Board and Management
Management & Technical Team
EcoMetals is developing a critical-minerals processing and readiness platform under a disciplined, global-standard approach. The purpose is to examine how mineral resources can be evaluated, upgraded, and processed with stronger technical review, clearer environmental safeguards, better data organization, and higher-value recovery potential.
The initiative is organized around a dual-core circuit concept. The first circuit is focused on nickel laterite validation. The second circuit is intended to examine selected non-laterite and polymetallic materials where responsible recovery may be technically, environmentally, and commercially relevant.
Together, these two pathways are designed to support a broader and more flexible model for downstream critical-minerals development, one that does not treat mineral resources as raw materials to be moved quickly, but as materials that deserve careful study, responsible processing, and higher-value use.
EcoMetals’ technical direction is centered on nitric-acid leach and acid-recovery concepts, including acid recycling, acid regeneration, low-waste processing, and potential responsible by-product pathways. These are not presented as completed achievements. They are technical directions that must be examined through feedstock characterization, laboratory work, feasibility studies, environmental review, independent validation, permitting, and responsible institutional participation.
The platform is also being designed with digitized and deterministic project architecture. In plain language, this means EcoMetals is working toward a system where project information can be organized clearly and reviewed carefully. Feedstock data, process assumptions, environmental questions, validation requirements, institutional documents, and future technical decisions should not be scattered, confusing, or hidden in disconnected files. They should be traceable, rules-based, and understandable to qualified reviewers.
This matters because serious projects are not built only with machinery. They are built with evidence, with records, with safeguards, with decisions that can be checked, questioned, improved, and trusted.
EcoMetals’ long-term technical vision includes lower-emission design objectives, carbon-management review, potential carbon-capture opportunities, digital monitoring, acid-recovery optimization, and stronger environmental accountability. These remain evaluation areas, not final claims. The company’s position is that responsible critical-minerals development must earn confidence before it asks for scale.
EcoMetals is not positioning itself as a conventional extractive company. Its focus is responsible downstream critical-minerals readiness: the disciplined work required before larger processing, pilot, or commercial development decisions can responsibly move forward. The company’s work is aligned with the growing global demand for materials relevant to energy storage, electric vehicles, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, defense applications, infrastructure, and low-carbon technologies. These industries need more than mineral supply. They need credible processing pathways that can meet higher expectations for traceability, sustainability, transparency, and institutional trust.
The EcoMetals management and technical team brings together experience in finance, systems, project development, technical coordination, business architecture, infrastructure planning, and mineral-sector engagement. The team’s role is to organize the initiative with discipline, protect the integrity of the project pathway, and prepare the work for serious review by qualified experts, institutions, and future partners.
EcoMetals recognizes that ambition alone is not enough.
A serious critical-minerals project must earn confidence through evidence, safeguards, feasibility work, independent review, and responsible decision-making. The purpose of the management and technical team is therefore not to claim that every answer is already known. It is to build the pathway through which the right questions can be examined properly. At its heart, EcoMetals is working toward a cleaner, more transparent, and more value-generating critical-minerals future, one where essential materials are developed with greater care, stronger evidence, lower environmental impact, and deeper responsibility to people, institutions, and the planet.
Because when resources are handled only as commodities, much of their value leaves too early. But when they are handled with knowledge, discipline, and responsibility, they can become part of something larger: better materials, better systems, better decisions, and a future built with more care.
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.
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.
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.
This structure gives investors the best of both worlds:
✅ 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
From an Agritech Vision to Purpose-Driven Deep Technology
Ingrid did not set out to build a critical minerals company. She set out to build a regenerative agricultural hub.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
