Board of Directors

Mr. Scolaro founded the Company and has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board since the Company’s inception. Mr. Scolaro has more than 30 years of experience in the resources and mining sector, and over his career, has created a large portfolio of resource- and mining-industry companies. From April 2016 to July 2017, Mr. Scolaro served as non-executive director of Woodbois Ltd. From 2011 to 2012, Mr. Scolaro served as executive chairman at Paragon Diamonds Ltd. Mr. Scolaro served as non-executive chairman at Kopane Diamond Developments Ltd. from 2009 to 2010, and at African Minerals Ltd., adding broad board-level governance experience in mineral-exploration and development companies. Prior to joining Paragon Diamonds Ltd., from 2007 to 2012, Mr. Scolaro held multiple director positions in the United Kingdom, including at Ansco Petroleum Ltd., Uragold Ltd., Woodbois Services Limited and Obtala Limited, demonstrating his long-standing international operational and corporate leadership in the resources industry.

Mr. Wilson is our Chief Financial Officer and has served in senior planning and finance positions in major corporations around the world, including PepsiCo Inc., Cadbury Schweppes PLC, RJR Nabisco, The Reader’s Digest Association, Reckitt & Coleman PLC, and Footstar Inc. He was the President of PepsiCo’s snack food business in Brazil and Cadbury Beverages North America, and the Chief Financial Officer of Pepsi USA, Cadbury Schweppes North America, RJR Nabisco, The Reader’s Digest Association, Reckitt & Coleman, and Footstar. Mr. Wilson has served on a number of boards of directors, including Reckitt & Coleman, Majesco Entertainment, Natwest Bancorp USA, Middlesex Mutual Assurance, LEK Consulting, and the Chase National Advisory Board. He has served as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Newport News Shipbuilding and Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Mr. Rollason, a non-executive employee of the Company, is a highly experienced mining executive with over 30 years of international experience across exploration, mine development and listed company leadership. He has held senior executive and board roles at multiple AIM- and LSE-listed resource companies, including serving as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Aterian PLC since 2020, Managing Director of Obtala Limited, and Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Edenville Energy PLC. Across these roles he has led corporate strategy, capital markets transactions, asset acquisitions, and project development program spanning gold, base metals, critical minerals, energy and industrial minerals, with operational experience across Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, and a strong track record in value creation, governance and stakeholder engagement.

Dr. Siegfried is a highly skilled consulting geologist with 42 years of professional experience in mineral exploration, resource evaluation, and applied geological research, with particular expertise in carbonatite- and alkaline rock–hosted deposits, rare earth elements (REE), and industrial minerals. He has led and contributed to major exploration and evaluation projects across southern and central Africa and internationally, consulted to large and junior mining and chemical companies, and acted as an independent Qualified Person for NI 43-101–compliant technical reports. His career spans a broad range of commodities, advanced exploration and analytical techniques (including remote sensing, geophysics, petrography, and geochemistry), mine geology, and geohydrological investigations, supported by extensive publications, professional affiliations, and leadership in international research initiatives. He holds BSc, BSc (Hons), and MSc degrees in Geology from the University of Cape Town and was awarded a PhD in Geology from the University of Exeter in 2025, focused on REE mineralisation in carbonatites.

Dr. Veliotis is the Chair of the Accounting Department at Quinnipiac University and previously served as a professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business from 2007 to 2025, serving as department chair in his final three years. He is an attorney and certified public accountant. Dr. Veliotis spent fifteen years in private practice at New York law firms and CPA firms, including KPMG and E&Y. He is often cited in the press as a financial expert and has published over two dozen articles in accounting and law journals. He holds a BBA from Baruch College, a JD from Fordham University School of Law, an LLM in taxation from New York University School of Law, and a PhD in Business from the University of Connecticut in 2007, focused on accounting and taxation.