About Element One

Brad Kitchen has a 35-year record consisting of investment banking and senior corporate management, including the responsibility for operations and financings for primarily resource based small, medium and large private and public companies. Brad brings knowledge of regulatory, security and tax issues, cross-border financings and market influences to address business challenges of issuers and investors.

Mr. Frank brings approximately 30 years of leadership experience in industrial electrochemistry, hydrogen production, fuel cells and electrolyzer systems. He spent many years at Hydrogenics, where he held senior technical and operating roles. His career also includes productization experience at Twelve and leadership roles at Cummins. Mr. Frank devotes approximately 25% of his professional time to Element One.

Dr. Hosford Scheirer is an internationally recognized expert in subsurface energy systems, with over two decades of research experience at leading institutions including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Stanford University Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling industry consortium. Her work has focused on natural hydrogen generation mechanisms, petroleum systems and subsurface fluid migration. She has a Ph.D. from the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics and a B.S. in Geology-Physics/Mathematics from Brown University.

Brad Kitchen has a 35-year record consisting of investment banking and senior corporate management, including the responsibility for operations and financings for primarily resource based small, medium and large private and public companies. Brad brings knowledge of regulatory, security and tax issues, cross-border financings and market influences to address business challenges of issuers and investors.

Mr. Campbell is a retired investment banker with 35 years of investment banking and capital market experience as an Executive Director at CIBC Wood Gundy in Toronto and Vancouver.

Dr. Gadikota is the Lenfest Earth Institute Chair and Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and the Columbia Climate School. She directs the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group, where her work focuses on advancing technologies for co-recovery of sustainable energy carriers and critical metals. Prior to Columbia, Dr. Gadikota held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Economics from Michigan State University.

Aaron Mattson is the founder of Mafic Consulting Group, a consultancy dedicated to natural hydrogen, and the creator of GARTH, an AI-driven exploration model for geologic hydrogen resources. He has over 15 years of experience in oil and gas operations, strategy and financial planning, including leadership of programs on Alaska’s North Slope. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder.