Brandon Swanepoel

Brandon is responsible for directing Avertana’s lab and pilot-scale R&D, as well as project management of commercial deployments of the company’s technology.

Brandon previously worked at Cristal Global, then the world’s second-largest titanium pigment producer. As a Business Development and Project Manager of their Growth Programs, he managed the delivery of titanium ore smelting and metal production projects in Saudi Arabia. Before this, he worked for 14 years with global resources major Rio Tinto, predominantly managing large, complex capital projects in East Asia, South Africa, North America and Western Australia.