This was subject to the successful completion of customary regulatory due diligence and onboarding requirements, including the provision of all information and documentation reasonably required by the company and its Aquis Corporate Adviser, Allenby Capital Limited.
Secretary Pompeo served as the 70th US 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 US Government, he served three terms as a Member of the US House of Representatives for Kansas’ 4th District from 2011 to 2017. After beginning his career as an officer in the US 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 US Government provides Reveille with an exceptional degree of 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 US private-equity firm.
He is also a director of VEON Ltd., a global digital operator with a market capitalisation of approximately US$4.8 billion. Secretary Pompeo is a Non-Executive Director of ACG Metals Limited, a London-listed copper producer with an approximately US$600 million market capitalisation. He also serves as a director of Nasdaq-listed digital-risk intelligence company Cyabra, Inc.
As Non-Executive Chairman, Secretary Pompeo’s mandate will be to provide 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, US institutional investors, potential US 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. The appointment further reinforces the company’s long-term commitment to Italy.
Secretary Pompeo’s appointment is for an initial term of three years, subject to the company’s articles of association, applicable law, and shareholder re-election where required. In connection with his appointment, the company will issue Secretary Pompeo options to acquire 7 000 000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the company. The grant and issue of the options is subject to his formal appointment to the Board.
The options will be fully vested and immediately exercisable upon grant at an exercise price equal to a fair market value of the ordinary shares, being the closing middle-market price on Aquis Growth Market on 5 October 2026 of £0.0725 (7.25 pence). The options will remain exercisable until the third anniversary of Secretary Pompeo’s appointment to the Board and will be governed by an option agreement.
Following Secretary Pompeo’s appointment as Non-Executive Chairman, Andrea Cattaneo has transitioned from his role as Chairman to that of Non-Executive Deputy Chairman. Mr Cattaneo is the Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Energy Ltd., the company’s largest shareholder.