Lithium Americas Corp. announced new appointments to the senior management team following the recently announced strategic transaction with Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium Co. Ltd. to jointly advance the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project in Jujuy, Argentina, in addition to the Company’s continuing development of the 100%-owned Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada, USA (“Thacker Pass”).Mr. Jonathan (Jon) Evans has agreed to join the Company as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective September 1, 2018. In addition to having served as an officer in the U.S. Army, Jon brings over 20 years of executive operations experience, including management positions with General Electric in the US and Europe, and executive roles at a number of major industrial companies owned by private equity firms. From 2008 to 2013, Jon was the General Manager in charge of the Lithium Division at FMC Corp. With Jon’s appointment as President, John Kanellitsas will become Executive Vice Chairman of the Company, in which capacity he will chair the Company’s Management Committee, be primarily responsible for managing the Company’s recently announced collaboration efforts with Ganfeng Lithium, and continue to work on developing long-term financing plans for Thacker Pass. Lithium Americas also announced the appointments of Rene LeBlanc as Chief Technical Officer and Alec Meikle as Vice President, Corporate Development. Rene joined Lithium Americas in 2017 as a Senior Processing Development Manager responsible for developing and testing the process flowsheet for Thacker Pass and, more recently, has been involved in the technical development of Cauchari-Olaroz. Prior to joining the Company, Rene worked for over 10 years in process engineering at both FMC Corp. and Tesla Inc. Alec joined the Company in 2016 and has played a key role in the Company’s successful efforts in securing over $350 million of debt and equity capital, and structuring the Company’s recently announced transaction with Ganfeng Lithium. Prior to joining Lithium Americas, Alec was a research analyst covering the lithium market with 10 years’ experience in finance and capital markets.