Drs. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi and Greg Smith established Calsmelt Pty Ltd as a private Australian-based company in 2005. Calsmelt holds an exclusive license to commercialize the Thermical™ aluminium carbothermic smelting technology. That technology has been developed and is held by Thermical IP Pty Ltd, which is a second company, also owned by Smith and Sayad-Yaghoubi.
Thermical™ technology has been developed over the period between 2002 and 2009. There are three patent applications which are in prosecution in many jurisdictions, as well as a significant amount of trade secret information that, Calsmelt believes, encompass all of the understanding required to justify a next scaled-up development activity designed to provide all of the necessary engineering data for the construction of a significant semi-works plant.
Calsmelt Company Board:
Dr. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi Executive Director
Dr. Gregory R. Smith Executive Director
Dr. Mark Toner Independent Chairman & Director
Thermical IP Company Board
Dr. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi Executive Director
Dr. Gregory R. Smith Executive Director
Dr. Mark Toner Independent Chairman & Director
Thermical™ Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi
Dr. Gregory R. Smith
TBD
Calsmelt Executive Team
Dr. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi Chief Scientist and Chief Process Engineer (Technology Inventor & Company Co-Founder)
Dr. Greg Smith Vice-President, Business Development, Chief Executive Officer (& company co-founder)
Supporting Team:
Financial:
McKernanEllis Pty Ltd; Lifewealth Group, Mr. Paul McKernan, Partner,
Level 4, 423 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
[GPO Box 1890R, Melbourne Victoria, 3001 AUSTRALIA]
Tel: (+61)3.9670.4511 E-mail: paulm@lifewealth.com.au
General Counsel:
Carter Lawyers, Mr. David Carter,
Level 1, 159 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205. AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61)3.8646.3866 E-mail: david@carterlawyers.com.au
Patent Attorney:
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick, Mr. Robert Cross, Partner,
Level 23, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000. AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61)3.9614.1944 E-mail: robert.cross@pof.com.au
Early Stage Company Business Advisory:
M Group, Mr. Wayne Fitzsimmons, Director,
Level 1, 159 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61)3.8646.3383 Email: wayne.fitzsimmons@m-group.com.au
Webmaster:
Mr. Alex Cherniy,
P.O. Box 5421, Mordialloc, Victoria, 3195 AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61).3.9012.3547 E-mail: alexchern@gmx.net
Brief Resumés:
Dr. Mark Toner (Chair, Calsmelt)
Mark is a former Managing Director of Kvaerner E&C Australia, a subsidiary of the international engineering and construction group Aker Solutions. His background is in technical marketing and management with a career focus on science, engineering and IT. He is a member of Monash University's IP and Commercialisation Committee and an Adjunct Professor in Monash University's Faculty of Engineering.
Mark chairs Australian Science Innovations. He is a former Chair of the Co-Operative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing, a former Deputy Chair of Melbourne IT Ltd, and a past President of the Business/Higher Education Round Table. Dr. Toner is a Fellow of the following organisations: the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Engineers Australia, the Institution of Chemical Engineers in Australia (and former Chair) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mark is also a Management Consultant with Toner & Associates.
Dr. Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi (Chief Process Engineer, Director, Calsmelt & Thermical)
Yaghoub is the co-founder and a director of the Australian companies, Calsmelt Pty Ltd and Thermical Pty Ltd, which were founded to commercialize ThermicalTM carbothermic aluminium technology. This technology was invented by Dr. Sayad-Yaghoubi.
Yaghoub is a materials/chemical engineer. His areas of expertise include high temperature smelting technologies and material performance. He has more than 28 years of experience working in heavy industry, including 12 years in mineral processing and steelmaking plants. He has worked as a project engineer, area manager, and production superintendent during this time. He also worked for over 9 years in research on numerous smelting projects at CSIRO and at BHP Research as well as on deterministic failure analysis projects at the Monash Maintenance Technology Institute where he acted as a senior and principal research engineer.
During the last seven years, initially trading as Progress Systems and Engineering (PSE), Dr. Sayad-Yaghoubi has worked to develop new smelting processes and also worked as a contractor/consultant on plant specific failure elimination and plant productivity and efficiency.
Yaghoub holds a B.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering (pyrometallurgy) from the University of Melbourne. He has published 45 papers and technical reports across areas of smelting and plant operation and in maintenance.
Dr. Gregory R. Smith (Vice-President, Business Development, Director, Calsmelt & Thermical, CEO)
Greg is the co-founder and a director of the early stage companies, Calsmelt Pty Ltd and Thermical Pty Ltd. He is also a co-founder and a director of the venture capital company, SciVentures Investments Pty. Ltd., which is the manager of the SciVentures Pre-Seed Fund, an early stage venture capital fund.
He returned to Australia in 1999, after 17 years based in USA and Europe working on the identification and development of high technology business opportunities from research outcomes. He was a Director of the Alcoa Technical Center in Pittsburgh and, before that, Vice-President of AlliedSignal’s corporate research laboratories in Morristown, New Jersey and in Chicago. Earlier, he had worked for the Exxon Chemical Company with technology and business development assignments in Australia, Belgium and USA.
In 2000, Greg was awarded the Washington-based Industrial Research Institute's prestigious Maurice Holland award for his work at AlliedSignal and Alcoa on “front-end innovation”. He has served as a member of the Australian Federal Government’s IR&D Board and of its Advisory Council for Intellectual Property. He is the chairman (or a director) of the boards of four SciVentures start-up companies.
Greg chairs the board of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility NCRIS platform and chairs or is a member of several other University-related advisory boards. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Cranfield University (UK), together with B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Melbourne.