Viridis has added Jose Carlos Guedes Rosado to the Viridis Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr. Jose Carlos Guedes Rosado joins the company and strengthens the board. With over 30 years' experience, Mr. Guedes is a world leader in the rare earth processing industry having held senior executive positions at Serra Verde Mineracao and Lynas Corporation from conceptual engineering, through project delivery and into operations.

Serre Verde represents the only Ionic Adsorption Clay project currently in production outside of South Asia and China, and is producing a mineral concentrate containing high value Rare Earth Elements, including Nd and Pr (Light Rare Earths) and Dy and Tb (Heavy Rare Earths). Mr. Guedes held the position of COO from 2016 to 2019. Lynas has one of the world's premier rare earth deposits, Mt Weld in Western Australia, and operates the world's largest single rare earths processing plant in Malaysia where it produces high-quality separated rare earth materials.

Mr. Guedes held the position of Vice President Industrial from 2010 to 2014 where he successfully delivered and commenced operating the facilities in Malaysia. Mr. Guedes will join the Viridis Board at a critical juncture as it accelerates its Colossus work program and ticks off major milestones along is development pathway from explorer to producer. Based in Brazil, Mr. Guedes has a vast understanding of the supply chain and regulatory landscape Right team to Fast Track the Colossus Project Mr. Guedes is a chemical engineer with extensive and global executive experience in rare earth project delivery, supply chain and production.

Until recently, he worked as Chief Operating Officer at Serra Verde, having taken the asset through development stages which is now the only operational Ionic Adsorption Clay Rare Earth Elements production facility outside of South Asia and China, based in the State of Goias, Brazil. Prior to this he was worked as Vice President of Projects at Lynas, where he led the project, construction, and startup of the Rare Earths Concentration plant in Western Australia and the Cracking and Separation Plant in Kuantan, Malaysia. Additionally, he was accountable for the strategic Supply Chain and for the Engineering and Process improvement teams as well as the implementation of Operational Excellence KPIs, EHS and Quality Systems. As a seasoned professional in project development and evaluation, Mr. Guedes has been working and supporting several junior mining rare earth and critical mineral companies as an independent advisor, with a focus on development planning.