Cris Moreno has over 20 years of global experience in delivering major, unique and challenging capital projects within the energy and chemicals sector, including success in leading “green” scale-up companies into commercial production.
Mr Moreno joined Vulcan Energy Resources as deputy chief executive in November 2022 and was appointed managing director and chief executive in July 2023. He had worked in the lithium chemicals and battery cathode sector in Europe, as senior director of programs for Northvolt –Cathode Active Material (CAM) Business Unit, and vice president of engineering and development at Aurora Lithium, Northvolt’s lithium hydroxide refinery joint venture with Galp in Europe. In the LNG sector, Mr Moreno held leadership roles with Santos, Woodside, and Shell, including working on the Browse, Gorgon and Prelude LNG projects. His experience was mainly in the execution phase, financially responsible for budgets over USD 1 billion and leading teams of up to 1,000 personnel.
