{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders","title":"Ajay Kochhar, President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Li-Cycle – Powering the Future: Leading the charge in sustainability through revolutionary lithium-ion recycling","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1669,"description":"Lithium-ion batteries are playing a big part in clean energy development, but making the battery itself clean and efficient will be crucial for the future of this technology. Today's guest is right at the center of making that happen.\n We're sitting down with Ajay Kochhar, who is President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Li-Cycle, a leading global lithium-ion battery resource recovery company that trades under the symbol LICY. Before founding Li-Cycle in 2016, Ajay gained extensive technology and project development experience through progressive roles with Hatch's industrial clean tech and advisory practices. \nWhile working in that space, he garnered in-depth engineering and project management experience through clean technology development in the lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and rare earth metals industries. His technical expertise spans the entire project life cycle from conceptual and pre-feasibility studies to construction and commissioning.\n\nHighlights:\nAjay describes the use and benefits of lithium-ion batteries (3:50)\nWhat makes lithium-ion battery recycling unique (4:19)\nAjay's career history and how he spotted a gap in the market (6:42)\nAjay describes Li-Cycle's IP portfolio (8:31)\nWhat it means for companies to be 'environmentally friendly' (9:46)\nThe benefits of domestic production and infrastructure (11:36) \nEconomics and dual-revenue business model at Li-Cycle (12:49)\nAjay discusses competition in the industry (15:50) \nAjay's thoughts on the electric-vehicle adoption (18:05)\nCurrent and short-term priorities for Li-Cycle (20:00)\nRelationship with China in the lithium-ion industry (21:51)\nHow the Inflation Reduction Act impacts businesses like Li-Cycle (23:00)\nAjay's opinion on what investors miss when measuring company value (24:01)\nLinks:\nAjay Kochhar on LinkedIn\nLi-Cycle on LinkedIn\nLi-Cycle Website\nICR LinkedIn\nICR Twitter\nICR Website\nFeedback:\nIf you have questions about the show, or have a topic in mind you'd like...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VPbFZOgoHk78hrWlplrfMSrQROUNxI8jcZ2Gv-hyKm4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mYmFh/NWFlNGJjY2Y0NGFk/YmM2NWJiMTI4NmVh/OWQ4Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}