Building a Resilient American Future – From Rare Earths to Magnets.
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Lipi Sternheim
CEO
Lipi Sternheim is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of REalloys and serves on its Board of Directors. He is also the founder and CEO of Quartz Lake Mining, a Nevada-based integrated gold mining company, and has spent more than two decades de-risking and developing mining and oil & gas projects, with a focus on resource security and vertically integrated value chains. At REalloys, he is leading the build-out of a fully integrated “mine-to-magnet” platform across North America, spanning rare earth feedstock, midstream processing, metallization, and magnet manufacturing.
Sternheim’s work sits at the intersection of critical minerals, national security, and advanced manufacturing. He has led capital formation, corporate structuring, and strategic partnerships with entities such as the Saskatchewan Research Council and North American defense and industrial stakeholders. Under his leadership, REalloys is positioning itself as the cornerstone of a non-Chinese, allied rare earth and magnet ecosystem designed to support defense, electrification, and re-industrialization.
Anupam Ghildyal
CGO
Anupam has been integral in building over ten startups, serving as a co-founder, founding team member, or founding investor across the manufacturing, materials, energy, and technology sectors. He co-founded three companies focused on breakthrough innovations: low-cost direct lithium extraction from brines, lead-acid battery regeneration, and domestic production rare-earth metals and magnets. Anupam was also a part of the founding team at VulcanForms, that has set up the highest throughput metal additive manufacturing facility in North America to reindustrialize American metal manufacturing.
Anupam has a track record of accelerating early- and growth-stage companies from ideation and prototyping to full commercialization. His expertise spans technology and product development, team building, commercialization, financial management, capital raising, and corporate development. He has helped launch over 20 products, raised more than $1 billion in funding, and established manufacturing and sales operations across the globe.
Dr. Muhammad Imran
COO
Dr. Muhammad Imran, P.Eng., C.Dir. is a senior executive and technology leader with extensive experience in rare earths, critical minerals, chemical processing, advanced materials, and the commercialization of complex technologies. As the Chief Operating Officer of REalloys, he provides operational leadership across the company’s global activities, including engineering and processing, capital project execution, supply-chain development, and the advancement of an integrated minerals-to-magnets platform.
Previously, Dr. Imran served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), where he played a leading role in building and commercializing rare-earth capabilities from early-stage concepts through pilot testing, engineering, construction and industrial deployment. His experience includes rare-earth extraction and separation, NdPr and heavy rare-earth processing, metallization, advanced process control, automation, and AI-enabled operations. Dr. Imran has developed extensive relationships across the global rare-earth ecosystem, working with industry, technology providers, governments, research organizations, investors, and strategic partners across the globe. He holds the Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Chartered Director (C.Dir.) designations, as well as a PhD and MASc in Chemical Engineering. His career combines deep technical expertise with executive leadership, commercialization, strategic partnerships, and delivery of large-scale industrial projects.
Craig Cunningham
CFO
Craig Cunningham is a seasoned capital markets executive with more than 25 years of experience in wealth management, investment advisory, and strategic financing across North America. Over the course of his career, Craig held senior leadership roles at Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo Advisors, and other major financial institutions, where he built and managed multi-hundred-million-dollar portfolios for high-net-worth clients, institutional investors, and Fortune-level executives. His expertise spans structured finance, corporate growth strategy, investor relations, and the design of sophisticated capital-market instruments for complex industrial and growth-stage companies.
Craig brings to REalloys deep experience in capital formation and investor communications for companies undergoing rapid scale-up. His advisory work has helped multiple advanced-manufacturing and resource companies strengthen governance, prepare for institutional capital rounds, and strategically position themselves for eventual public markets entry. At REalloys, Craig supports capital strategy, investor messaging, board-level preparation, and long-term financial structuring – critical pillars as the company builds North America’s first fully integrated rare earth metals and magnet manufacturing ecosystem.
Andrew Sherman
Head of R&D
Andrew is a serial entrepreneur who has dedicated his professional life to developing sustainable materials using material science and technology. Andrew is an entrepreneur with 35 years of early-stage experience developing specialty metal and ceramic products for a variety of applications. Andrew has been the leader on technology platforms that have led to the creation of 11 startups, leading to two $100M+ exits, and two corporate acquisitions.
