Clean Air Metals Inc. announced that Mr. Jim Gallagher has been appointed as permanent and full time Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Jim Gallagher has served as Executive Chair of the Company since Clean Air Metals began to trade on the TSX Venture Exchange in early 2020 and on June 2, 2023, assumed the role of interim CEO. Mr. Gallagher is a mining engineer and experienced executive who previously was CEO of North American Palladium with its principal asset being the Lac des Iles Palladium mine located approximately 90 km north of Clean Air Metals'Thunder Bay North Critical Minerals Project.

Mr. Gallagher assumed the CEO role in 2015 as the company emerged from a CCAA process and over the next 5 years led an operational and financial turn-around of the company culminating in the sale to Impala Platinum of South Africa at the end of 2019 for just under CAD 1 billion.