Brad Juneau currently serves as a Director of Contango Silver & Gold, Inc. and has served as a Director of Talos Energy Inc. since May 2018, where he is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Safety, Sustainability, and Corporate Responsibility Committee. Mr. Juneau is the sole manager of Juneau Exploration, a private prospect generation and exploration company that he established in 1998 that has participated in and managed oil and gas projects as well as gold exploration and development.
Mr. Juneau has more than 40 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and development, metals development, and other energy ventures. He joined Zilkha Energy in 1987 as Vice President of Operations and became Senior Vice President of Exploration, building and leading the in-house team that generated its offshore Gulf of Mexico prospects until the company was sold to Sonat for $1.5 billion in 1998. In 1999, he and Ken Peak formed Contango Oil and Gas, whose stock price grew from $0.20 to over $75 per share before the company merged in 2013. In 2008, Juneau Exploration leased approximately 600,000 acres in eastern interior Alaska for gold exploration, leading to the 2009 discovery of the Man Choh mine. The project was later spun out as Contango Ore, and Man Choh, the first hard rock gold mine developed in Alaska in over 14 years, began production in 2024.
Through Juneau Exploration, Mr. Juneau is managing the ultra-deep Highlander oil and gas project in South Louisiana and is partnered with Armstrong Oil and Gas on an exploration project in West Harrison Bay on Alaska’s North Slope. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Stone Energy from 2017 until its 2018 merger with Talos Energy. Mr. Juneau holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University. His extensive experience in exploration, mergers and acquisitions, and public company governance provides valuable insight into project evaluation, capital allocation, and strategic growth.