Stephen Silver serves as our CEO and chairman of the board. Mr. Silver is a finance professional with over two decades of experience in corporate advisory, sales and trading, and capital markets across Australia and international markets. Mr. Silver is the Managing Director of Evolution Capital Pty Ltd (“Evolution Capital”), an Australian corporate advisory firm specializing in corporate finance and institutional sales and trading, which he founded in 2016. At Evolution Capital he has led numerous public and private transactions across a wide range of sectors, including technology, media, energy, natural resources, and industrial sectors. 

Arthur Chen serves as our CFO. Mr. Chen brings 25 years of financial leadership experience in multinational mining companies and advisory services practices. Since 2022, he has been providing financial advisory services to mining and financial companies as an independent financial consultant. In July 2021, Mr. Chen was appointed as the Chief Accounting Officer at Deepgreen Metals Inc. In September 2021, The Metals Company Inc., formerly known as Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, completed its business combination with Deepgreen Metals Inc. Mr. Chen continued as the Chief Accounting Officer for The Metals Company Inc. until November 2021. Previously, Mr. Chen held Corporate Controller roles at several multinational mining companies with gold producing assets and/or development stage projects, including Teranga Gold Corporation from 2016 through June, 2021. 

Ashley Elizabeth Zumwalt-Forbes serves as our Chief Operating Officer and director. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes is an engineer with thirteen years’ experience in acquiring, financing, and developing both greenfield and brownfield natural resources projects around the world. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes currently serves as Principal at Smoketree Resources LLC, which she founded in January 2025, and as Non-Resident Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies. Prior to founding Smoketree Resources, Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes served as the United States Deputy Director for Batteries and Critical Materials within the Department of Energy from January 2024 through January 2025. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes served as Senior Advisor to Metals Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, from August 2022 through December 2023. Concurrently, Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes served as a founder and director from May 2018 through June 2023 in the following companies: Co-Founder and President of Black Mountain Metals LLC, a private battery metals mining company established in 2018, Co-Founder and President of Black Mountain Exploration LLC, a private natural gas company established in 2019, and Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Black Mountain CarbonLock LLC, a private carbon negative company established in 2021. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes also served as Executive Director of REECycle, Inc., a private rare earth recycling company, from January 2022 to July 2023, and she was an angel investor at New Enterprise Associates via NEA Angel Fund I, LP from July 2022 to November 2023. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes served on the Strategic Advisory Board for Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. V, the group’s fifth SPAC (NASDAQ: HCICU) from January 2021 to January 2023. Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes was Co-Founder and President and board member of Lynncrest Holdings LLC from 2012 through December 2024 and currently serves on the Strategic Advisory Board for TCU’s Energy Institute and Oklahoma University’s School of Petroleum Engineering. Prior to joining Black Mountain in 2017, Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes attended Harvard Business School from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Zumwalt-Forbes worked in several Lead Project Engineering roles from July 2012 to July 2015 at ExxonMobil Corporation and its subsidiary XTO Energy Inc, managing drilling, completions, and planning aspects of international shale exploration.