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Mark has over 20 years’ experience in research and development, technical support, project management and consulting in metal production industries. His background includes a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering and time spent working in an aluminium smelter and an electric arc furnace steel mill. He became the Director of the Light Metals Research Centre at the University of Auckland, a commercially focussed consulting, training and R&D provider to the aluminium smelting industry. After LMRC, Mark was the founding CEO of EnPot Limited, the commercialisation company bringing energy modulation enabling technology for aluminium smelters to the market. He is now an independent consultant on energy efficiency & flexibility and decarbonisation across aluminium smelting and other energy intensive heavy industries.