Dev is an experienced CEO and has a wealth of experience in growing resource, mining exploration and energy companies. Northern Miner Magazine named Dev ‘Mining Person of the Year 2013’ and Finance Monthly awarded him with their ‘Deal Maker of the Year 2013’ award. As part of the Fission team, Dev has won the Mining Journal Excellence Award 2015 for Exploration. He is currently CEO of Fission 3.0 Corp and Fission Uranium Corp which made the shallow depth, high-grade uranium discovery at PLS.
Dev Randhawa founded Strathmore Minerals Corp. in 1996 and remained CEO until September 2008. In 2007, Mr Randhawa spun Fission Energy Corp. out of Strathmore to focus on uranium exploration in Saskatchewan. He remained as CEO and Chairman until the company sold its Waterbury Lake discovery and a large selection of its assets to Denison Mines in 2013. Fission Uranium Corp. was created and utilised the remaining Fission Energy assets as part of the agreement with Denison.
In 2011 Fission Energy was named a TSX Venture 50(r) Company. “The TSX Venture 50(r) are the top 10 companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, in each of the five major industry sectors mining, oil & gas, technology & life sciences, diversified industries and clean technology based on a ranking formula with equal weighting given to return on investment, market cap growth, trading volume and analyst coverage. All data was as of December 31, 2010.”
Most recently, Dev negotiated a subscription and off take agreement with CGN Mining that, in January 2016, resulted in CGN Mining investing $82 million in Fission at a premium to the stock price.
Dev received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with honours from Trinity Western College of Langley, British Columbia in 1983 and received his Master in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1985.
Dev regularly shares his thoughts on the industry in articles on his personal website Dev Randhawa and on Twitter and LinkedIn