Donald Baxter

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Mr. Donald Baxter served as Chief Executive Officer and Director at Muzhu Mining. Mr. Donald Baxter serves as Chief Executive Officer & Director at Applied Graphite Technologies. Mr. Baxter is one of the premier graphite experts outside of China, having built one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. He is presently the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Applied Graphite Technologies and has been since January 2018. Prior to this, he served as President, CEO and Executive Director of Alabama Graphite Corp., from June 2015 until December 2017, successfully the company's disruptive Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) and introducing a new, battery-focused strategy. Mr. Baxter served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Focus Graphite Inc. from September 2013 until May 2018. Mr. Baxter led Focus Graphite to wide recognition in the graphite industry, updated the company's PEA and advanced the company to a completed Feasibility Study. He was also responsible for rapidly advancing the development of value-added graphite products, namely coated spherical purified graphite for the lithium-ion battery sector. Prior to Focus Graphite Corporation Mr. Baxter served as President of Northern Graphite Corporation from February 2011 and July 2013 and was responsible for all technical aspects relating to the Bissett Creek graphite project, including the bankable feasibility study, metallurgical test work and environmental and mine permitting, as well as developing battery related graphite products. Mr. Baxter also served as Mine Superintendent at the Kearney Graphite mine when it operated in the 1990s, providing true operational experience in graphite mining and processing. He served as Director of Mining at Ontario Graphite Ltd., has worked for Inco and Noranda Minerals, as well as on numerous consulting projects for the base and precious metals Mr. Baxter holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen's University, is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Advanced Technology Batteries International (NAATBatt International) - a US-based not-for-profit trade association commercializing advanced electrochemical energy-storage technology for emerging, high-tech applications - and is a 'Qualified Person' as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) guidelines. On June 2, 2021, Ceylon Graphite Corp. announced that Donald Baxter, P.Eng. will step up from their current role as Director to assume the Chief Executive role.