Voltaic Strategic Resources Limited announced the appointment of Mr. David Izzard to the Board as a non-executive director. Mr. Izzard is a highly experienced executive and non-executive Director with extensive skills in all aspects of financial and commercial management at a senior level, in both listed and unlisted companies. A qualified Chartered Accountant, MBA and Mineral Economist, David has founded several companies and has been instrumental in the formulation of joint ventures, distribution agreements and steering companies through successful capital raising, IPOs and trade sale.

The Company is pleased to welcome Michael Walshe to the role of Chief Executive Officer and Claudio Sheriff as Voltaic's Exploration Manager. Michael has over 15 years of international experience in engineering, operations, technology commercialisation, and project development roles across the minerals, chemicals, and renewable energy sectors. Michael joins Voltaic after a 10 year career at Metso:Outotec where positions included Director and Vice President roles for the Asia Pacific Minerals business, in addition to being a member of the executive management team.

His experience covers team leadership, metallurgy, process design, sales, and structuring project finance packages for junior miners via export credit funding. Michael has advised on several international mineral development projects with particular exposure to Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, PNG and South Korea, and has worked across a wide range of commodities including lithium, rare earths, nickel, copper, zinc and gold. Michael holds a Bachelor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Hons.) from University College Dublin, Ireland, and a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from the Australian Institute of Business.

He is a chartered engineer with both Engineers Australia & the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (AusIMM). Claudio is a highly experienced geologist with a track record of discoveries including Asra Minerals' Yttria REE and Critical Minerals deposit and was involved in Northern Minerals' (ASX:NTU) Browns Range Wolverine HREEs discovery. His expertise of mineralised systems throughout Australia, Indonesia and Chile covers target generation and systematic ranking, exploration and discovery through to resource drill-out, across a wide range of deposit types including REE and critical minerals, high-grade narrow vein Au, epithermal Au, structural Cu-Au, base metals, VMS, BHT, and IOCG/ISCG.