South Star Battery Metals Enhances Board and Executive Management Team

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 21, 2023 / South Star Battery Metals Corp. ("South Star" or the "Company") (TSXV:STS)(OTCQB:STSBF), is pleased to announce that Roger Mortimer, an experienced capital-markets executive and global climate/energy-transition fund manager, has joined the board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the Company. In addition, Ty Dinwoodie, a graphite-industry veteran, senior corporate advisor and specialist in Li-ion battery materials, has joined the executive team as a senior technical/commercial advisor.

Richard Pearce, CEO of South Star, said, "We are excited to welcome Roger and Ty to our team, and I look forward to working closely with both as we scale our operations and ramp up our production in quality graphite concentrates as well as midstream and downstream products. Roger brings a wealth of capital markets experience and extensive industry relationships as a global climate/energy transition fund manager and CIO for over 20 years. He will strengthen our board and play a key role in helping us increase our presence and investor awareness in the United States and globally."

Mr. Mortimer has a BA in Economics and MBA degrees from the Western University. He has managed public equities globally for more than 20 years and has considerable experience in resource sectors, including energy and mining. He has held oversight positions as a Senior Vice President at both Aim Funds (now Invesco) and at CI Funds, and was a portfolio manager and partner at Capital Group Companies. He has won multiple awards as a portfolio manager brings extensive capital markets experience as an investor, issuer and banker.

For more than a decade, Mr. Dinwoodie has specialized in Li-ion battery-ready graphite materials with specific expertise in active battery-ready anode products, and the associated downstream transformational technologies and processes. He has served as an executive officer and senior strategic advisor for several private and public technology, advanced-materials, and mining and exploration companies in North America, Europe, and Australia, including governments, US Department of Defense contractors, universities, institutional investors, and leading multinational corporations. While Mr. Dinwoodie's work encompasses the global Li-ion battery-supply chains, he is most passionate about battery-grade graphite with a particular focus on North American security of supply and downstream transformational commercial capacity. Mr. Dinwoodie studied economics at McMaster University and physics at Laurentian University.