Talga Resources Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Michael Lew as Business Development Manager, North America. The appointment is in response to Talga's initial engagements with North American end users with interest in graphite and graphene supply for high growth energy sector applications, particularly mobile and stationary batteries. Mr. Lew was formerly an `Advanced Materials Applications' equity research analyst focused on cleaner energy.

His sector of coverage included companies participating in the emerging electric vehicle space such as Tesla Motors, Johnson Controls and Maxwell Technologies and also included high performance material suppliers such as Hexcel, Polypore (acquired by Asahi Kasei) and Zoltek (acquired by Toray Industries). Prior to Wall Street, Mr. Lew was an engineer at IBM in various capacities that included product development and global finance, following his education that includes degrees in both material science and chemical engineering. In addition, Mr. Lew is an officer with NAATBatt International.