Dr Christian Marston

Dr Christian Marston is COO and co-founder of UK-based clean technology group Altilium.

Christian previously spent 13 years at global trading and investment company Sumitomo Corporation, where he managed several businesses units, including energy products trading. He has been based in Singapore and was responsible for energy trading in APAC for several commodity traders.

Christian has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and completed his post-doctoral research at the University of Southern California. He has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

In 2018-2019 he was part-time researcher in the Battery Group at the University of Exeter’s Renewable Energy Centre, focused on processes for battery recycling.

Altilium’s business is focused on building a sustainable domestic supply chain of low carbon battery raw materials from recycling existing waste streams, including old EV batteries and production scrap.

The company’s proprietary EcoCathode™ process has been independently validated and proven in a scaled-up pilot operation, recovering over 95% of cathode metals, and resulting in up to 74% lower greenhouse gas emissions compared to the use of virgin materials in battery cathode production, and 20% lower costs.