Without Briscoe there wouldn't be LBSR and there wouldn't be a mining stock which has world class potential trading at 0.045. You try and find a junior with the same potential as this one.
I'm not sure you understand how much it costs to pay a "competent" CFO these days. If Briscoe hired one and agreed to pay him $250,000/year or so, then there would be squawking about wasting money paying another executive and where's the money comeing from etc.