as Lithium Americas' new CFO," said Jonathan Evans, president and chief executive officer of Lithium Americas. "Pablo is a seasoned CFO who brings a wealth of experience in strategy, M&A [merger and acquisition] and capital markets."
Mr. Mercado has over 23 years of experience in finance and corporate development in the energy industry................., etc., etc.