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Our next MCJ Ask-Me-Anything is with Jigar Shah, Director of the Loan Programs Office at the United States Department of Energy.

Let’s meet our guest…

Meet Jigar: Jigar Shah is the Director of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. Shah was most recently co-founder and President at Generate Capital. Prior to that, Shah served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Originally from Illinois, Shah holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois-UC and an MBA from the University of Maryland College Park.

→ MCJ Podcast: Listen to Jigar’s most recent episode with Ajay Kochhar (President and CEO, Co-Founder at Li-Cycle) and Cody here.

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Our AMA with Jigar will start on Thursday 1st June at 7am PST - 10am EST - 3pm GMT and will run asynchronously in this channel for 24 hours.

In Cody’s episode with Jigar and Ajay they cover:

• [4:43] Introduction to the Loan Programs Office
• [9:20] An overview of Li-Cycle and the company's success
• [14:14] $375 million loan from LPO to help scale Li-Cycle's hub and spoke approach
• [25:52] How the DOE evaluates projects and determines where investments are needed