Mr. Yu is a serial and leading U.S. advanced nuclear technology entrepreneur with 20 years of capital markets experience. He is a private investor in a multitude of companies and has advised a magnitude of company executives with corporate advisory services such as capital funding, mergers & acquisitions, structured financing, corporate restructuring, and other business development services geared at taking these companies to the next level. He is a self taught and private self investor, his relentless passion for international business has helped him develop key, strategic and valuable relationships throughout the world.

Mr. Yu leads the corporate structuring, capital financings, executive level recruitment, governmental relationships and international brand growth of NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. Previously, Mr. Yu worked as an Analyst part of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in New York City.

Mr. Yu is the founder and chairman of NANO Nuclear Energy Inc., a vertically integrated advanced portable microreactor technology company publicly listed on the NASDAQ Exchange. Under his leadership, NANO Nuclear Energy acquired one of the highest technology readiness level (TRL) and patented advanced microreactors in development, reached over $3 BILLION Market Capitalization in value, raised over $600 MILLION to date and became Wall Street’s Cinderella story of 2024 as the #1 Top IPO Performer. In 2021, Mr. Yu was honored as one of The Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in business. He is an active Philanthropist and the founder of a Non-Profit Organization that helps nurture New York City kids through sports and education. Mr. Yu worked and continued his studies at Columbia University after earning a BA in Psychology from City College of New York.

Oscar Leandro is an accomplished investment professional and entrepreneur with a robust track record in alternative investments and energy development. With a global perspective honed through diverse international experiences, Oscar brings a wealth of expertise in frontier market investments, corporate finance, and technology-driven ventures.

Oscar served as a Principal at Green Swan Capital, an alternative investment firm, focusing on innovative gas flaring reduction projects in frontier markets. His strategic vision and leadership have been instrumental in sourcing investment opportunities across Latin America. He has also held pivotal roles in financial advisory at Deloitte Consulting, contributing to major M&A transactions and valuations across various industries, and as a Summer Fellow at KAUST Investment Management Company, where he developed special situations investment strategies for one of the world’s largest endowments.

Oscar holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in International Studies from The Wharton School and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Awarded a prestigious merit-based fellowship, he conducted his master's thesis on the social and environmental impacts of electric vehicle supply chains. He led healthcare consulting projects in East Africa for the Wharton Global Health Volunteers and served as president of the Wharton Latin American Student Association. His international experiences are complemented by summer exchanges at the London School of Economics, Peking University, and Sciences Po Paris. Oscar is a Westerwelle Foundation Young Founder, a distinction awarded to outstanding entrepreneurs from emerging markets, and he earned a Global Competitiveness Leadership certificate from Georgetown University as part of a fellowship sponsored by Georgetown’s Latin American Board.

Matt has over 10 years of experience in accounting, equity research and investor relations at both public and private companies. He began his career at Deloitte, where he audited the financial statements and internal controls of various public and private clients across various industries. Matt served as an equity research analyst at investment banks H.C. Wainwright and Cowen and Company, where he covered an aggregate portfolio of approximately 40 companies across both firms, creating complex financial models and analyzing a wide range of macroeconomic and industry data and trends. He later served as Manager of Investor Relations at Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), a Nasdaq-listed global capital equipment provider, where he led the investor relations function. At Veeco, he successfully developed an in-house investor targeting program and was instrumental in attracting investment from multiple ideal long-only long-term oriented investors who initiated substantial positions in the company.

Matt earned his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license in 2017 and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Science in Taxation from Hofstra University where he received the FEI Top Accounting Student award.

Mr. Vonglis served as the Senate-confirmed Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy from 2017 to 2019. As CFO, John oversaw all financial matters for the Department of Energy. He was also appointed by the President as Acting Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a federal agency focused on advancing early-stage, high-potential, high-impact energy technologies while minimizing risk to taxpayers.

Prior to his tenure at the Department of Energy, John held several key roles at the Department of Defense from 2002 to 2009, initially as Director of Management Initiatives for the Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness (P&R) and lastly as Acting Assistant Secretary (CFO) of the U.S. Air Force, where he also served as the first Chief Management Officer, performing the duties of the Under Secretary.

