Ken Hoffman, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Chester, New Jersey, United States

Novi, Mi, Us

Serve on the Board of Advisors to the Battery Show for the 2022 calendar year

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Help clients on their strategic thinking on global advanced battery technologies, from the mine, recycling to the battery technology itself for uses in EV's, ESS, and other battery applications.Executive Director on projects that help upstream battery raw material companies build a strategy to enter the battery value stream. Understanding how to align with offtake partners, understanding how battery technologies may evolve to position your metals for the right parts of the battery growth curve.More than 100 DD's on battery supply chain companies.Led work on how to pick "winners and losers" in the battery race, building AI enabled models to show which technologies are more likely to succeed than others.

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Client Development Executive for MineLens / MineSpans and the Basic Materials Practice

New York, Ny, Us

Global Head of Bloomberg Metals & Mining Research Product (Bloomberg Intelligence)Global Head of Bloomberg Metals & Mining Research (BI)-- I work with key leaders of the industry in Board/C-Suite, Investment Banking, Research, Corporate Strategy, senior Government officials, and Private Equity in better understanding and analyzing trends. Our proprietary research is read by thousands every day and our reports on trends in Mining M&A and in depth coverage of Chinese metals markets and their impacts on the global prices for various metals received acclaim.

A $350 million European Small Cap Special Situations Fund. Partner * Fund ranked #1 in its sector for the 5 years ending 2008. * Small Cap fund focused on companies with market cap's between $50 million-$1.5 billion * Fund held between 15-25 long positions * Ran staff of between 3-5 analysts covering Pan European markets. * Averaged meeting over 350 European companies annually to understand markets and have a more complete understanding of European markets. Was Co-PM of the internal Global Fund, which was an internal fund, which showed strong Alpha Guided several boards to guide and direct restructuring efforts and strategies. * Recognized as one of the most well-known and requested industry guest speakers, including value investing seminars at Deutsche Börse and the CFO Summit in Vienna. * Lead Analyst for due diligence and valuation analysis on the sale of Pergo AB (wood flooring) to Pflederer AG of Germany to facilitate and negotiate the sale of the company, where MarCap was a 29.9% shareholder in Pergo. * Wrote and presented a complete restructuring and asset sales presentation to the Board of Bong Ljungdahl (a leading Pan European producer of paper and envelopes), resulting in MarCap's 20% shareholder investment. * Represented the company on the Nominating Committee of Scribona AB. * Completed the valuation and analysis on the sale of Klippan AB, a Swedish paper producer. Was part of the team which made dozens of investor presentations to family offices, trusts, wealthy individuals, and investment firms.

New York, Ny, Us

PM of LS Energy/commodity fund--Approx $100 million

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Headed Industrial and Commodity research for fund headed by Ken Brokovich, and left at the end of the year when Ken left to pursue a new position at another firm in Maryland. I was paid as a consultant and decided not to join the firm as a full-time employee.

Headed an eight person staff covering all industries both domestic and global equities. * Helped raise $200 million in capital. * Ran research for a fund that returned over 40% above its benchmark. * Focused on small cap names. * Researched coverage for approximately 150 companies in the energy (energy service, E&P, major intergrateds), paper, chemical, steel, and gold industries. * For three-year period, ending July 2002, was rated top quartile fund in the energy/commodity sector by Morningstar. * Ranked top 10% energy and commodity fund for 2002 and top 25% for one and three years as ranked by Bloomberg. * Morningstar ranking rise from one star to four stars in 33 months fund was managed. CONSULTANT, To The Steel Industry * Hired by the AISI (steel group) for consulting reports. * Hired by Metals USA for corporate restructuring project. * Hired by the Finnish Group, Rautaruukki, to give a long-term strategy assessment.

I was involved in strategic change at the Board level of Metals USA, Rautarikki of Finland, and the American Steel Processing Institute among others.

* Awarded a top-tier analyst ranking by the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Institutional Investor. * Ranked by Wall Street Journal "best stock pickers" for six of seven years. * Given an "Award of Special Merit for Outstanding Research in the Steel Industry" by the American Iron and Steel Institute. * Gave keynote speech to one of the most prestigious annual steel events, AWMI black-tie event to over 1,000 executives. * Worked on over a dozen global steel industry banking and consulting deals, worth in total over $2 billion. * Co-led on Penoles, Grupo Mexico $200 million debt/equity offering, Shiloh Industries $75 million secondary, Reliance Steel & Aluminum $120 million offering, Nova America $100 million secondary. * Worked with Worthington Industries on several separate offerings and hired by Worthington Industries on divestiture of rail-car manufacturing group. * Gave consulting advice

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