NextSource Materials

Hanré Rossouw – President & Chief Executive Officer

Hanré Rossouw was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of NextSource effective November 1, 2024 and joined the Board as a Director from September 1, 2024. Hanré has extensive experience in the global natural resources industry gained over the last 25 years and joined NextSource from Sasol Limited where he was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Prior to Sasol he was the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Royal Bafokeng Platinum and a portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management. He was also previously the Chief Financial Officer of Xstrata Alloys and held a number of other senior roles at Xstrata plc that involved extensive strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business optimisation and capital markets experience. He began his career as graduate engineer at Anglo American plc, and he later also worked for Accenture and De Beers Group.

Jaco Crouse – Chief Financial Officer

Mr Crouse joins NextSource from the position of CFO and Executive Director of Amaroq Minerals and brings a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital and debt markets, financial reporting and the development and execution of business strategies in listed global natural resources companies over more than 20 years.
Mr Crouse previously served as CFO at Metals Acquisition Corp, where completed the purchase of the CSA copper mine in Australia from Glencore, and as CFO at TSX listed Detour Gold Corporation. Mr Crouse was a former Chief Financial Officer and one of the founding members at Triple Flag Mining, a streaming and royalty company, was instrumental in the turnaround of Barrick Gold Corporation in 2015 as VP Business Optimization and worked in the Nickel Trading division at Glencore in Baar Switzerland as Asset Manager. He held various positions within Xstrata between December 2002 to November 2013, latterly as General Manager of Business Optimisation in the Nickel Division.
Jaco studied Accounting Sciences at the University of South Africa and a qualified Chartered Accountant in Ontario (CPA, CA) and South Africa (CA(SA)). He is also a registered Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Brent Nykoliation, B.Com – Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Affairs

Mr. Nykoliation has been part of the executive management team at NextSource Materials since joining the Company in 2007 and oversees all the strategic corporate initiatives and development with offtake partners for the Company. He brings over 20 years of management experience, having held senior marketing and strategic development positions with several Fortune 500 corporations in Canada, notably Nestlé, Home Depot and Whirlpool.

Mr. Nykoliation holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours degree from Queen’s University.

Craig Scherba, P. Geo. – Director and Chief Development Officer

Mr. Scherba was appointed President and CEO in September 2012 and has been a director since January 2010 when he served as Vice President, Exploration of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Scherba was a managing partner for six years with Taiga Consultants Ltd., a mining exploration consulting company. Mr. Scherba has been a professional geologist (P. Geo.) since 2000, and his expertise includes supervising large Canadian and international mineral resource exploration programs.

Mr. Scherba was an integral member of the exploration team that developed Nevsun Resources’ high grade gold, copper and zinc Bisha project in Eritrea. Mr. Scherba served as the NextSource’s Country and Exploration Manager in Madagascar during its initial exploration stage, discovering both the Molo Graphite and the Green Giant Vanadium deposits. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science after-degree in Geology from the University of Alberta.