Dan has spent the last 15 years as a founder and executive leader in sustainable infrastructure deployment and operations. In his last role, he acted as the founder and CEO of Tantalus Labs, where he and his team designed, built, and operated it’s first-of-a-kind production facility SUNLAB, reducing energy demand 90% per square foot relative to historic incumbents. 

He scaled his team to 150 employees, grew revenues from 0 to $20m/y, and delivered leading revenue-per-employee sector wide. Dan has a strong track record in executive leadership, Government Relations, Public Relations, and project management. He prides himself on building cultures that foster intellect, drive, and relentless resourcefulness.

Canon Bryan is a founder and company builder with over 25 years of experience in various aspects of advanced energy companies. He is a Founder of Terrestrial Energy (NASDAQ: IMSR), Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE: UEC), largest incumbent on the NYSE, and NioCorp (NASDAQ: NB) the largest strategic Niobium reserve in the United States.

He has contracted with many public and private companies, performing a variety of finance-related functions. His skillset includes public company financial reporting, management reporting, full-cycle accounting, financial planning and analysis, economic modelling, corporate development strategies, technical writing, and project management.

As Founder of Terrestrial Energy, the world’s leading developer of Generation IV IMSR Nuclear Power Plants, he successfully contributed to fundraising over $1.5b USD including a singular US Government loan guarantee, awarded only once since the inception of the program in 2011.

John Kutsch leads the integration of the many discrete systems into a complete unified, optimized and refined system for economic and rapid construction and operation in his role as Chief Engineer of Syntholene.

John brings over 30 years of experience in systems design and implementation for large industrial companies. He has led innovation and design engineering across diverse advanced energy implementations, including the Senreq Syngas waste-to-energy plant in Morris Illinois, Caldera Mine to Metal in Pea Ridge Missouri, and NREL’s Gratzel Effect Solar Cells. He was also the lead designer of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) fission reactor for the one of the world’s leading developers of Gen-IV nuclear systems, Terretrial Energy.

Mr. Kutsch has managed energy research projects for Xcel Energy, in conjunction with NREL. He has led Plant and Equipment Optimization and integration programs for a consortium of ADM, Marathon Oil, North Development’s advanced-design Ethanol facility. The facility successfully integrated discrete systems, new standard operating procedures, and new approaches to create the first closed loop, circular, ethanol energy system, greatly increasing operating efficiencies while eliminating nearly all waste streams.

Jack has 7 years of experience in high-temperature and pressure reactors, pilot-scale rig design, and execution. As a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), his main research activity was Improving understanding and the design of heterogeneous catalytic and electrocatalytic reactors for synthetic fuel production and CO2 capture and utilization, primarily using magnetic resonance methods.

Jack designed and produced the world’s first industrially-relevant MRI-compatible electrolysis cell. He invented new magnetic resonance methodology that enabled the first ever real-time spatial imaging of the product composition inside catalyst pores in an operating heterogeneous catalytic reactor with results published in the prestigious journal Nature Catalysis. Jack designed, commissioned and performed successful experiments on the world’s first MRI-compatible Fischer-Tropsch reactor that obtained real-time measurements at industrial temperatures and pressures, providing insight for design optimisation, in collaboration with Shell. Research contributed towards Shell collaborators achieving production of 500 litres of synthetic kerosene used in the first successful passenger flight powered by sustainable fuel with KLM airlines.

Grant brings over 15 years of senior financial leadership experience within the global natural resources sector, with a track record spanning both operating companies and complex, multi-asset organizations. He previously served as Director of Finance Operations for Ma’aden Gold & Base Metals, where he supported large-scale mining operations and strategic growth initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. Earlier in his career, Grant held progressively senior finance roles at Teck Resources Limited, New Gold Inc., and Copper Mountain Mining Corporation, gaining deep expertise in mine finance, capital allocation, and operational performance management. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in Entrepreneurial Leadership, combining rigorous financial discipline with a pragmatic, growth-oriented mindset. Grant is also a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).

Steve Oldham is a seasoned climate-technology executive with a track record of building and scaling first-of-kind carbon management companies. As CEO of Carbon Engineering, he helped establish direct air capture as a globally viable carbon-removal pathway and led more than $100 million in project and corporate financings, culminating in the company’s $1.6 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum in 2023. He currently serves as CEO of Captura Corp, where he has advanced novel ocean-based carbon removal technology from research through commercial demonstration, raising over $60 million to date. Previously, he was Vice President of Strategic Business Development at MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), overseeing major aerospace, robotics, and satellite programs central to Canada’s space infrastructure. In addition to his executive roles, he is a trusted advisor, board member, and thought leader frequently engaged by governments, corporations, and multilateral agencies on carbon-removal scale-up, infrastructure deployment, and climate-policy design.