Luka Erceg

Luka Erceg is founder, President and CEO of Simbol Materials, a venture backed company commercializing transformative technology that leverages renewable energy to create clean energy storage materials. Mr. Erceg brings 12 years of transaction advisory experience predominantly in the energy and energy technology sectors.  Prior to founding Simbol Materials, Mr. Erceg was engaged in private transactions related to oil & gas field telemetry, petroleum marketing and coal gasification.   Earlier in his career, he was Director of Strategic Development for CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) where he completed acquisitions of an oil & gas field telemetry business, intellectual property licensing transactions, and pipeline and gas gathering systems.  While at El Paso Corp. (NYSE:EP), he led the valuation and analysis team for El Paso’s domestic and international power asset portfolio of 77 power plants and restructured power assets as part of a multi-billion dollar financing vehicle.

Mr. Erceg is an emerging thought-leader in the critical materials policy space. Mr. Erceg testified on several occasions before the U.S. Senate Committee and the House of Representatives highlighting that building a domestic supply chain for critical materials will spur domestic manufacturing and innovation throughout the clean energy sector.

Mr. Erceg holds a M.B.A. degree from Rice University, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Economic Law from the University of Houston’s Law Center, a J.D. from the South Texas College of Law, and a Bachelors (B.Com.) in Marketing from the University of Guelph in Canada