James Walker

James Walker is the Chief Executive Officer and director of Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.. Mr. Walker has over fifteen years of engineering project management experience across various industries, such as construction, mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineering. Mr. Walker was the head of company strategy for Ares Strategic Mining, primarily responsible for the construction of plants, purchases of land, operations, marketing, financing, safety regulation compliance, and shareholder relations. Prior to joining Ares, from 2013 to 2016, Mr. Walker was an engineering project manager for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (the “Ministry of Defence”). While there, he was responsible for infrastructure projects and worked in each stage of the nuclear product life cycle, from concept to decommissioning. At the Ministry of Defence, Mr. Walker was primarily engaged in design, modelling, rigs, testing, and problem shooting. He also managed multidisciplinary teams involving engineers, managers, contractors and finance and commercial personnel, and served as the project lead and manager for the building of a nuclear material reclamation plant, and as the engineering manager for constructing factories and facilities designed to manufacture reactor cores. Between 2012 and 2013, Mr. Walker worked as a nuclear physicist at Rolls-Royce, leading a project to model various configurations of Rolls-Royce’s Zero-Power reactor using probabilistic physics software to digitally replicate real-world behavior and determine program accuracy margins. Prior to this role, Mr. Walker served as a mechanical engineer and a nuclear engineer at the Ministry of Defence.

Mr. Walker holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, a Master of Science degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Exeter, and a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from Cranfield University. He is also a Chartered Physicist with the Institute of Physics (CPhys), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IMechE, a Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and was registered as a Project Manager with APM in 2015. We believe that Mr. Walker is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company because of his extensive experience within the nuclear industry and with public markets and the operation of public and private companies.