• Chairman/CEO of ALG Corp., an investment bank and advisory specializing in fossil fuels. Co-founded Gaines, Berland Inc., a full-service energy investment bank providing capital and M&A advisory for small and mid-cap upstream and midstream companies; responsible for over $100 billion in debt and equity raises. Acted as Chief Strategic and Diligence Advisor to financier Carl C. Icahn From 1984-2006, covering all energy investments, including Gulf Oil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Phillips Petroleum, Unocal, Williams Cos., USX (Marathon Oil), Tenneco, among many others.
• Founder and Chairman of NYSE traded Dune Energy, an upstream producer which grew from di minimis production in 2003 to approximately 4,000 boe/d in 2009, at which time Dune traded at an enterprise value of just under $1 billion.

• Past Chairman & President of I-5 Holdings Ltd.
• President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Pacific Arc Resources Ltd.
• CEO and Director at Woodbridge Ventures Inc.;
• President of Global Securities Corp.
• On the board of several other companies, including TSXV-listed MiMedia, a cloud storage-based telecom company.

• 28 years of public-company senior executive and board level international business experience.
• Extensive experience in capital formation & capital markets for new and emerging technologies & companies.
• Contemporary focus on the mining, recycling & securitization of strategic materials & critical elements.
• Co-founder of American Battery Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: “ABAT”) a green battery metals miner & recycler.

• 40 years of operating and financial experience
• 10 years as partner & Managing Director with a FINRA-member, investment banking firm focused on energy relatedtransactions.
• VP of Anadarko Petroleum, focusing on international negotiations and M&A.
• Worked at Amoco Corporation in progressive management assignments
• MBA from Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management

• Graduated West Texas A&M withB.S. in Geology
• Worked as a geologist on drilling projects in the Bakken Shale, Texas, and Oklahoma.
• HAZWOPER 40HR Waste Site Worker 29CFR1910.120 certified, allowing him to work in any restricted or contaminated site.
• Successfully drilled and discovered over 100MM barrels in reserves including helium

•Skylar Cotton serves as an operator for oil and gas projects, starting his successful career from the ground up in 2015 pulling slips and slinging tongs.
• He was a favored driller working for Helmerich & Payne International Drilling. Mr. Cotton drilled for multiple operators, such as EOG Resources, Concho Resources, Chaparral Energy, and Occidental Permian.
•Mr. Cotton brings valuable hands-on experience and knowledge while overseeing a variety of successful wells drilled in the Anadarko, and Permian Basin formations.
•Mr. Cotton attended University of Texas.

•Over 20 years of experience as Corporate Secretary to a variety of public and private companies in the resource sector.
•Former VP Corporate Secretary for Nevada Copper Corp.
•Extensive securities & corp. paralegal experience working with Canadian & US law firms.
•Member of the NevGold Corp. executive team.