Ernie Ortiz

Ernie has been President and Managing Director of Lithium Royalty Corp (LRC) a private lithium investment company since 2018. Prior to joining LRC he was an investment analyst at a US based equity fund where he specialized in lithium, battery materials and specialty chemicals. As a top shareholder of some of the leading materials companies he has developed extensive industry contacts, market knowledge, and modeling experience. He was previously at Credit Suisse where he was the lead associate in the Basic Materials group based in New York. In that role, he led the research and due diligence on lithium, which called for the imbalance between supply and demand the market faced in 2016/2017.

Ernie sits on the London Metal Exchange (LME) Lithium Advisory Committee and has been quoted in Reuters and the Wall Street Journal for comments on the lithium market. Ernie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds the CFA designation.