Graham Wookey

About Graham Wookey

I am personally carbon neutral.Creating a more sustainable world drives everything I do, my purpose is to transition industries to a lower carbon future by helping scale new technologies.I have close to 10 years of experience optimizing processes and solving problems across technical and business operations. I look to understand how things work and how they can work better. I take a systems approach to understand how each challenge connects across functions to identify the best solution.

Experience

1. VP Finance, Strategy, & Operations

   Austin Elements Inc

   Jul 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Recharging the lithium-ion battery supply chain through sustainable recycling

Education

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  MBA

  2017 — 2019

• University of the Witwatersrand

  BSc Materials Science and Engineering

  2008 — 2012

• Stanford University

  MS Environment and Resources

  2017 — 2020

• Tsinghua University

  STEP Exchange Program

Skills

• Chemistry
• Mineral Processing
• Chemical Engineering
• Nickel
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Simulink
• Matlab
• Mining
• Coal
• Finite Element Analysis
• Materials Science
• Crystalmaker
• Crystaldiffract
• Metallurgy
• X-Ray Crystallography
• Materials
• Commissioning
• Engineering
• Process Optimization
• Hydrometallurgy
• Process Engineering
• Leaching
• Modsim
• Base Metals
• Mineral Exploration
• Project Engineering
• Sampling
• Electrowinning
• Minerals
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Process Control