About Us

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David Bryant, Chief Executive Officer
David Bryant attended undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin and received his BA in mathematics in 1998. In 2003 he relocated to Dallas and received his MBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Dallas. It was during this time he started a real estate investment venture, accumulating 25 properties in 2 years. He consulted on a number of commercial real estate financing opportunities including banks divesting assets through the mortgage crash. It is through this industry that led to an interest in financing oil, gas and later mining ventures which are large cap, long term strategic investments. In March through June 2021 David advised on the sale the former headquarters of Buyer Group International, Inc. 20 acres of land in Texas valued at over $1.5 million. David enjoys hiking in the Cascade mountains around his home in Washington.

Summer is a creative and analytical forward thinker who sees the world as simple amid complication. She appreciates taking risks, facing new challenges, and exceeding her own personal standards of greatness. Summer has exceptional interpersonal skills, can empathize, easily establish trusted relationships, and exemplifies the power of positive thinking. Summer has served as the Director of Operations for several early-stage organizations and has been responsible for the daily operations of the entire customer service department, including but not limited to: interviews, recruiting, hiring, scheduling, leading 10 managers and over 80 agents, HR development, payroll processing, timesheet adjustments, revised metrics systems, and analyzing employees and clients by identifying the department's strengths and weaknesses to improve the user experience. She developed departmental requirements and policies, created and suggested a performance-based bonus structure, predicted cost-benefit analysis for the entire operations department, as well as created a reproducible training methodology that resulted in positive retention and recognition for the company's ongoing growth.

Grant Edwards is a hands-on, results-driven executive with expertise in finance operations, SEC reporting, corporate governance, and strategic planning. Grant has been the CFO for multiple early stage companies, many of which had successful exits. These include an mining company that grew from inception to over $70 million in annual revenues, an entertainment and theater company, a durable medical equipment company, a receivable factoring business and an executive travel company. His Big 4 CPA experience includes positions with Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen. He also served as Senior Director of SEC Reporting and Corporate Controller for Shinogi & Co. (formerly Sciele Pharma) where he launched all initial accounting policies and procedures, designed to shepherd the company through a period of massive growth, from $100MM to over $500MM in annual revenue. He effectively managed a team of 32 employees and a full spectrum of corporate finance functions, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, financial reporting (internal and external) and revenue recognition.

Mike is a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) and Certified Wildlife Biologist (CWB).  He received both the top M.S. and top Ph.D. Student Award in the country by the American Society of Reclamation Sciences upon completing his graduate degrees.  He developed techniques to improve reclamation & restoration monitoring which not only improve data quality, but also reduce field time by 10-40x (depending on if handheld or drone imagery is used).  He also pioneered the use of spatially-explicit dashboards to rapidly report reclamation monitoring results, allowing for informed decision making and easy-to-interpret data.  Mike worked with 26 oil & gas companies in reporting reclamation and restoration data to the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Conservation Efforts Database prior to the 2015 Endangered Species Act listing decision of the Greater sage-grouse and was acknowledged by the USFWS for the importance of his contributions.  He has experience transitioning the reclamation monitoring and reporting techniques he developed to conservation bank monitoring.  Mike has experience developing reclamation plans which go beyond satisfying regulatory criteria towards restoring food webs and creating pollinator and wildlife habitat.  Aside from holding a PhD in Ecology, Mike has a Master’s degree in Rangeland Ecology & Watershed Management and a Graduate Minor in Statistics.  Prior to graduate school, Mike worked in documentary video with experience covering social and environmental issues.  After graduate school, he took a post-doc research position in Mississippi studying how drones can be used to monitor wildlife and then worked at a large plant nursery in New Jersey, growing and selling native plants to restore ecosystem services in suburban landscapes.  Dr. Curran has given workshops or been a presenter at over 65 conferences or symposia throughout the United States and Canada.  He is Editor of Reclamation Matters, and Associate Editor for Natural Areas Journal and Reclamation Sciences. Mike has been an ocean lifeguard since 2002 and is a member of the Southern Monmouth After-Hours Rescue Team (S.M.A.R.T.) for open water emergencies as well as a volunteer First-Responder with the Wall Community First Aid Squad. He enjoys ocean sports, road & mountain biking, the outdoors, and traveling.

Justin joins us from Hard Rock Consulting, LLC, where he worked on project Shambhala as a third party for the company's 2023 season. After recognizing the project's enormous potential, he asked to join in full-time with BYRG. He has extensive experience in structural and ore geology, as well as petrology, geostatistics, and geospatial analysis. His field experience includes geologic mapping, as well as drillhole oversight, core logging, and sample prep for geochemical analysis. BYRG will be funding Justin's Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Wyoming, where he hopes to begin working with the economic geology group on the historic New Rambler area in Summer 2024.

Through contract with Red Beryl Mining Company, Inc. Steve joins our team as the Head of Exploration. Steven is the CEO of Department of Land Transfer Information, Inc. and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board and the Vice President of Field Operations for FTF Technologies, Inc., bringing more than 28 years of direct and indirect operational management experience to the company’s mining holdings. Steven’s experience and field work in some of the most challenging mining districts in the Country has allowed FTF to expand its holdings and increase the company’s vast mineral footprint across the nation by providing precious metals properties and much needed domestic mining properties and services to tens of thousands of customers in the United States and Canada. Steven L. Cyros was born in Boston and relocated to Southern California in 1991. He is married and has two children aged 36 and 39, with whom he shares his love of the outdoors.