Peter Deneen is a director of EV-Metals Resources, a consulting & investment advisory group based in Hong Kong, focusing on upstream supply of nickel, cobalt, and other raw materials used in making electric vehicle batteries and energy storage devices.

Prior to founding EV-Metals in October 2017, Peter was Senior Vice President responsible for base metals trading and supported overseas asset acquisition at Jinchuan Group International Resources Co. Ltd, a HK-listed subsidiary of China’s Jinchuan Group. In addition to establishing copper, cobalt, nickel and zinc trading, Peter also served on the board of Metorex Limited, an African mining company (owned by Jinchuan Group) with operating copper and cobalt mines in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Peter has worked in and around the metals industry of China for nearly 30 years, formerly based in Beijing as Chief Representative of Cometals, a division of Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC), where he supported large-scale purchases and sales of alumina, acid grade fluorspar, refractory bauxite, magnesite, flake graphite, rare earth oxides, and a host of other industrial minerals. He later headed up Samsung America’s global alumina trading team, a major supplier to the Chinese aluminium industry. At that time, Samsung played an instrumental role in the reopening of the Birac Alumina Refinery based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2006, Peter joined the board at Erdmin, Mongolia’s sole SX-W refined copper and wire rod producer and was responsible for sales of copper cathode to China, South Korea and Taiwan consumers.

Peter holds a master’s degree in international management (M.I.M.) from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix, and an undergraduate degree in China Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst MA. Peter speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.