Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ:ELBM) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 17, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Corporate Participants

Heather Smiles - Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development
Trent Mell - Chief Executive Officer
Mark Trevisiol - Vice President, Project Development
David Allen - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Electra Year-End 2023 Results Conference Call.

As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference over to Heather Smiles, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development with Electra Battery Materials Corporation. Please go ahead.

Heather Smiles

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Firstly, a few housekeeping matters.

This presentation includes forward-looking information and forward-looking statements. Please see slide two for clarification on what that entails. All of our fourth quarter disclosure materials are available on our website and SEDAR+, and today's presentation is also available on our website.

For those who don't know me, my name is Heather Smiles, and I oversee the Investor Relations and Corporate Development programs for Electra. I rejoined the Electra team in January of this year, and I previously worked for Electra from 2017 to 2019 and spent the last several years with Baffinland Iron Mines here in Canada leading their stakeholder relations program.

Our presenters today are two familiar faces, our CEO, Trent Mell, and our Vice President, Project Development, Mark Trevisiol, as well as another new member of the team, our CFO, David Allen.

Dave joined Electra at the New Year as well and has more than 30 years of finance experience spanning manufacturing, natural resources, shipping, real estate, and financial services industries. He's held CFO and senior finance roles with companies such as Algoma and Canada Goose.

Now I'll turn it over to Trent.

Trent Mell

Thank you, Heather, and good morning, everybody, and I should say, I guess, Heather, welcome back to the team, and Dave, welcome to the team. It's nice. It's been really enjoyable working with the two of you over the last few months.

So, I'll start with some highlights on what we've been doing through 2024 before handing the baton over to Dave and then Mark. Summary of some of our activities. 2023, towards the beginning of the year, you'll recall we focused on the rebaseline exercise, so that was basically to do a reassessment to post-inflation of what the completion schedule and capital costs would look like to complete the refinery.