Board of Directors

Mr. Richard Meli is a director of Lion One, having been a director of its predecessor company since 2004. He is an independent businessman and a former senior executive at Rio Tinto (1996-1999) where he managed the company’s global mergers and acquisitions, and President of Rio Tinto subsidiary Luzenac America (1999-2001). From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Meli was an independent consultant to the mining and oil and gas industries and was President of La Mancha Resources (2004-2006). Mr. Meli worked for Kennecott Corp., then one of the world’s largest copper producers, from 1980 until it was acquired by Rio Tinto in 1989. At Kennecott, Mr. Meli served in a number of planning, analysis and financial management positions, lastly as Senior Vice President. Mr. Meli began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly known as Price Waterhouse & Co.) in 1971, spending eight years in the firm’s New York office, becoming a CPA and reaching the level of Audit Manager. He earned a B.S. in Economics in 1969 and an M.S. in Accounting in 1971, both from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Todd Romaine is an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) expert with over 25 years of professional experience. He has served in senior management positions in mining, oil and gas, non-profit, aboriginal, and public sector organizations, including Vice President Corporate Social Responsibility and Government Relations at Nevsun Resources Ltd., Chief Sustainability Officer for Danakali Limited, and Executive Vice President Sustainability at Galiano Gold Inc. Mr. Romaine serves as the President & CEO for EAU Lithium, a private Australian company that is commercially advancing a responsible lithium business in the altiplano region of Bolivia.

Mr. Romaine holds several undergraduate degrees in environment and planning, and has master’s degrees in leadership from the University of Guelph, international relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and in sustainability leadership from the University of Cambridge. Mr. Romaine is a designated planner with the Canadian Institute of Planners.

Mr. Anderson is an accomplished and successful investment banking professional with over 30 years of capital markets experience. During his executive career Mr. Anderson has managed numerous high-profile mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring initiatives, and has acted as lead advisor for over 50 companies in going public transactions. Mr. Anderson was one of the founders and former Vice Chairman of Dundee Securities Limited in Toronto, where he was head of investment banking for 18 years from 1998 to 2016. At Dundee Mr. Anderson was instrumental in creating one of the largest and most successful independent investment dealers in Canada, managing a team of 40 investment bankers nationwide.

From 2017 to 2020 Mr. Anderson was Vice Chairman of investment banking at Echelon Partners in Toronto, focused on capital raising and M&A services in the resource, real estate, health care, technology, industrial, and cannabis sectors. From 2020 to 2023 Mr. Anderson was head of capital markets for Industrial Alliance where his oversight included investment banking, syndication, institutional sales and trading, fixed income activities, and a team focused on funding initiatives and corporate relationships in the mining, energy, real estate, health care and industrial sectors. Mr. Anderson continues to be active as a corporate advisor on several strategic growth and funding initiatives.

Mr. Anderson started his career as an analyst with the National Energy Board of Canada in 1976 focused on the MacKenzie Valley pipeline hearings, before joining the economics department of Amoco Corporation in 1978. After working in Amoco’s Calgary office, he transferred to their Chicago and later Houston offices where he managed global M&A initiatives for the Amoco Production Company before returning to Toronto in 1987 to join Canadian investment dealer Midland Doherty as VP Investment Banking. In 1989 Mr. Anderson became managing director of HSBC’s Canadian investment dealer subsidiary BBN James Capel for six years, before joining investment dealer Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon Ltd as partner and managing director from 1995 to 1998.

Mr. Anderson graduated from the University of Manitoba where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Economics, in 1974, and Master of Business Administration in 1977.