Mr. Smith has over 40 years of experience in operating, developing, and financing mining and strategic materials projects in the Americas and abroad. In September 2013, he was appointed CEO and a Director of NioCorp. From April 2015 to September 2019, Mr. Smith served as the President and Director, and later as CEO, for Largo Resources Ltd.  Mr. Smith has also served on the board of directors of IBC Advanced Alloys Corp., a leading beryllium and copper advanced alloys company, since May 2016, and as CEO of IBC since July 2020. From October 2008 through December 2012, Mr. Smith served as President, CEO and Director of Molycorp, Inc., a rare earths producer, where he was instrumentally involved in taking it from a private company to a publicly traded company with a producing mine. Prior to Molycorp, Mr. Smith was the President and CEO of Chevron Mining Inc. He also served for over seven years as the shareholder representative of Companhia Brasileira Metalúrgica e Mineração, a private company that currently produces approximately 85% of the world supply of niobium. Mr. Smith is a Registered Professional Engineer and serves as an active member of the State Bars of California and Colorado. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado State University in 1981 and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Western State University, College of Law, in 1990.

Mr. Beling is a Registered Professional Mining Engineer with 58 years of project and corporate experience. He has served as a director on the boards of 14 mining companies starting in 1981, including NioCorp since 2011. Mr. Beling is the owner of D.C. Beling & Assoc., LLC, which provides strategic advisory, project, and corporate development services to the mining industry. His previous employment and consulting included 14 years with five major mining companies and then 44 years with 30+ U.S. and Canadian junior mining companies. He was the President, CEO, and Director of Bullfrog Gold Corp. from 2011 until October 2020; and the Executive Vice President and COO of Geovic Mining Corp. from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Beling has examined, significantly reviewed, or been directly involved with 90 underground mines, 136 open pit mines, and 174 process plants in the global metal, energy, and industrial mineral sectors.

Mr. Kehler is Managing Partner of Trimaran Capital Partners, a private equity firm that he co-founded in 1998. Prior to Trimaran, Mr. Kehler was a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of CIBC World Markets, where he was responsible for CIBC’s United States and European Merchant Banking activities, which were conducted through the CIBC Funds. In addition, Mr. Kehler was responsible for overseeing CIBC’s United States and European Leveraged Finance businesses, which included financial sponsor coverage; acquisition finance; high yield origination, underwriting, sales and trading; private placements; and financial restructuring advisory services. Prior to CIBC, Mr. Kehler was a co-founder of The Argosy Group LP. Prior to Argosy, Mr. Kehler was a Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., and before that he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Kehler serves on the Boards of Directors of Celularity, Inc. (biotech; NASDAQ: CELU); and Portman Ridge Finance Corp.., (fixed income investments/asset management; NASDAQ: PTMN). Mr. Kehler previously served as a Director, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of CARE USA, one of the world’s largest private humanitarian organizations; and as Chair of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Mr. Kehler graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

A former Nebraska State Senator and successful business entrepreneur, Mr. Fulton previously served on the Board from 2013 until 2016, when he left to serve as Nebraska Tax Commissioner and Director of the Nebraska Department of Revenue, a 400-employee, $9 billion enterprise.  A mechanical engineer by training, Mr. Fulton is the President of the Nevada-based Hallmark Homecare, LLC and is the Founder and Owner of Guardian Angels Homecare, Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska.  In addition to his work in the senior care industry, Mr. Fulton serves as the Chairman of the Diocesan Finance Council for the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln (Southern Nebraska).  He is the recipient of numerous awards throughout his professional career, including the following:  2012 Lincoln Nebraska Chamber of Commerce “Small Business of the Year”; 2012 Nebraska Sportsmen’s Foundation’s “Outstanding Leadership Award”; 2012 Better Business Bureau “Ambassador of Integrity Award”; 2015 KFOR “Best of Lincoln” winner; Lincoln Journal-Star’s “Lincoln’s 20 Under 40 Young Professionals;” and the 2010 Lincoln Chamber of Commerce “Business Advocate of the Year.”  Mr. Fulton resides in Lincoln with his family. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with studies in Philosophy at Newman University in Wichita, KS and Theology at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmittsburg, MD.