Australian Vanadium Limited announced that it has appointed Graham Arvidson as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Company. Graham will work alongside Managing Director Vincent Algar and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Todd Richardson to progress the Australian Vanadium Project through the final stages of development and into production. Mr. Arvidson brings additional business leadership skills, project development and vanadium acumen to AVL, further strengthening AVL's industry leading team.

His appointment is an important step in enabling AVL's vision of developing and operating the Australian Vanadium Project and becoming a world leader in the vanadium market. Mr. Arvidson brings proven project development expertise, a deep Western Australian project development network specific to mining, commercial acumen borne of managing contracts from both the client and contractor side and extensive project management experience in tendering, negotiation, conforming and managing O&M, EPC, EPCM, EPC-O, and BOO forms of project delivery. Graham is a passionate industry advocate for best practice in project development and operations and supports these causes through frequent guest lecturing at industry bodies and at the University of Western Australia, speaking as an industry practitioner on the topics of best practice in Project Management, Operational Excellence and the evolving lithium sector.

During the past four years, through his executive role at Primero Group, Graham has led lithium operations to achieve excellence in production, safety and quality, while providing industry leading project development and due diligence services to clients across the Australian and North American lithium sectors for clients including Pilbara Minerals, Tianqi Lithium, Altura Mining, Alita Resources, Galaxy Resources and Core Lithium. This deep understanding of what it takes to rapidly develop and successfully operate new mines in an emerging sector like lithium, coupled with his upstream and downstream operational experience in vanadium, gives Graham unique insights to leverage opportunities and avoid pitfalls in the vanadium sector as it evolves to meet the changing needs of industry.