Management Team

Management Team

Management

Andrew Bowering

Interim CEO 

Seasoned venture capitalist with over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration and development across the Americas. He co-founded Millennial Lithium (acquired by Lithium Americas for C$491M in 2022) and founder, officer and director of Prime Mining (recently acquired by Torex Gold for ~C$449M in 2025). He has founded and led multiple successful metals companies including Apollo Silver, Patriot Critical Minerals and NexGold.

Jonathon Franklin

President & Director

Mr. Franklin is a Sweden based economic geologist with over seven years of experience across Australia, Sweden, and Finland. He has strong project management experience, having executed exploration programs ranging from early-stage mapping through to resource definition drilling. Mr. Franklin previously served as CEO for Swedish Minerals AB, acquired by NordX Metals Corp.

Chris Cairns

CFO

CPA, CA with over 13 years of experience in mining finance. He began his career at PwC, supporting Canadian and U.S.-listed mining companies across Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. He has since held senior Controller and CFO roles at public mining companies, overseeing financial reporting, planning, capital markets activities, and corporate governance.

Rona Sellers

VP Compliance & Corporate Secretary

Governance professional with 13+ years of experience in corporate and securities law, specializing in compliance and corporate governance for public companies in Canada and the United States. She serves as VP Commercial & Compliance and Corporate Secretary of Apollo Silver Corp., and as a board member of American Lithium Corp. She holds a BA from Simon Fraser University and an LLB from City, University of London.

Directors

Michael Kobler 

Director

Mining engineer with 35 years of experience in global resource development and early-stage company leadership. He co-founded American Lithium, serving as Executive Chairman, CEO and COO until 2021, and founded Osum Oil Sands, growing it from startup to nearly $500 million in value.

Iain Scarr 

Director

Mining executive with 29 years at Rio Tinto, serving as Commercial Director and VP Exploration, Industrial Minerals Division. He led multiple mineral discoveries in the Americas and Africa, advanced the Jadar lithium project in Serbia, and later founded IMEX Consultants while progressing key lithium assets in Argentina including Sal de Vida, Rincon, and Pastos Grandes.

Henrik Lundin 

Director

Mr. Lundin brings extensive global experience in the natural resource sector. He currently serves as a director at Aker BP ASA. His previous leadership roles include COO of TAG Oil Ltd., where he oversaw global operations and led strategic farm-in/farm-out initiatives across Australia and New Zealand. He also served as Chairman of Gold Line Resources, a director for EMX Royalty Corp. (now Elemental Royalty Corp.) and director at Goldsky Resources Corp.

Sebastian Bergenwall 

Director

Mr. Bergenwall is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Swedish Minerals AB (Scandinavian Uranium), acquired by NordX Metals Corp. He is the co-founder, Executive Vice President, and Director of Scandinavian Resources AB (Nord Royalty Corp.), Scandinavian Tungsten AB, Quantum Mining Tech, and Decouple Solutions.

Technical Team

Jukka-Pekka Ranta I PhD

Exploration Manager Finland

PhD in applied mineralogy and hydrothermal ore-forming processes. Has a strong understanding of the Fennoscandian geology—specialist in petrography, ore microscopy, and geochemical data processing.

Thomas Obin I PhD

Uranium Geologist Consultant

Uranium systems specialist with expertise in structural geology, petrography, and geochemistry. He focuses on fluid-rock interactions controlling unconformity-related uranium deposits and brings extensive field experience from world-class Athabasca Basin projects, including Cigar Lake, McArthur River, and McClean Lake. He also has prior experience with industrial minerals such as andalusite.

Esa Pohjolainen I M.Sc.

Sr. Uranium Expert Consultant

Uranium exploration specialist with over 20 years of experience and strong expertise across a wide range of uranium deposit types. He brings strong local knowledge as a member of the exploration team responsible for AREVA’s Riutta uranium exploration campaigns in Finland which is now part of the NordX portfolio. For the past 17 years, he has represented Finland in the Joint OECD/NEA–IAEA Uranium Group.

Jyri Meriläinen I M.Sc., EurGeol

Sr. Geo Lithium Consultant 

Finnish geologist and EurGeol with over 20 years of experience in mineral exploration, mine geology, and project development across Finland and Sweden. As CEO of Taiga Geoservices, he has contributed to major deposits and led geological work, including site visits, core logging, and technical reporting for NordX’s Bergby lithium project.

Isabelle Lépine I M.Sc. P.GEO

QP and Resource Geologist

Resource development expert with over 20 years of experience leading technical programs and mineral resource management. Her career spans advanced resource development through to active mining operations. Most recently, she served as Director of Mineral Resources at Apollo Silver and Stornoway Diamonds.

Axel Sjöqvist I PhD

Technical Advisor REE

Dr. Sjöqvist is a technical expert in mineral exploration with a PhD in geology focused on rare-earth elements. His experience spans the full exploration lifecycle, combining deep academic knowledge with hands-on industry and business development success, particularly within the Swedish resource sector.

Magnus Leijd

Sr. Exploration Geologist I Consultant

Mineral exploration expert with over 25 years of experience in Sweden and internationally across base/precious metals, PGEs, REE, lithium, and industrial minerals. He contributed to major Swedish deposits at Lundin Mining and North Atlantic Natural Resources, led the Norra Kärr REE project from first drill hole to PFS as Chief Geologist at Tasman Metals, and managed major drilling programs at NordX’s Bergby project.

Anders Zetterqvist

Sr. Exploration Geologist I Consultant 

Geologist with over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration and mine development. He spent many years at Zinkgruvan Mining advancing exploration drilling, ore reserve expansion, research projects, resource estimation. He contributed to regional exploration programs for Boliden, Lovisagruvan, and Nordic Iron in Sweden and Ireland. He also managed extensive drilling programs at NordX’s Bergby lithium project.