Bart Packer joins Lifthium Energy as the company’s CTO

Lifthium Energy has hired Bart Packer as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), overseeing the engineering and project management departments of the Portuguese company for the construction of green lithium refineries.

Bart Packer, an American with an international career spanning more than 25 years, has held senior executive positions in several companies managing industrial complexes, in areas such as renewable energy, chemicals and critical materials, and in several countries, such as the United States, Australia and Russia.

More recently, Bart Packer has served in executive roles on projects within the lithium value chain. Prior to joining Lifthium Energy, Bart Packer was the Vice President of Lilac Solutions, a U.S. multinational technology company that has developed an innovative method that allows lithium compounds to be selectively extracted from salt brines.