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
COO
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.
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.
Tim Johnston
Technical
Tim Johnston is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and energy-transition leader with deep experience in scaling advanced-materials, battery recycling, and clean-energy infrastructure companies. He previously served as Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Li-Cycle, one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery recycling companies, which became a publicly listed leader in circular-battery materials. Tim also served as a Partner at Blue Horizon Capital, where he contributed to the development of thematic investment strategies tied to clean energy, electrification, and advanced manufacturing. Earlier in his career, he worked in technical and commercialization roles across mining, specialty materials, and industrial innovation.
Tim advises REalloys on strategic market positioning, customer partnerships, capital strategy, policy alignment, and technology deployment as the company scales rare earth oxide production, metallization, and magnet manufacturing. His background in building multi-facility critical-materials companies gives REalloys important insight into large-scale project execution, commercialization pathways, and how to align with the EV, renewable energy, defense, and industrial markets. Tim plays a key role in helping REalloys navigate the energy-transition landscape and communicate its unique value proposition to institutional investors, government agencies, and OEM partners.
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.
Craig Cunningham
Finance
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.
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.
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.
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.
