American Resources Corporation announced that its majority-owned ReElement Technologies LLC division (ReElement) has promoted Jeff Peterson to Chief Operating Officer and expanded the ReElement team with the appointments of Dr. Yi Ding as Director of Research & Development and Chris Moorman as Chief Commercial Officer. Jeff Peterson - Chief Operating Officer: Jeff brings nearly 20 years of experience including operations, engineering, sales, and product development to ReElement Technologies LLC. He began his career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Navy serving onboard nuclear-powered submarines.

After resigning his Commission, Jeff joined Westinghouse Electric Company where he served as part of the engineering and licensing team in the design and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licensing of a first-of-its-kind Generation III+ pressurized water reactor for commercial electricity generation. Jeff then joined Cyient where he was rapidly promoted to sales, strategy, and product development leadership roles. He most recently worked with Hitachi Vantara as part of the North American sales team, selling digital transformation initiatives into key industrial markets.

Jeff is a graduate of Purdue University and has his Master of Business Administration from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Yi Ding - Director of Research & Development: Dr. Yi Ding received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2016 and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021. Before joining ReElement, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University.

His research focused on multi-dimensional, multi-mode chromatography for the separation and purification of critical materials including authoring and co-authoring 9 journal publications as well as serving as co-inventor for 3 provisional patent applications. Yi is also the recipient of the 2021 American Institute of Chemical Engineering Separation Division Graduate Student Research Award. Through his research and development efforts, Yi has set out to prove the clean and efficient chromatography processes for critical materials purification can provide the driving force for a sustainable and circular economy.

Chris Moorman - Chief Commercial Officer: Chris Moorman brings a wide range of experience to his role as Chief Commercialization Officer. Since learning risk management as a commodity options market maker on the floor of the NYMEX, Chris has founded and exited several companies in a variety of industries from data center development to consumer package goods to artificial intelligence platform design. His experience in new market development will be critical in the formation of the domestic circular supply chain for the electrification economy.

He is a graduate of Purdue University and serves on the boards of Fishing's Future, a national leader in Angler Education, and the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.