Leadership & Board
Senior Leadership
Travis Naugle founded Falcon Copper Corp. and serves as Executive Chairman and Director.
He has executed agreements with major mining companies in the Western United States, Alaska and abroad.
B.S. Mining Engineering; MBA, Chicago Booth. Licensed Professional Engineer.
Ryan Moss serves as a Director and CEO of Falcon Copper Corp.
Ryan is a former Chief Financial Officer of Lucid Energy Group, a former Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, and a former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. His career spans capital markets, natural-resources finance, and corporate leadership across energy and infrastructure sectors.
BBA Finance, University of Texas at Austin; MBA, Columbia Business School.
Rick Gittleman is President of Operations at Falcon Copper.
Rick is a former Senior Vice President of Freeport Africa and a member of the senior management team at Tenke Fungurume. He also held senior management roles within the copper group at Glencore.
His work in the African Copperbelt has been legal, commercial and operational.
A.B., Brown University; J.D., American University, Washington College of Law
Eric Best is Executive Vice President, Smelting & Refining of Falcon Copper.
Eric is a former Chief Executive Officer of Glencore's Mutanda Mining who held senior roles at Freeport's Tenke Fungurume, as General Manager of Barrick Gold's Cortez District, and as Chief Operating Officer of the Mineral Park mine in Arizona.
He leads development and construction of Falcon's planned U.S. copper smelting and refining facility.
Mike Ciricillo is Executive Vice President, Operations of Falcon Copper.
Mike was General Manager of Freeport's Miami Smelter and smelter manager at Freeport's Chino Smelter, and led Glencore's worldwide copper smelting and refining as Head of Global Copper Production, across Noranda, ISA/GT and flash-furnace technologies.
He also served as President of Freeport-McMoRan Africa (Tenke Fungurume) and Chief Executive Officer of Nevada Copper.
Phillip Nickerson is Vice President of Exploration at Falcon Copper.
Phillip is a former U.S. Exploration Manager at Rio Tinto and a former senior geologist at EMX Royalty Corp, with a career focused on copper and critical-minerals exploration in North America.
M.S. and Ph.D. in Geosciences. Licensed Professional Geologist.
Rich Leveille is Chief Prospector of Falcon Copper.
Rich is a former Senior Vice President of Exploration at Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world's largest copper producers. He previously held exploration roles at AMAX, Kennecott, Rio Tinto and Phelps Dodge in the Americas and elsewhere.
B.S. and M.S. in Geology.
Board of Directors
Founder of Falcon Copper. He has executed agreements with major mining companies in the Western United States, Alaska and abroad. B.S. Mining Engineering; MBA, Chicago Booth. Licensed Professional Engineer.
Ryan serves as CEO of Falcon Copper Corp. He is a former Chief Financial Officer of Lucid Energy Group, a former Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, and a former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. BBA Finance, University of Texas at Austin; MBA, Columbia Business School.
Current Chief Financial Officer of a private silver and base-metals producer with South American assets. Former CFO of Novo Resources Corp (TSX/ASX: NVO). Career spanning resource-company finance, capital markets, and corporate governance. BCom.