Morgan Lekstrom
Interim Executive Chairman & Co-Founder
Morgan Lekstrom is a seasoned mining executive and corporate strategist with over 17 years of experience building and transforming resource companies. As Chairman and Co-Founder of Streamex, he brings deep expertise in capital markets, strategic M&A, and commodities to guide the company's vision of tokenizing real-world assets.
Morgan recently served as CEO of NexMetals Mining Corp., where he led the redevelopment of critical metals projects in Botswana with backing from a US$150 million letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Previously, as President of NexGold Mining, he orchestrated a remarkable transformation through strategic deleveraging and back-to-back mergers with Blackwolf Copper and Gold, Treasury Metals, and Signal Gold, creating a near-term Canadian gold producer with a clear path to constructing two new mines.
His capital markets expertise was demonstrated through executing a $46 million non-brokered private placement, the second largest ever in Canada at the time. Morgan's operational experience spans senior technical roles at world-class operations including Freeport McMoran's Grasberg mine in Indonesia, Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, and supply chain infrastructure at G3 Grain Terminal Vancouver, Canada's largest grain terminal.
With a proven track record of delivering growth through strategic vision and disciplined execution, Morgan brings invaluable expertise in structuring complex transactions and navigating global commodity markets to advance Streamex's mission of revolutionizing asset tokenization.
Henry McPhie
CEO
Henry McPhie is a seasoned entrepreneur and visionary technologist with a strong track record of building innovative companies at the intersection of blockchain and finance. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Streamex, where he leads the company's mission to revolutionize real-world asset tokenization and bring commodities on-chain through cutting-edge blockchain solutions.
Prior to founding Streamex, Henry Founded Lynx Web3 Solutions, a blockchain incubation and software development firm that supported early-stage Web3 projects with the tools, infrastructure, and strategic guidance needed to scale. Henry was also the founder of FatCats Capital, a Solana-based NFT project that quickly rose to become the third largest NFT project in the world at the time of its launch. Under his leadership, FatCats cultivated a vibrant global community of over 100,000 members, setting new standards for value creation in the NFT space.
With a background in engineering, Henry holds a degree in Mining Engineering from McGill University. He brings a rare combination of technical acumen, product vision, and community-building expertise to every venture he leads, and remains deeply committed to advancing the adoption and utility of blockchain technology and tokenization across industries.
Donald F. Browne, C.P.A.
Director
Mr. Donald F. Browne, C.P.A. is a graduate of La Salle College, 1972, with a B.S. in accounting and later became licensed as a certified public accountant from the state of New Jersey in 1980. Mr. Browne’s career has included being employed as a divisional controller of Caddy Corporation of America and a controller for Full Line Foods, Inc.
In 1990, Mr. Browne’s career then transitioned to public accounting, a field in which he launched his own firm (which he continues to run and operate). Mr. Browne specializes in business accounting, including financial and tax reporting for businesses of several different industries and professions, concentrations in federal and state tax audits. Mr. Browne’s tax and financial expertise makes him a valuable asset to our Board of Directors.
Kevin Gopaul
Director
Kevin brings more than 25 years of global asset management and capital markets experience. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to a TSX Venture-listed company called Prospect Prediction Markets.
He recently served as Chief Investment Officer and President of REX Financial Canada, where he led institutional product strategy and cross-border expansion. Prior to joining REX Financial Canada, Kevin spent nearly 15 years at BMO Global Asset Management, where he helped architect and scale the firm’s $100 billion ETF franchise holding several senior leadership positions, including: Global Head of ETFs, Canadian CEO, Chief Investment Officer, Global Head of Quantitative Investments.
Earlier in his career, he held progressively senior roles at Barclays Global Investors, Sun Life Financial, and Scotia Capital, contributing to advancements in research, trading, portfolio management, and product development.
Anthony Marciano
Director
Anthony Marciano is a Clinical Professor of Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, a position he has held since August 2007. Professor Marciano teaches corporate finance courses to MBA students, undergraduates, and executives, and has overseen the Michael Price Student Investment Fund. He has been named to BusinessWeek's list of outstanding faculty. Prior to joining NYU Stern, he taught advanced corporate finance and M&A courses at MIT Sloan School of Management and served as a Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1994-2006. Earlier in his career, Marciano held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He earned his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and his BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Shawn Matthews
Director
Shawn Matthews is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hondius Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager. In this role, he has oversight of and responsibility for all firm investments. Mr. Matthews has been actively investing in global markets for over 30 years, with the majority of his career focused on trading across asset classes.
Prior to founding Hondius Capital Management, Mr. Matthews served as Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. from 2009 through April 2018. Before becoming CEO, he held a number of senior investment leadership roles at Cantor Fitzgerald, including Head of Capital Markets and Head of Mortgage Trading. Earlier in his career, Mr. Matthews worked as a fixed income derivatives trader, traded privatization certificates in Eastern Europe, and later founded both an equity-focused hedge fund, Alchemist Capital Management, and a fixed income broker-dealer, West Side Capital.
Mr. Matthews holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Fairfield University and an MBA from Hofstra University.