About Element One

Brad Kitchen has a 35-year record consisting of investment banking and senior corporate management, including the responsibility for operations and financings for primarily resource based small, medium and large private and public companies. Brad brings knowledge of regulatory, security and tax issues, cross-border financings and market influences to address business challenges of issuers and investors.

Mr. Johnson brings over 35 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry, ranging from grassroots prospecting to consulting company operation and senior public company management. He served as President and CEO of Granite Creek Copper Ltd., a company publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange, prior to its merger with Cascadia Minerals. Mr. Johnson has done extensive research into geologic hydrogen and was responsible for assembling the Company’s current land positions and technical team. He sits on the board of Cascadia Minerals.

Dr. Hosford Scheirer is an internationally recognized expert in subsurface energy systems, with over two decades of research experience at leading institutions including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Stanford University Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling industry consortium. Her work has focused on natural hydrogen generation mechanisms, petroleum systems and subsurface fluid migration. She has a Ph.D. from the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics and a B.S. in Geology-Physics/Mathematics from Brown University.

Dr. Gadikota leads the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group and specializes in sustainable energy. She is the Lenfest Earth Institute Chair and Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and the Columbia Climate School, and previously held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and has received multiple awards, including DOE, NSF and ARO CAREER honors.

Mr. Frank brings approximately 30 years of leadership experience in industrial electrochemistry, hydrogen production, fuel cells and electrolyzer systems. He spent many years at Hydrogenics, where he held senior technical and operating roles. His career also includes productization experience at Twelve and leadership roles at Cummins. Mr. Frank devotes approximately 25% of his professional time to Element One.

Samuel “Kyler” Hardy has over 20 years of experience in the global resource sectors. He has worked with venture capital and private equity funds and has introduced strategic partners to advance projects. Mr. Hardy has founded, managed and successfully sold several resource sector businesses on both the project development side and the service provider side of the sector. Mr. Hardy is currently the CEO of Cronin Group, a natural resource focused merchant bank, Chairman of NuE Power Corp., Executive Chairman of Temas Resources Corp. and CEO of Cronin Exploration Inc.

Brad Kitchen has a 35-year record consisting of investment banking and senior corporate management, including the responsibility for operations and financings for primarily resource based small, medium and large private and public companies. Brad brings knowledge of regulatory, security and tax issues, cross-border financings and market influences to address business challenges of issuers and investors.

Mr. Robinson has 15 years of accounting and capital market experience, having provided audit, tax and consulting services to both private and public companies at MNP LLP and the Telus Pension Fund. He is currently CFO and partner at the Cronin Group, providing financial oversight for a portfolio of private and public companies.

Don has over 30 years’ experience in the real estate development and finance sector.

Mr. Campbell is a retired investment banker with 35 years of investment banking and capital market experience as an Executive Director at CIBC Wood Gundy in Toronto and Vancouver.

Aaron Mattson is the founder of Mafic Consulting Group, a consultancy dedicated to natural hydrogen, and the creator of GARTH, an AI-driven exploration model for geologic hydrogen resources. He has over 15 years of experience in oil and gas operations, strategy and financial planning, including leadership of programs on Alaska’s North Slope. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Gadikota leads the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group and specializes in sustainable energy. She is the Lenfest Earth Institute Chair and Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and the Columbia Climate School, and previously held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and has received multiple awards, including DOE, NSF and ARO CAREER honors.