OREMAVEN
XMM 7,722.00 -2.63% YTD +5.6% OM ASX 450.55 -2.56% YTD +0.1% OM PRECIOUS 349.20 -2.24% YTD +2.5% OM EX-PREC 418.91 -2.72% YTD -1.1% XAU 4,115.59 +2.31% YTD -4.9% GLD 375.49 +0.81% YTD -5.2% GDX 85.75 +1.37% YTD -0.0% SIL 77.33 -1.00% YTD -7.3% COPX 70.23 -5.81% YTD -1.8% URNM 40.07 -2.79% YTD -27.0%
2026-11-06

← NIC management

Full background report

Simon Miller

General Manager Battery Materials

Career chronology

  • From 2024-10-14: Nickel Industries — General Manager Battery Materials. 2025 Annual Report (management biography and governance)

  • Prior to joining Nickel Industries in October 2024: Northvolt — Senior Director, Raw Materials. September 2024 quarterly report (p. 17 appointment biography)

Personal achievements

Reported career and role

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 (pp. 15–18 director and management biographies); Board and Management (Simon Miller profile); Nickel Industries H1 results call transcript (26 August 2026 Q&A, Werner on battery materials)

Business failures and setbacks

Previous employer Northvolt later entered bankruptcy

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 (p. 17 appointment biography); 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.