Leadership

Executive Team

Robin Bienenstock

  • Robin Bienenstock joined RCF in 2022 as a Consultant. She is an investor and independent public company director with over 25 years of blue-chip experience with global companies. Ms. Bienenstock was an investment partner for five years in long/short funds before which she was a Senior Analyst at Sanford Bernstein, an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, and an analyst at SG Warburg. Robin serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of directors at Cogeco Communications, and Chair of the Board of Norzinc. She has a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the SDA Bocconi, and was a candidate at the University of Toronto. She speaks Italian and French.

Jim Zadra

  • Jim Zadra, CPA, CA, MBA, is a finance executive and corporate director with over 13 years of CFO experience. He has led global teams in multinational companies in the IT and mining industries, including an intermediate gold and silver producer listed on the TSX and NYSE American. Mr. Zadra has a strong focus on corporate development, strategic planning, and corporate finance, having completed over $200M in debt and equity financings and played a key role in eight M&A transactions. He began his career with Deloitte and gained capital markets experience in a leading Canadian investment bank. Jim holds a B. Comm from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Queen's University.

Brian Ferrey

  • Brian Ferrey joined New Moly in 2025 and brings a unique combination of experience across investment banking, private equity, and corporate development and strategy in the mining sector. Previously, Brian was Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy of Nova Royalty, a copper focused royalty company, which was sold for $202 million in December 2023. Before Nova, Brian held roles in investment banking at UBS and CIBC and in private equity at Denham Capital, all specializing in the mining sector. He has been involved in over $10 billion in M&A and capital raising transaction as an advisor and principal investor. Brian holds an H.B.A. in business administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, where he graduated as an Ivey Scholar (Summa Cum Laude).

Shane Uren

  • Shane Uren has significant experience in the management of environmental assessments and permitting of mining projects in British Columbia and Canada; including Galore Creek Mine, Schaft Creek Project, Kitsault Mine, Mount Milligan Mine, Red Chris Mine, Ekati Diamond Mine, Prairie Creek. Mr. Uren has held management, technical advisory and contractor positions with Copper Fox Metals, Avanti Kitsault Mine Ltd, Atrum Coal, Hanstone Gold, Carmax Mining and Goldwedge Mines. As part of Mr. Uren’s role in project permitting and development, Mr. Uren has supported engagement with Indigenous groups leading to agreements for exploration, environmental stewardship and economic benefits. Mr. Uren is a Registered Professional Biologist in British Columbia with a Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Chris Kelly

  • Chris is a Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) with over 12 years of international experience in the construction industry. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), he specializes in commercial and project management services for junior mining companies and private clients. Chris has worked across various sectors, including natural resources and infrastructure, in Canada, the UK, and Singapore. His expertise spans estimating, financial modelling, procurement, project controls, contracts administration, and claims management, with a strong background in EPCM and contractor organizations. 

Board of Directors

Robin Bienenstock

  • Robin Bienenstock joined RCF in 2022 as a Consultant. She is an investor and independent public company director with over 25 years of blue-chip experience with global companies. Ms. Bienenstock was an investment partner for five years in long/short funds before which she was a Senior Analyst at Sanford Bernstein, an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, and an analyst at SG Warburg. Robin serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of directors at Cogeco Communications, and Chair of the Board of Norzinc. She has a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the SDA Bocconi, and was a candidate at the University of Toronto. She speaks Italian and French.

Lawrence Haber

  • Lawrence (Lorie) Haber has had a diverse career in the financial industry, law and the capital markets, and in governance and executive management roles – as a senior executive with National Bank Financial and DundeeWealth, as a securities lawyer and partner of Toronto law firm Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, as a corporate board member of several public and private companies, as the CEO of TSX listed Benev Capital Corp (now Diversified Royalty Corp), and as an adviser to the Ontario Securities commission (OSC) and to the Ontario Government on several policy projects relating to the capital markets and the financial industry. Mr. Haber was a Commissioner of the OSC between 2018 and 2022 and served as Lead Director of the OSC Board from 2019 to 2022. He currently serves as a director of Eco Oro Minerals Corp., a Canadian exchange listed public mining company, and is a member of the Advisory Council of Westcourt Capital ULC, a Canadian based portfolio manager that constructs diversified portfolios of alternative investments for ultra high net worth clients. He is also currently a director of Norzinc Ltd., a Canadian private company with a zinc and silver mine project in the Northwest Territories. Mr. Haber retired as a director and Board Chair of Diversified Royalty Corp in early 2021 after 10 years in that role. Mr. Haber taught a course on complex corporate transactions for several years as an Adjunct Professor in the Osgoode Hall Law School LL.M Program. Mr. Haber holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Toronto and an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.

Steve Axcell

  • Steve Axcell is an executive leader with 44 years of experience with strengths in mining operations management and project management execution, including process plant design and construction management; with industry expertise in mining and minerals, pharmaceutical, and hydrocarbon projects. He has vast experience in international design and construction projects.  Experience includes management and oversight of large and small projects, complex process facilities in both green-fields and retro-fit (brown fields) environments. Steve holds a BSc (Engineering) Minerals Processing from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Bruce D. Hansen

  • Bruce D. Hansen was previously the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of General Moly since January 2007 and assumed the additional role of Chief Financial Officer in May 2017. In addition, he was previously Senior Vice President, Operations Services and Development, at Newmont Mining Corporation. His management roles at Newmont included serving as Chief Financial Officer and as Vice President of Project Development. Prior to Newmont, Mr. Hansen was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Directors for ASA Gold and Precious Metals Limited, a closed-end investment fund and one of the oldest investment management firms focused on precious metals and mining companies, and Energy Fuels Inc., a U.S.-based integrated producer of uranium traded on the NYSE American.

    Mr. Hansen has a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of New Mexico.

Clint Coghill

  • Clint Coghill co-founded Backstop Solutions Group in 2003 as the Founding Chairman and has helped guide the company as Chairman of the Board for the last 15 years. Clint now leads the Backstop Executive Team as CEO. Prior to joining Backstop in an executive role, Clint was CIO of Coghill Capital Management, a successful Chicago-based hedge fund management company he started in 1995. Among his other professional pursuits, Clint was the Founding Chairman of NFTE Chicago’s Regional Advisory Board, which provides entrepreneurship programs to young people from low-income communities and reaches more than 2,000 youth per year. He is also the founder of two charitable Organizations, the Coghill Family Foundation and the Environmental Impact Initiative. Clint received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Arizona, and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the London Business School.

James McClements

  • Mr. McClements is a co-founder of Resource Capital Funds Management LLC (RCF), a global alternative investment firm, and as Managing Partner has led its strategic direction, growth, and expansion since its founding in 1998. He pioneered the mining-focused private equity space. He has served on several RCF-portfolio company boards, and currently serves on the boards of Ausenco Pty Ltd. and Global Advanced Materials Pty Ltd. In addition, Mr. McClements has been on the board of Mineral Resources Ltd (MinRes) since 2015 and became Non-Executive Chairman in 2022. He is a current board member and former Acting Chair of the WA Museum Foundation. Mr. McClements holds an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Western Australia and has worked with BHP Group LTD, Standard Chartered Bank and N.M. Rothschild & Sons.