# Simon Miller

General Manager Battery Materials

## Career chronology

- **From 2024-10-14: Nickel Industries** — General Manager Battery Materials. [2025 Annual Report](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260424/pdf/06ytpyf3cfjq10.pdf>) (management biography and governance)

- **Prior to joining Nickel Industries in October 2024: Northvolt** — Senior Director, Raw Materials. [September 2024 quarterly report](<https://nickelindustries.com/carbon/assets/0007e8/00000a/2802310.pdf>) (p. 17 appointment biography)

## Personal achievements

### Reported career and role [simon-miller_background]

Career and current role · issuer reported · low materiality

Nickel’s 2024 quarterly identifies Miller as previously head of Northvolt raw materials and describes earlier purchasing and project roles at Boliden.

**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The issuer describes the role and background; independent verification is limited.

**Relevance:** Relevant to the person’s present remit.

[2025 Annual Report](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20260424/pdf/06ytpyf3cfjq10.pdf>) (pp. 15–18 director and management biographies); [Board and Management](<https://nickelindustries.com/about-us/board-management/>) (Simon Miller profile); [Nickel Industries H1 results call transcript](<https://earningscalls.dev/transcripts/nickel-industries-limited_nic_earnings_call_transcript_2026-08-26>) (26 August 2026 Q&amp;A, Werner on battery materials)

## Business failures and setbacks

### Previous employer Northvolt later entered bankruptcy [simon-miller_northvolt]

2024–2025 · documented · medium materiality

Nickel identified Miller as Northvolt’s former raw-materials senior director in October 2024. Northvolt filed for Swedish bankruptcy in March 2025 after financing and production-ramp difficulties.

**Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. Nickel’s appointment disclosure establishes his prior position, not his role at bankruptcy or personal causation.

**Relevance:** A material former-employer outcome relevant to the battery-materials track record.

[September 2024 quarterly report](<https://nickelindustries.com/carbon/assets/0007e8/00000a/2802310.pdf>) (p. 17 appointment biography); [Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden](<https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-files-for-bankruptcy-in-sweden/>) (12 March 2025 statement)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent confirmation of credentials and complete employment dates remains incomplete.

- Targeted open-web searches are limited; original court, regulator, prior-employer and Indonesian-language records were not exhaustively obtained.

- The issuer leadership page is undated; exact role continuity at the evidence cutoff is not independently confirmed.

- Exact Northvolt departure date and any personal contribution to its eventual insolvency were not independently established.