James Walker has been our Chief Executive Officer and director since 2022. Mr. Walker has over twenty years of engineering project management experience across various industries, such as construction, mechanical engineering, and nuclear physics and engineering. Mr. Walker has served as a consultant to LIS Technologies Inc ( LIST ), a laser uranium enrichment company and a related party to our company through common ownership and management, since May 2023. Since 2020, Mr. Walker has also held executive roles at Ares Strategic Mining Inc. ( Ares ), where he has been responsible for the construction of plants, purchases of land, operations, marketing, financing, safety regulation compliance, and shareholder relations. Mr. Walker currently devotes approximately five hours per week to his responsibilities at Ares. Prior to this role, Mr. Walker worked as an engineering and project management consultant between 2016 and 2020, developing companies, designing processing operations, overseeing exploration and metallurgy, and public market engagement. He is also concurrently serving on the board of directors of several small-cap publicly traded companies in Canada, including Bayhorse Silver Inc. (Ticker: BHS, Canada: TSX Venture) and Core Critical Metals Corp. (previously known as Xander Resources, Inc.) (Ticker: CCMC, Canada: TSX Venture). From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Walker was a nuclear engineer and project manager for the United Kingdom s Ministry of Defence. While there, he was responsible for infrastructure projects and worked in each stage of the nuclear product life cycle, from concept to decommissioning. At the Ministry of Defence, Mr. Walker was primarily engaged in reactor core manufacturing facilities and fuel reclamation plants. He also managed multidisciplinary teams involving engineers, managers, contractors and finance and commercial personnel, and served as the project lead and manager for several large-scale nuclear engineering and nuclear infrastructure projects. Between 2012 and 2013, Mr. Walker was seconded and worked as a nuclear physicist at Rolls-Royce, leading a project to model various configurations of Rolls-Royce s Zero-Power reactor using probabilistic physics software to digitally replicate real-world behavior and determine program accuracy margins. Mr. Walker also performed roles in Thermal Hydraulics during his secondment, modelling innovative flow mechanics through submarines cores. Mr. Walker holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, a Master of Science degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Exeter, and a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Physics and Engineering from Cranfield University. He is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng, issued 2014) with the IMechE, a Professional Engineer (PEng, issued 2023) with the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, a qualified Project Manager with the APM since 2015, and a Chartered Physicist with the Institute of Physics since 2023. We believe that Mr. Walker is well qualified to serve as a director of our company because of his extensive experience within the nuclear industry and with public markets and the operation of public and private companies.