Andrew has authored over 200 papers and presentations, has over 50 patents issued or pending, and is a member of good standing with six technical societies. Andrew was recognized as a 2009 and 2012 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. Andrew has a Bachelors in Chemical and Ceramic Engineering and a Masters in Ceramic Engineering from Ohio State University. He was trained as an entrepreneur by Richard Kaplan of Ultramet, and Bob Hozle, of Delta/G, who were in turn sponsored by David Packard and other early entrepreneurial leaders. He has successfully bootstrapped and then incubated technologies for his full career, choosing the entrepreneurial route. His love is defining, developing, and incubating nascent technologies to commercial sustainability.
Joe Kasper
Government Relations
Joe Kasper is a national-security strategist and senior government advisor with deep experience at the highest levels of U.S. defense policymaking. He served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Defense/War (and former Army officer) Pete Hegseth, where he played a central role in shaping veterans policy, defense reform efforts, and national-security communications. Prior to that role, Joe worked closely with senior congressional leaders to advance military readiness, defense appropriations, and strategic initiatives focused on strengthening America’s industrial and warfighting capabilities.
Joe brings to REalloys a uniquely valuable combination of defense-sector insight, policy expertise, and Washington-level operational experience. His background allows REalloys to effectively navigate the intersection of critical-materials strategy, defense procurement, congressional engagement, and U.S. government priorities tied to supply-chain independence. As REalloys rebuilds the rare earth and permanent magnet ecosystem in North America, Joe’s experience and relationships provide essential guidance on aligning the company’s mission with the evolving needs of the Department of Defense, national-security policymakers, and federal industrial-base programs.
Lipi Sternheim
CEO & Executive Director
Lipi Sternheim is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of REalloys and serves on its Board of Directors. He is also the founder and CEO of Quartz Lake Mining, a Nevada-based integrated gold mining company, and has spent more than two decades de-risking and developing mining and oil & gas projects, with a focus on resource security and vertically integrated value chains. At REalloys, he is leading the build-out of a fully integrated “mine-to-magnet” platform across North America, spanning rare earth feedstock, midstream processing, metallization, and magnet manufacturing.
Sternheim’s work sits at the intersection of critical minerals, national security, and advanced manufacturing. He has led capital formation, corporate structuring, and strategic partnerships with entities such as the Saskatchewan Research Council and North American defense and industrial stakeholders. Under his leadership, REalloys is positioning itself as the cornerstone of a non-Chinese, allied rare earth and magnet ecosystem designed to support defense, electrification, and re-industrialization.
Steve DuMont
Chairman of the Board
Stephen S. DuMont is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of REalloys and serves as President of GM Defense LLC, General Motors’ (NYSE: GM) business focused on advanced mobility technologies for global defense, aerospace and security customers. In his GM Defense role, he oversees programs in electrified platforms, autonomy, and protected mobility and leads growth into new defense and government markets. Previously, he held senior leadership roles at Raytheon (now RTX), including vice-president positions in business development and strategy for its intelligence and space businesses, and he earlier served at BAE Systems and Boeing.
DuMont is also a U.S. Army veteran and former AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot, giving him first-hand experience with the systems and supply chains REalloys aims to support. As REalloys’ Chairman, he brings deep insight into defense procurement, secure supply chains, and government–industry collaboration, helping align the company’s rare earth and magnet capabilities with the needs of U.S. and allied defense programs and the broader national-security industrial base.
General Jack Keane
Non-Executive Director
General Jack Keane is a foreign policy and national security expert who provides nationwide analysis and commentary in speeches, articles, congressional testimony and through several hundred television and radio interviews annually. He serves as an advisor to presidents, cabinet officials, members of congress, international leaders, CEOs and business leaders. He is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, a member of the prestigious Secretary of Defense Policy Board, having advised four Defense Secretaries and a member of the 2018 and 2022 Congressional Commission on the National Defense Strategy.
General Keane, a four-star general, completed 37 years of public service in December 2003, culminating in his appointment as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. As the chief operating officer of the Army for over 4 years, he directed 1.5 million soldiers and civilians in 120 countries, with an annual operating budget of 110 billion dollars. General Keane was in the Pentagon on 9/11 and provided oversight and support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In late 2006 President Bush invited General Keane to the Oval Office among others to discuss Iraq. Alone among them, General Keane brought the president a concrete strategic concept, later to be known as the troop “surge” which he helped develop, to change American strategy for the war and improve its execution. During the surge period General Keane conducted frequent trips to Iraq and Afghanistan for senior defense officials. General Keane is a career infantry paratrooper, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War decorated for valor, who spent much of his military life in operational commands, including command of the famed 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and the legendary 18th Airborne Corps, the Army’s largest warfighting organization.
