About Us

Our Concept

Beginning with NMC 811 Battery chemistry, AES aspires to manufacture Cathode Active Materials for all battery chemistries in Western Australia by sourcing battery chemicals from Australian resource companies and powering up the AES facilities with green energy. Valued added Cathode active materials will be exported to cell manufacturers globally.

Green And Ethical

All AES input materials will be supplied from ethical sources.

Power will be sourced from green power suppliers.

All Emissions will be absolutely minimised to meet the demands of our society and future generations.

Our History

Australian Energy Storage solutions (AES) was founded in 2016 and operated as a subsidiary of Access Petrotec Pty Ltd.

In 2020, the AES business was setup as a separate Australian entity.

Our Team

Mike served as the Treasurer; Minister for Energy; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests (2014-2017) for the WA Government and Minister for Energy; Finance; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests (2013-2014).

Mike has a strong understanding of the energy sector in WA, strong relationships with the Government at a State and Federal level and strong relationships with key stakeholders for a manufacturing facility in WA.

MIKE NAHAN

Chairman of the Board

Justin has developed a thorough knowledge of the global innovation marketplace during his 25 year executive career; having most recently returned to Perth, Australia after 4 years based in San Francisco, USA.

Justin has successfully founded and managed the aggressive and profitable growth of technology, manufacturing and service related companies, including strategic acquisitions, capital raisings, onshore/offshore manufacture, significant staff growth and multi-million dollar sales deals involving both direct & channel sales models.
Justin is currently the CEO of Nuheara which is an ASX listed hearing device manufacturer

JUSTIN MILLER

Board Adviser

Scott is an experienced professional across a broad range of commodities from geometallurgical interpretation through project design, construction, commissioning, and optimization.

He has expertise in strategic business planning, business development, investment evaluation and the commercial supply of industrial chemicals that feed in to the mining and agricultural sectors as well as metals marketing and sales of intermediate products.

SCOTT PERRY

Technical Director

Over 25 years of experience in several leadership roles in the resources industry in Asia, UK, Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand comprising of Business strategy and execution, capital raise and corporate finance, engineering solutions delivery, management, and negotiation of alliances and contracts, project and engineering management of resource projects and expert advice in rotating machinery viz pump, compressors and turbines

Peeyush is currently the Managing Director of Access Petrotec, a mining services company focused on the oil and gas and mining sectors.

PEEYUSH MATHUR

Managing Director & Founder

Rajan has worked with government utilities and private sector proponents developing renewable energy strategies and financing large-scale renewable energy projects for all technologies including solar, wind, biomass, and waste to energy. His O&G experience includes complex in-house oil and gas investment/commercial analysis. 

His unique background affords a broad range of advisory capabilities, including project finance, public-private partnerships, asset divestments, government advisory, M&A, equity capital markets and principal investments having worked at Macquarie, Woodside, Synergy.

RAJ AGGARWAL

Acting CEO

Over thirty years’ consulting and management experience in the Oil & Gas industry.

He has an extensive background in concept and feasibility study management. He is Managing Director of BE&R Consulting, an independent consultancy focused on the provision of technical, commercial and strategic studies relating to the Energy Transition and Small-Scale LNG markets.

He is passionate about enabling the energy industry to transition to a low carbon environment.

HUGH REYNOLDS

Non-Executive Director

Vinod is the co-founder of Australian Energy Storage Solutions (AES) and plays an important role as Director (Technical), focussing on Lithium Battery based product development and innovative solutions for various industrial applications.

Vinod holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU India and has over 30 years of professional experience across a wide range of engineering projects in the energy and resource sectors in India, Australia, South Korea and the US.

VINOD GUPTA

Technical Director