Our Team
Management & Advisors
Canon Bryan
Director, Founder
- Co-founded Uranium Energy Corp, largest US uranium mining company.
- Founded NioCorp, largest undeveloped niobium project in North America.
- Co-founded Terrestrial Energy, world-leading advanced nuclear technology developer.
- Supported >$250M in financing, >$150M in grant funding, >$1B in government loan guarantee.
Graham Ballachey, MASc,PEng
COO
- Professional engineer with extensive experience in building design, manufacturing, energy management.
- VP Engineering, American Lithium Corp, where he directed the successful Preliminary Economic Assessment for a lithium mine.
- Key driver of a US DOE grant application for $300 million towards the construction of the TLC Lithium Claystone Project.
Stephen Boyd, PhD
Lead Chemist
- Trained, patented researcher with proven, extensive lab experience.
- Internationally published – among the top saline, inorganic, nuclear chemistry authors.
- Completed development of six, TRL-6-level chemobiological, organic natural products.
- Expert in Magic-angle Spinning MRI, various xray diffractometry techniques, ideally suited for inorganic, transitionmetal, transuranic, solidstate chemistries.
John Kutsch
Process Engineer
- 30+ years in process engineering for industrial infrastructure.
- Led design for SenReq Syngas, Caldera Mine to Metal, and NREL’s Gratzel solar cells.
- Co-founder and lead engineer of Terrestrial Energy’s IMSR Gen IV reactor.
Gary Gill, PhD
Technical Advisor
- Former Deputy Director and Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab; Retired.
- Former Professor, Texas A&M University.
- PhD Oceanography, University of Connecticut
- Author or co-author on 125 peer-reviewed publications.
Shirly Rodriguez Rojas, PEng
Nuclear Engineer
- Consultant in Advanced Nuclear Solutions.
- Nuclear engineer with expertise in designing test and commercial Advanced Reactors.
- Inventor with a proven track record of developing and patenting innovative techniques for advanced nuclear technologies.
- Managed global BWR outages, coordinating maintenance and operations.