General Keane is the son of an immigrant mother, a WWII Marine father, a born and raised New Yorker and lifelong NY Yankee fan. He was commissioned an infantry 2nd Lieutenant from Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate at Fordham University receiving a Bachelor of Science degree and received a Master of Arts degree from Western Kentucky University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the Army Command and General Staff College.
Among his awards, General Keane was the first military leader to be honored with the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award and the prestigious Bradley Prize. In March of 2020 General Keane was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. General Keane’s numerous military service medals and citations include two Defense and two Army Distinguished Service Medals, five Legions of Merit, the Silver Star, Bronze Star, three Vietnam Service medals, Combat Infantryman Badge, Master Parachutist Badge and Ranger Tab, to list a few.
David MacNaughton
Non-Executive Director
David MacNaughton is President of Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of Palantir Technologies, where he helps governments and major enterprises deploy advanced data integration and analytics software. He is best known for having served as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States from March 2016 to August 2019, representing Canada in Washington during a pivotal period for North American trade and security, including the negotiation of CUSMA/USMCA.
Before his ambassadorship, MacNaughton co-founded Public Affairs Resource Group (PARG), chaired StrategyCorp, and held senior roles in federal and provincial politics and public affairs. He is widely credited with reshaping the Canadian public-affairs industry by integrating government relations, polling, and strategic communications. On the REalloys Board, he brings this combination of diplomatic, policy, and business experience to help the company navigate U.S.–Canada critical-minerals policy, build allied supply-chain partnerships, and position REalloys as a strategic asset for both countries’ security and industrial strategies.
Brad Wall
Non-Executive Director
The Honorable Brad Wall served as the 14th Premier of Saskatchewan from 2007 to 2018, one of the longest tenures in the province’s history. During his time in office, Saskatchewan achieved a AAA credit rating, saw significant population and export growth, and strengthened its reputation as a global resource and agriculture powerhouse. His government was known for its focus on competitiveness, infrastructure investment, and resource-industry development, including potash, uranium, and oil and gas.
Since leaving office, Wall has taken on a series of high-profile business and advisory roles. He serves as a Special Advisor at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and has been involved with boards and advisory groups in the energy and resource sectors, including NexGen Energy and other resource-driven organizations. His experience in provincial and national policy, cross-border trade, and resource development directly supports REalloys’ strategy to build a North American rare earth and magnet supply chain anchored in Canadian and U.S. jurisdictions.
Bob Foresman
Non-Executive Director
Bob Foresman is Vice Chairman of KingsRock Advisors, a global financial services firm based in New York, having served as Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank from 2016-2020. Bob was one of UBS’s most senior origination and client coverage bankers globally across its investment banking and wealth management platforms. He was the Barclays Group country head from 2009 to 2016 for Russia and the wider region, where he represented and coordinated the activities of Barclays Group, including investment banking, wealth management, corporate banking and asset management. Bob was deputy chairman of Renaissance Capital, the Moscow-based investment firm, from 2006 to 2009, with a focus on originating the firm’s largest mandates and managing its most important relationships; chairman of the management committee for Russia /CIS at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (from 2001 to 2006); and head of investment banking for Russia/ CIS at ING Barings (from 1997 to 2000).
Bob also ran the Ukrainian Privatization Advisory office of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) from 1993 to 1995 in Kyiv and worked on private equity and project finance transactions as an investment officer at IFC’s head office in Washington, DC, from 1995 to 1997. Bob has served on numerous public and private company boards (NYSE, NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange). He is currently a shareholder and director of Miami Steel, a $650m private greenfield steel mill development in Homestead, Florida; a director of REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY), a vertically integrated North American heavy rare earth, defense-focused feedstock-to-magnet company; a director of Noventiq, a global leader in IT services, digital transformation, and cybersecurity; and serves/served as director of several NSYE- and NASDAQ-listed Special Purpose Acquisition Corporations. Bob is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the advisory board of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies from 2017-2024. Bob graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 1993 (A.M. in Area Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia) and Bucknell University in 1990. (B.A in International Relations & Russian). He is fluent in Russian and proficient in Ukrainian. Bob and his wife, Luda, have 5 children and reside in Upstate NY.