John’s private sector experience includes senior financial and operational roles at prominent advisory, aerospace/defense, financial services, and high-technology firms, such as Grumman Aerospace, The First Boston Corporation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IBM. Additionally, John is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has advised the Army Cyber Institute at West Point. He holds a B.S. and M.B.A. from Fordham University and a Master’s in International Public Policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Dr. Norato has over 25 years of experience in chemical separations technologies involving used nuclear fuel and radioactive wasteprocessing, as well as experience in commercial nuclear industry regulation and nuclear facility decommissioning. His broad nuclear energy related background includes leadership positions at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). 

Dr. Norato recently retired from INL, where he served as a Senior Advisor for Research Operations and Strategic Projects, after serving four years as Division Director for Fuel Cycle Science & Technology. His primary focus been the research and development of advanced technologies for nuclear fuel cycle and used nuclear fuel management, as well as other chemical and physical separations applications. 

At DOE-EM, he served as Director of the Office of Operations and Processes, as well as Acting Director of the Office of Major Construction and Modifications where he provided leadership and developed mission strategies, policy, and guidance for complex-wide engineering operations and processes, as well as to major construction projects and facility modifications to support EM’s mission. His NRC experience spanned the spectrum from lead chemical safety reviewer for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility license application, to component engineering reviews for new BWRs, to contract management, to nuclear materials facility decommissioning. Dr. Norato has extensive knowledge of the entire nuclear fuel cycle as well as experience in the commercial regulatory regime and all aspects of licensing, constructing, and regulating nuclear fuel cycle facilities, He also has broad knowledge of fuel cycle research development and demonstration at all scales and TRL levels. Dr. Norato holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Syracuse University.

Mr. Tiktinsky has been an Senior Nuclear Regulatory Licensing Specialist and advisor to some of the most well known advanced nuclear technology companies in the nation. In this role, he assisted current and new applicants and licensees in licensing nuclear fuel cycle and medical isotopes facilities regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Mr. Tiktinsky previously had 39 years of licensing and project management experience working for the NRC. He has extensive knowledge of the commercial regulatory regime and all aspects of licensing, constructing, and regulating nuclear fuel cycle and medical isotopes facilities. His experience and knowledge can benefit NRC applicants and licensees seeking to successfully navigate the NRC fuel cycle related licensing process in an effective and efficient manner.

Mr. Tiktinsky has extensive knowledge in implementing review guidance from NUREG-1520, the Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License Applications. His 39-year NRC career included Project Management of complicated fuel cycle facility licensing actions including commercial and government sponsored activities, and medical isotope facilities. It also included evaluations of security aspects of radioactive material facilities after the attacks of 9/11/01, certification of radioactive material transportation packages, and high-level nuclear waste disposal.

Mr. Tiktinsky has a B.S. degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Massimiliano Fratoni is Xenel Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). He received a Laurea in Nuclear Engineering from Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy), and a MSc and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Nuclear Engineering Department at UCB, he held a Research Scientist position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a faculty position at The Pennsylvania State University.

Prof. Fratoni’s main research interests are in sustainable nuclear energy through advanced reactors and advanced fuel cycles. His research is focused on developing innovative engineering solutions that will facilitate the widespread deployment and adoption of advanced nuclear energy technologies. Prof. Fratoni is author of more than 200 publications in the areas of advanced reactors and advanced fuel cycles. He received the American Nuclear Society Early Career Reactor Physicist Award (2018) and the Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology Medal (2024).

Professor and Former Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering Department in UC Berkeley. Prof. Hosemann’s career started at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben in Austria where he received his Ph.D. and MS degree in Material Science. He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2005 as a graduate research assistant and continued as a Post doc from 2008-2010 before joining UC Berkeley’s nuclear engineering department.

Prof. Hosemann had numerous research stays at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research features experimental material science for extreme environments, especially nuclear environments. His focus is on structural materials used for nuclear components (fission, fusion, spallation, etc.) while developing a basic understanding of the materials degradation processes and resulting consequences to engineering application.