Ajay Kochhar is the President, CEO and co-founder of Li-Cycle. In this role, Ajay provides strategic oversight and leadership for Li-Cycle’s operations, commercial and financing activities, as well as shared services.
Before founding Li-Cycle, Ajay gained extensive technology and project development experience through a series of progressive roles within Hatch’s industrial cleantech and advisory practices. While working at Hatch, he developed in-depth, engineering and project management experience through clean technology development in the lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and rare earth metals industries. He has demonstrated technical expertise that spans the entire project lifecycle, from conceptual and pre-feasibility studies to construction and commissioning.
Born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Ajay comes from entrepreneurial roots, having gained experience from a young age via a family business.
Ajay is a graduate of the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Chemical Engineering.