One scenario has James taking on the helm at Denison Mines, a company in almost as much trouble as Falconbridge was when James came in and steer ed it back o nto a profitable course. That bit of idle gossip seemed to have gained credence on reports that James was seen having lunch at an out-of-the-way Toronto restaur ant with Denison Chairman Helen Roman-Barber recently.
Denison’s corporate culture with Roman-Barber as chairman must certainly be more inviting than it might have been under founder Stephen B. Roman, an eminent ly successful but demonstrably despotic CEO. Denison is also close to selling of f its oil and gas interests and returning to its roots as a mining company. Its current chief of staff, Jake Fowler, is well past the normal retirement age and Helen Roman-Barber, Stephen Roman’s daughter and successor at Denison, must sure ly covet someone with James’s credentials considering her own lack of mining exp erience. With Denison’s stock price in the dumper, a lot of James’s compensation could presumably be in the form of stock options, too.
When James took on Falconbridge, he managed to weather the economic troubles of the mid-1980s until nickel prices took off and made him an overnight success
The same could easily happen with uranium.
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