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Delivering critical metals and minerals to the world

Acquire a critical metals or minerals business - either operating, in development or advanced resource stage

  • Team assembled
  • Project acquisition and optimisation ready
  • Access to global corporate and technical networks
  • Clear targets for evaluation and due diligence
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Management Team

Matthew Fitzgerald

Chief Executive Officer & Director
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Matthew Fitzgerald, our Chief Executive Officer and member of our board of directors. Matthew Fitzgerald commenced his career in Assurance and Advisory at KPMG before moving into the resources industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked across various base metal and diamond projects with resource companies with projects the United States, Europe and Africa and spanning from exploration to production. Mr. Fitzgerald was the inaugural Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of Sandfire Resources Limited, from 2009 to 2023, covering key strategic, corporate, treasury and financial functions relating to the company’s Australian DeGrussa Operations, acquisition and construction of the Motheo Copper-Silver Mine in Botswana and acquisition of the MATSA Copper-Zinc Mining Complex in Spain. Mr. Fitzgerald also serves as chairman of the Pirate Ship Foundation Limited and as director of Millstream Management Pty Ltd. We believe Mr. Fitzgerald is well-qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his robust financial and accounting expertise, proven treasury and corporate strategy capabilities, and significant international operational experience in the resources sector.

Morgan (Mo) Fahimi

Chief Financial Officer & Director Nominee
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Morgan Fahimi, our Chief Financial Officer and member of our board of directors. Since March 2021 Mr. Fahimi has led the sales efforts of Acuris, a media company specializing in high-value content for financial professionals and dealogic platforms, which is owned Acuris by ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business. Acuris provides all-encompassing data and intelligence sets for the equity and fixed income institutional community as well the private equity markets, and is known for its products fixed income research provider Debtwire and Mergermarket, a specialist in M&A intelligence. Mr. Fahimi joined Mergermarket in 2005 as head of sales, where he led the sales effort of the Debtwire division, a worldwide leading fixed income data and intelligence platform. From 2007 to 2020, Mr. Fahimi was Managing Director Head of Sales for the Dealreporter business within Mergermarket, a worldwide leading Risk Arbitrage Data and Intelligence platform, where he was responsible for initiating all commercial relationships and distribution of global Dealreporter., From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Fahimi was an account executive with CIBC World Markets in institutional Middle Market Sales and Trading. Mr. Fahimi is a director of Signal Research, a US and UK based Quantitative, Macro and Technical Analysis Research firm catering to the Institutional investment community. He received a BA in Economics from Kingston University, London, England. We believe Mr. Fahimi is well-qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his deep business development acumen, strong client relationship management skills, and extensive understanding of financial data and market intelligence.

Independent Directors

Karl Simich

Chairman and Independent Director
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Karl Simich will serve as Chairman of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. Mr. Simich is a director of Resource Development Company Pty Ltd, a private company trustee of various private entities, trusts and superannuation funds, as well as a non-executive director of Catalina Resources Limited. Mr. Simich is a resource industry professional with a career spanning 39 years. He has acquired multiple resource projects as well as progressed ten projects, in various commodities, from inception to development and into profitable production. Mr. Simich was the founder, CEO and managing director of Sandfire Resources Limited from 2007 to 2022. Mr. Simich was a junior explorer, through the discovery, financing development and successful 10-year operation of the highly profitable DeGrussa Copper Operations. He was instrumental in establishing and oversaw the implementation of Sandfire Resources Limited’s international expansion strategy (including Matsa in Spain and Motheo in Botswana) to become a globally significant copper producer, with operations and development projects now spanning three continents. The current market capitalization of Sandfire Resources Limited is in excess of USD $6 Billion dollars. We believe Mr. Simich is well-qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his proven executive leadership, deep financial and accounting acumen, and demonstrated ability to drive strategic growth and operational excellence across the global resources sector.

Andrew Childs

Independent Director
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Andrew Childs will serve as a member of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. Mr. Childs is a seasoned Resource Sector entrepreneur and business executive, has been actively involved in the Australian and International Oil & Gas and Mineral Exploration industries for over three decades. Mr. Childs also serves as a director of Aeramentum Resources Limited (since January 2025), involved in mineral exploration in Chile & Cypress and Chairman of Xstate Resources Limited (since April 2020), where he oversees Oil & Gas Exploration and Production. Mr. Childs also serves as a director of Brazell Pty Ltd (since May 2011), a private family company supporting investment initiatives, Goldfellas 2 Pty Ltd (since October 2024), Petroleum Ventures Pty Ltd (since September 2000), and XST Diona Pty Ltd (since December 2024), which is focused on Oil & Gas Exploration in Queensland Australia. Previously, Mr. Childs held directorships across a range of resource and energy companies, driving growth and operational excellence. He was a director of Activate Energy Acquisition Corp. from December 2025 to February 2025, a Director and Chairman of Australian Oil Company Limited from November 2008 to April 2024, and is the founder of Resource Recruitment (since 1995), a firm specializing in Executive Oil & Gas staffing and Consulting Services. His extensive executive and board experience spans Oil & Gas E&P, Mineral Exploration, Resource Investments, and infrastructure enabling sustainable resource development. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Zoology from the University of Otago, New Zealand. We believe Mr. Childs is well-qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his strong corporate governance background, proven capital markets expertise, and demonstrated ability to guide energy and resource companies through strategic transactions.

Michael Westerman

Independent Director
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Michael Westerman will serve as a member of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. Mike Westerman is a Senior Mining Executive with four decades of experience spanning multiple continents and commodities. Most recently, Mike served as the Industrial Lead for Glencore’s Global Copper Operations, overseeing activities across Africa, South America, North America, and Australia. He led the recapitalization of Glencore’s South American assets — Collahuasi and Lomas Bayas in Chile, as well as Antamina in Peru — transforming them into a 1.0Mt copper producer and achieving significant mine life extensions. In Africa, he restructured Glencore’s copper portfolio by winding down and divesting the Zambian operations at Mopani, while advancing production at Mutanda and ramping up output at Katanga in the DRC. Under his leadership, Glencore developed and executed a strategy to grow its copper business, making substantial progress toward project investment decisions in Argentina, Chile, and Peru. We believe Mr. Westerman is well-qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his extensive operational and technical mining expertise, strong risk management capabilities, and demonstrated success in leading large-scale recapitalization and restructuring initiatives across global markets.