Board and Management
Management & Technical Team
EcoMetals Resource Group is pioneering a new era as the first entirely Filipino-led team to realize the vision of a nickel laterite eco-friendly process plant. Our extraordinary team, composed of top graduates from the Philippines' most prestigious universities, brings unmatched technical prowess and international professional experience.
EcoMetals is not just another extractive company; we are innovators dedicated to revolutionizing the extraction and metallurgical sectors. Our mission is rooted in sustainability and achieving net carbon zero. Utilizing cutting-edge, zero-waste technologies and eco-friendly mining practices, we drastically reduce environmental impact and support the global transition to renewable energy.
Our unwavering commitment to rigorous international-standard feasibility studies guarantees that our projects are not only economically viable but also environmentally responsible. We aim to provide essential minerals for OEM semiconductors, defense aerospace, energy storage, and EV batteries, playing a crucial role in the green energy revolution.
With a steadfast dedication to innovation and excellence, EcoMetals Resource Group is not just keeping pace with the future, we're leading the charge. We invite you to join us in forging a path to a greener, more sustainable world, proving that Filipino ingenuity and determination can drive global change.
Ingrid Honrado-Nelson
Co-CEO & Chief Strategist
Independent International Consulting Team
Lead Metallurgical & Process Engineering Adviser
Executive Technology & Leadership
Chief Deep Technology Officer,
Gillian O.
Project Management Audit & Metallurgist Consultant
Chief Legal Counsel
Disciplined Leadership, Investor-Aligned Execution Board
EcoMetals is led by a lean, mission-driven team of founders and board members who treat every dollar as a strategic investment in long-term value. We operate with precision, prioritizing milestone-based execution, eliminating unnecessary overhead, and deploying capital only where it delivers measurable impact.
Our leadership blends the agility of a startup with the hard-won experience of seasoned professionals who have successfully built, scaled, and financed ventures across mining, clean technology, and global capital markets.
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To strengthen our execution, the Co-Founder receives ongoing mentorship from Silicon Valley operators recognized for their ability to guide founders, prevent operational drift, and protect shareholder value. This ongoing strategic feedback ensures our vision remains sharp, realistic, and resilient.
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Behind our team is a world-class Strategic Advisory Board, senior experts in finance, capital raising, metallurgy, chemical engineering, and ESG. While they choose to work behind the scenes, their role is far from passive. These advisors actively shape our technical roadmap, evaluate risk, and strengthen our commercial and financial strategy to meet global standards.
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This structure gives investors the best of both worlds:
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✅ Agile leadership with real-world execution skills
✅ Deep technical and financial expertise without excessive overhead
✅ Clear governance, discipline, and transparency that protect your capital
We’re not just building a process plant. We’re building a scalable, transparent, and funder-aligned platform to unlock the full value of the Philippines’ critical minerals, responsibly, efficiently, and with global impact.
Board Members
Ingrid Honrado-Nelson
Co-Founder &
Non-Executive Chairman
Co-Founder & Strategic Director
MBA | Accountancy & Information Systems | ESG & Carbon Strategy | Project Development
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From an Agritech Vision to Purpose-Driven Deep Technology
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Ingrid did not set out to build a critical minerals company. She set out to build a regenerative agricultural hub.
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Her journey began with a plan to transform a nearly 80-hectare site in South Palawan through regenerative agriculture. When assessments showed that the original model would not be viable as planned, geological and laboratory work indicated nickeliferous laterite and potentially associated critical minerals.
Ingrid faced an unexpected question: could what lay beneath the land support a more responsible and valuable path than conventional resource development? That question became EcoMetals.
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While still based in California, Ingrid began building the technical and commercial pathway for a modular mineral-processing platform. EcoMetals is being developed to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste, recover more of the value contained in complex ores, and contribute to diversified global critical-material supply chains. Its pathway is deliberately staged: evidence first, independent validation next, and disciplined scale-up only when the results justify it.
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With more than 25 years of experience across North America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, Ingrid brings together finance, technology, operations and ESG strategy. She has managed more than $15 million in annual client revenue and led transformation across complex organisations. Her strength lies in translating ambitious technical opportunities into structured, commercially credible development pathways.
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As Co-Founder and Strategic Director, she leads EcoMetals’ commercial direction, capital planning and global partnerships.
An ultramarathon runner and high-altitude mountaineer, Ingrid approaches difficult ventures as she approaches a mountain, with endurance, disciplined judgement and the courage to adapt when the path changes.
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EcoMetals began because the end of one plan revealed a larger responsibility. Ingrid believes the strongest industrial projects are those in which commercial performance, environmental responsibility, and community trust reinforce one another. No technology deserves to be called progress if the Earth bears its hidden costs or if Indigenous Peoples and local communities closest to the land are left without a meaningful voice in its future.
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She invites investors, institutions, and technical partners who share that standard: to build enduring global value without transferring its true cost to people or planet.
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Technical Advisors
Technical Advisers to the Board
EcoMetals’ Board is supported by specialist advisers who challenge assumptions before they become commitments. Across metallurgy, process engineering, deep technology and AI-enabled systems, they help ensure that ambition is matched by evidence, disciplined testing and responsible design.
Their role is not ceremonial. It is to ask the difficult questions early, what must be tested, independently verified, protected and improved before the technology can responsibly advance.
Certain identities remain confidential during this early development stage, with credentials made available to authorised institutional reviewers when appropriate.
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Because transformative technology should not merely inspire confidence. It must earn it.
Chief AI & Deep Technology Officer
Bringing nearly a decade of Silicon Valley experience and an international technology perspective, our Chief AI & Deep Technology Officer leads the intelligent digital architecture behind EcoMetals’ dual-circuit platform, from industrial data integration and process intelligence to anomaly detection, traceability, digital MRV and the pathway towards an integrated digital twin.
His work is driven by purpose as much as by technical excellence. He sees code as a means of making complex industrial systems safer, more transparent, more efficient, and scalable across markets. Every system he builds advances a larger mission: creating responsible technology that earns trust, strengthens resilient global supply chains and generates lasting value for partners, communities and the planet.
