# Dr Ebrahim Alizadeh SVP – Technical Services and R&D ## Career chronology - **Current at 31 October 2026; appointment date not disclosed: Advanced Engineered Materials Limited** — SVP, Technical Services and R&D. [Management \| Ebrahim Alizadeh]() (biography); [Investor Presentation Roadshow September 2026]() (slide 23, senior management team) - **More than nine years across Orbite and later AEM; exact employer periods and roles not disclosed: Technologies Orbite; Advanced Engineered Materials** — High-purity alumina production and technical work. [Management \| Ebrahim Alizadeh]() (biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Doctoral qualification reported; institution and field are not specified on AEM’s page [ebrahim-alizadeh-education] Education; biography current at cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality AEM identifies Alizadeh as holding a PhD, but the reviewed profile does not name the field, institution or award date. No independent credential verification was located. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The qualification is issuer-reported and lacks enough detail for independent verification. **Relevance:** Relevant to the R&D role but its specific technical focus is not established by the profile. [Management \| Ebrahim Alizadeh]() (biography) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### AEM’s technical expansion is progressing while the commercial ramp remains early [ebrahim-alizadeh-aem-h1] 2026 half-year and September 2026 guidance · issuer reported · low materiality AEM’s interim report says the plant completed modifications for ultra-low-alpha HPA and continued work on a 1,000 tpa circuit; first-half sales were 12.5 tonnes for A$459,518. The September presentation sets a 40–60 tonne H2 sales forecast. These are company outcomes and forward guidance; no source assigns the commercial result to Alizadeh. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Alizadeh holds the technical-services/R&D role during the reported technical work; the filing does not attribute the outcome to him. **Relevance:** Relevant to R&D and technology scale-up; actual production and qualified customer sales remain distinct from modification completion. [Advanced Engineered Materials Limited Interim Report for the Half Year 2026]() (directors’ report, pp.4–5); [Investor Presentation Roadshow September 2026]() (slides 4 and 23) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Orbite’s former Cap-Chat business entered insolvency before AEM acquired its assets [ebrahim-alizadeh-orbite] 2017 predecessor insolvency; AEM asset purchase in 2020 · documented · low materiality Orbite sought insolvency protection after a machinery breakdown at Cap-Chat, according to its legal adviser; regional reporting says operations were suspended in April 2017 and AEM acquired the assets in 2020. AEM’s biography says Alizadeh worked on HPA at Orbite and later AEM but gives no dates or connection to the breakdown or financial failure. No personal responsibility is established. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. The financial failure was Orbite’s; the sources provide no evidence tying Alizadeh to its finances or insolvency. **Relevance:** Relevant as technical project history, but not adverse personal evidence. [Les neuf vies de l’usine d’alumine de Cap-Chat]() (paragraphs 48–64); [Management \| Ebrahim Alizadeh]() (biography); [Fasken acts for Orbite Technologies in CCAA proceeding]() (overview, insolvency and machinery breakdown) ## Suitability for the current role ### Long HPA technical experience is relevant; the breakdown of work and outcomes is unavailable [ebrahim-alizadeh-role-fit] Current role at 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality Analyst inference: AEM reports more than 15 years in engineering/R&D and more than nine years in HPA production with Orbite and later AEM. An October 2026 investor-update transcript quotes the CEO as saying Alizadeh developed the technology AEM uses. The company biography and transcript do not provide dates, patents, independent technical-performance metrics or a personal attribution for commercial results. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The fit inference draws on issuer biography and CEO remarks; technical contribution is not independently validated here. **Relevance:** Relevant to process performance, product purity and expansion of HPA product grades. [Management \| Ebrahim Alizadeh]() (biography); [AEM investor update transcript, 1 October 2026]() (CEO remarks on technical leadership) ## Evidence gaps - The Orbite and AEM tenure split, technical responsibilities, named patents and independent process-performance results are not available in the reviewed public profile. - The cited CEO comment is a third-party transcript rather than an official transcript or filing. - No independent doctoral credential source was located. - Open-web searches documented here are not an exhaustive court, regulator, sanctions, criminal-record, reference or credential check.