G6 Materials Announces New Senior Hires to Support Company Growth

a high-tech company with expertise in advanced materials and developing innovative composites for a wide range of industrial uses, is pleased to announce the expansion of its executive leadership and operations team to support the Company in its next phase of growth.

Elena Polyakova will be rejoining G6 as Co-Chief Executive Officer, joining Daniel Stolyarov effective immediately. She is a co-founder of G6 and the former co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, with a deep understanding of graphene and advanced materials.

Additionally, the Company has hired Scott Pelt as Financial Controller, an accomplished financial executive who will play a critical role in G6’s corporate financing transactions, business acquisitions, FP&A, and positioning for a future up-listing to a national exchange.

Finally, G6 has hired Matthew Abenante, IRC as Head of Investor Relations, a leading expert in financial communications, to deliver a robust investor relations program that supports G6’s investment thesis and expands investor outreach across investment centers throughout North America to achieve a more favorable market valuation for the Company.

“We are delighted to welcome such high-quality professionals to G6’s leadership team at this important stage of our company’s development,” commented President & Co-CEO Daniel Stolyarov. “In recent months, G6 has taken major strides in its business expansion, in large part due to Elena’s tremendous efforts. This expansion includes opening our new distribution center in Cerritos, CA, to support our specialized graphene-enhanced air purifier products and achieving a five-fold production capacity expansion at our ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility in Ronkonkoma, New York, after successfully installing our pilot-scale graphene oxide reactor. We also recently announced the relaunch of Graphene-Supermarket.com to serve our growing customer base better. These initiatives were made to capture a growing addressable market for advanced materials and graphene applications.

“With Scott and Matthew joining our team, we now have increased financial strength and capital markets support to help G6 double down on innovation and successfully commercialize smart technology at a large scale to satisfy growing market demands,” concluded Mr. Stolyarov.

Scott Pelt is an accomplished financial executive with deep experience in financial reporting and analysis, planning and budgeting, reserving, internal control, business process improvement, and project management. Previously, Mr. Van Pelt held consulting and leadership positions with Kemper Insurance Company, Kingstone Insurance Company, Choice Home Warranty, and Citibank. Mr. Van Pelt earned a Master of Business Administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.

Matthew Abenante, IRC is a leading expert in investor relations with over 15 years of experience delivering world-class financial and corporate communications services to companies across all industries and sizes. Currently, Mr. Abenante is the founder and President of Strategic Investor Relations, Inc., a boutique investor relations agency serving a portfolio of high-growth company clients. Mr. Abenante was part of the first cohort to earn the Investor Relations Charter (IRC) from the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) in 2016 and was named one of NIRI’s “Rising Leaders Under 40” in 2019. Mr. Abenante earned a Master of Science in Investor Relations at Fordham University and a Bachelor of Business Administration at the City University of New York - Baruch College.

Elena Polyakova is a well-recognized expert in graphene and advanced materials in industry and academia and a frequently invited speaker at major international conferences. As a pioneer in the commercial graphene production market, Polyakova founded Graphene Supermarket in 2010, the premier supplier within the graphene industry, serving thousands of clients worldwide, spanning the Fortune 500 and leading universities and other institutions throughout 100+ countries. She also significantly contributed to developing the Company’s IP portfolio.

Polyakova is co-founder of G6 Materials Corp. (formerly known as Graphene 3D Lab Inc.) and served as co-Chief Executive Officer from 2015-2018 and Chief Operating Officer from 2013-2018. Polyakova holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Southern California. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, she was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the structure of graphene experimentally. In 2019, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials at the National University of Singapore. Her expertise in 2D materials has been covered by prestigious news agencies such as BBC and Bloomberg. Additionally, Polyakova has co-authored papers with Nobel and Kavli prize winners and members of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to today’s hirings, G6 announces that effective immediately, Roman Rabinovich will step down as a member of its Board of Directors. As part of the announcement, the Board appointed Elena Polyakova as a director of G6 Materials Corp. G6 would like to thank Mr. Rabinovich for all that he has done for the Company and wish him all the best.

Pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option Plan adopted at the last AGM and subject to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, G6 is granting 6,900,000 options to Officers of the Company, its Directors, Employees, and Service providers. The options are exercisable at a price C$0.10 for five years. Among these options granted, 2,000,000 are subject to a 3-year vesting schedule, where 25% of the options will be granted immediately, and 25% will be granted at each anniversary.