Reveille is listed on the Aquis Growth Market in the United Kingdom (AQSE:REV)

Secretary Pompeo served as the 70th United States Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021, having previously served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018. Before joining the Executive Branch of the United States Government, he served as a Member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas’s 4th District from 2011 to 2017. After beginning his career as an officer in the United States Army, Secretary Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point and subsequently from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. His career at the highest levels of the United States Government provides Reveille with exceptional international leadership experience, combined with deep insight into geopolitics, energy security, strategic policy and global institutional engagement.

Outside public service, Secretary Pompeo holds various business, investment and board roles. He is a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of Niobrara Capital Partners, a United States private-equity firm. He is also a director of VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator; a Non-Executive Director of ACG Metals Limited (LSE: ACG), a London-listed copper producer; and a director of Nasdaq-listed digital-risk intelligence company Cyabra, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYAB).

As Non-Executive Chairman, Secretary Pompeo provides strategic leadership to the Board of Directors and support Reveille’s development as an internationally recognised uranium exploration and development company. He will advise on the Company’s positioning in relation to energy security, critical minerals and nuclear-fuel supply chains; support its engagement with Italian government and institutional stakeholders, United States institutional investors, potential United States funding sources and strategic partners; and assist the Board in evaluating uranium exploration and development opportunities in Italy and other Western-aligned jurisdictions, as well as relevant corporate development opportunities.

Secretary Pompeo is of Italian heritage, with family roots in the Abruzzo region. During an official visit to Italy as Secretary of State in 2019, he visited his ancestral home region and publicly described himself as a proud Italian-American. This connection is particularly relevant to Reveille, as certain of its largest shareholders, directors and founders are Italian, and the Company conducts its Italian activities through its subsidiary, Futuro Energetico Italiano S.r.l., further demonstrating the Company’s long-term commitment to Italy.

Mr Cattaneo has been a Director of LSE-listed Zenith Energy Ltd. since 9 December 2008 and has served as President and CEO since 2009. He is an energy specialist with a focus on emerging countries and has 30 years of experience in advising governments in financial, industrial and energy-related matters and he also has significant industrial experiences in Europe. 

Mr Cattaneo has strong expertise and experience in structuring and negotiating contracts in the international markets, specifically the oil industry. He also has significant experience in former socialist countries and arranged, in 1986 the first USD loan in the history of Vietnam, which was back then the third poorest country in the world. Mr Cattaneo holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Genoa and a postgraduate degree in Taxation Law from the University of Bologna.

He has served as Non-Executive Member of the Anglo-Azerbaijan Society, and as a Partner of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and Member of the IADC Caspian Chapter Steering Committee. He has served, in the years from 2004 to 2010, as a Director of the Business Advisory Council to the Great Tumen Initiative, a United Nations project for regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia, comprising the States of China, Mongolia, South Korea and Russia. He is Zenith’s founder. 

Ippolito Ingo Cattaneo is the founder and Executive Director of Reveille Resources Plc. An Italian national, he has experience in the natural resources and energy sectors, combining capital markets knowledge with business development and corporate transaction experience across a number of international jurisdictions.

He began his career with Standard Chartered Bank, where he gained exposure to international financing transactions. He later joined Zenith Energy Ltd, a Canadian-listed oil and gas company quoted on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Growth Oslo, where he was involved in business development activities, strategic transactions and capital markets initiatives.

Mr. Cattaneo is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ajax Resources Plc, a natural resources company focused on the acquisition and development of mineral projects. Through Ajax Resources, he has gained experience in identifying, evaluating and advancing exploration and development opportunities, as well as raising capital and managing stakeholder relationships. He was instrumental in establishing Ajax Resources’ relationship with Appian Capital Advisory LLP, one of the world’s leading private investment firms focused on the mining sector, and in the acquisition and advancement of the Company’s mineral project portfolio.

Mr. Cattaneo founded Reveille Resources to pursue opportunities in the European natural resources sector. Recognising the growing strategic importance of uranium to Europe’s energy security and the increasing focus on nuclear power as a low-carbon source of electricity generation, he identified and developed the opportunity represented by the Lombardy Project, comprising the historical Novazza and Val Vedello uranium deposits in northern Italy. He has subsequently led the Company’s efforts to secure the necessary licences and establish its operating presence in Italy.

Mr. Cattaneo is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.