Nick Clarke
Founder & Chairman
Nick is the Founder and Chairman of the Curzon group of companies. Nick is a proven successful builder of businesses with a focus in Mining & Energy. He has built business worldwide developing relations in Russia, China & Africa.
Nick graduated from the Camborne School of Mines (Exeter University) with a BSc Hons Mining 2.1. After graduating from Camborne, Nick spent 3 years as an engineer for Schlumberger. He then transitioned to oil trading for 7 years and after spearheading his business (Quantum Energy) to becoming the largest independent gas trading and marketing company, Nick exited the market in 2003 and sold all shareholdings to Macquarie Bank. Nick then formed a carbon trading business Carbon Resource management (CRM) which became the largest trader in the world. He sold the company to Vitol in 2010.
Since then, Nick has been building Curzon Uranium which is the number 2 or 3 trader in the world with sales in excess of 500M USD per annum. Clarke is today the major shareholder of Curzon and sees his mission to help the nuclear renaissance decarbonise the world.