About
Building A Public Critical Minerals Portfolio
Our mission
Leadership
Frank Kristan
President & Director
American Lithium Minerals Inc
Veteran finance executive with 30+ years in investment strategy, advisory, and capital deployment. Former leader of Cunningham Natural Resources and longtime president of Ludvik Holdings, Inc, specializing in equity and debt financing for U.S. mid-market companies. Background spans energy, technology, and telecom sectors, with a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.
Ryan E.M. Cunningham
Chief Executive Officer, subsidiary
American Mineral Resources, Inc
Ryan is the manager of Cunningham Energy, LLC, an independent producer of oil and gas that he founded in 2008. Currently, he oversees operations for Cunningham Energy, Marzcorp Oil & Gas Inc., Viper Capital Partners LLC, and Raven Ridge Energy LLC. Mr. Cunningham served as the operating partner of Black Crow Oil LLC from 2008 to 2010. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a sales trader with Oppenheimer & Co. (formerly CIBC World Markets), initially in the private client division and later in its institutional trading group with middle markets and institutional sales trading teams, eventually becoming a head equity sales trader in 2001. In 2022, Mr. Cunningham formed Cunningham Mining LTD with a focus on high grade precious metals opportunities. Ryan was named Chief Executive Officer of American Mineral Resources - A wholly owned subsidiary of American Lithium Minerals Inc (OTCID:AMLM) in 2026. He was an active board member of the West Virginia Oil & Gas Association from 2013 until 2022. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Policy from Rollins College.
H. Steven Rhodes
advisor
Steve is a highly accomplished engineering professional and senior executive with over 30 years of advanced experience in geotechnical, geostructural, and environmental engineering disciplines, combined with extensive construction management and project quality control. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Civil Engineering from the University of South Carolina. Mr. Rhodes served as CEO, principal, and co-founder of a large international consulting engineering practice that participated in numerous significant, large-scale commercial, industrial, and government developments, totaling over $10 billion in expenditure. During his tenure, he personally managed over 5000 engineering and construction projects. In 2013, Mr. Rhodes became a permanent member of the Cunningham Energy organization and is intimately involved in all the planning and field construction activities crucial to well drilling programs. Steve joined Cunningham Mining Ltd in 2024 as in-house Engineering and Operations Vice President.
Morgan “Mo” Fahimi
advisor
Since March 2021, Mr. Fahimi has been leading the sales efforts of Acuris, a media company specializing in high-value content for financial professionals and Dealogic platforms. Acuris is owned by the ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business. Acuris provides comprehensive data and intelligence sets for the equity and fixed income institutional community, as well as the private equity markets. It is well-known for its products such as the fixed income research provider Debtwire and Mergermarket, a specialist in M&A intelligence. Mr. Fahimi joined Mergermarket in 2005 as the head of sales, leading the sales effort of the Debtwire division, a globally leading fixed income data and intelligence platform. From 2007 to 2020, he served as the Managing Director and Head of Sales for the Dealreporter business within Mergermarket, a globally leading Risk Arbitrage Data and Intelligence platform. In this role, he was responsible for initiating all commercial relationships and overseeing the distribution of global Dealreporter. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Fahimi was an account executive with CIBC World Markets in institutional Middle Market Sales and Trading. He is also a director of Signal Research, a US and UK-based Quantitative, Macro, and Technical Analysis Research firm catering to the institutional investment community. Mr. Fahimi received a BA in Economics from Kingston University, London, England.
James A. McCrea
Geologist
James serves on the boards of Stamper Oil & Gas Corp., Juggernaut Exploration Ltd., Umdoni Exploration, Inc., and Prisma Exploration, Inc. He is a Member of Geoscientists Canada and a Member of Engineers & Geoscientists British Columbia. Previously, Mr. McCrea held the position of Geologist at SSR Mining, Inc., Vice President-Exploration for T2 Metals Corp., Vice President-Exploration for Patriot Battery Metals, Inc., and Geologist at Fidelity Minerals Corp. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta and has 30 years of experience in mineral exploration and mining geology, with over 25 years in mineral resource estimation. Mr. McCrea's extensive expertise was acquired through working with junior to mid-tier mining/exploration companies, including Cumberland Resources Inc. and Silver Standard Resources Inc., as well as consulting firms SRK (Canada) Inc. and Snowden Mining Industry Consultants. His geological skills span technical review, due diligence, mineral resource/reserve estimation, feasibility studies, and mine startup.
Sean Pownall
Consultant
Sean began his career in the industry at an early age, working with his family in the Yukon and British Columbia. His long-term standing of nearly 30 years in the Mineral Exploration Industry, including founding More Core Diamond Drilling Services Ltd. in 2006, fostering its continual growth and full expansion to international projects, including Sweden and Peru, and working as a Diamond Driller in numerous Mining Exploration projects in Canada and the United States, experiencing grassroots to full production mining, has all contributed to uniquely positioning Sean to be a valuable asset in many areas of the industry today. Mr. Pownall’s mining history also includes serving as a Director and Advisor to Tudor Gold's Treaty Creek project, which lies at the headwaters of the Unik River. The project has grown from a grassroots initiative to the current Mineral Resource of 23.37 million ounces of gold. Additionally, Sean has served as a Director in the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) and as a Director in American Creek Resources. He has also fulfilled roles within Municipality Governance and local community support.
