Durango, Colorado Dec 9, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Magna Petra Corp., the leading lunar resource extraction company, announces the appointment of Christopher Messina to the role of President and Head of Market Development. A resources and energy operator, Magna Petra is pioneering the collection and return of critical materials from the lunar surface which are essential to the future of fusion energy generation, AI and quantum computing, led and advised by a team of experienced deep-tech and spaceflight executives. The appointment of Mr. Messina highlights the important global role that lunar materials – particularly Helium-3 – will play in the coming decades of truly clean, emissions free and waste-free fusion energy infrastructure buildout and the exponentially expanding scale of operation of AI capacity, quantum computing and advanced materials innovations.
Mr. Messina is an executive and entrepreneur with deep, international experience in the global capital markets, private equity, commodities and technology sectors. Over his 30-year career as an investment banker, entrepreneur and strategist, he has advised multiple global exchanges, private equity firms, corporations and sovereign wealth funds. His areas of expertise include investment product structuring, exchange-traded and OTC derivatives markets, advanced data analytics and complex commodity transactions.
He most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of the free world’s largest rare earths mine, Tanbreez, leading the company to its Mining Exploitation License in Greenland and ultimately selling the company in a highly successful exit in June 2024. Mr. Messina has advised the US, Greenland, Italian and EU governments on critical minerals supply chains, international competitiveness and Arctic security. Earlier in his career, he was a strategic innovation executive at firms including ICAP plc, McKinsey & Company, the CME Group and Goldman Sachs.
“I have been fortunate in my career to work with a few truly innovative companies. I have always looked over the horizon, to see what’s coming long before it becomes obvious. Joining Magna Petra, a team whose gaze is shifted far above the horizon to lunar resources, is the culmination of a career building businesses and value in hypercompetitive markets. Nothing has ever excited me more than the opportunity to build world-changing capacity for clean fusion energy and to remove the operational limits on quantum computing – never mind the myriad applications still to come once we deliver a steady, reliable supply of He-3 to earth and lunar economies. It is wonderful to be part of a mission whose success will transform human life and the environment for all people, everywhere.”
“We are truly fortunate to welcome Christopher to the Magna Petra leadership team”, commented Jeffrey Max, CEO. “His experience in critical minerals supply chains, structured finance and commodity markets will be foundational in establishing the demand and delivery side of this exciting new energy and industrial resource pipeline. His strategic government relationships in the US, EU and the Gulf are a terrific bonus.”
In addition to authoring Messina’s Federal Budget, a comprehensive treatise on the US Federal budget, he is a contributing author to Shari'ah Compliant Private Equity: A Primer for the Executive (Euromoney Books, 2010).
Christopher sits on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation, dedicated to providing support to the Air Force’s Special Operations community and their families. He can be reached at: christopher@magnapetra.com.
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