Michael Prassas is a sales, marketing, and business development manager with over 25 years of international experience in the automotive, electronics and mining sectors.
He has almost 10 years of experience in selling rare earth oxides and materials, and in developing rare earth projects.
Prior to his appointment in a newly-created role as head of corporate development at RareX in May 2022, Mr Prassas was an advisor & business development and research consultant for critical raw materials; corporate communications and risk manager with Hastings Technology Metals; executive general manager of sales, marketing & business development at Peak Resources from February 2016 to August 2020; global account manager for over 3.5 years at Automotive Catalysis; and sales manager of rare earth systems for chemical company Solvay where he was based in France for over 3.5 years. He had also worked for companies in Amsterdam and Germany.