Ed Bugos is a partner at TDV and its Senior Analyst. Starting his career on Howe Street in the late eighties and tutoring under one of the greatest exploration analysts on the west coast, Ed cut his teeth on the discovery of diamond mines in the Northwest Territories during the early to mid nineties, and went on to become a futures broker in the late nineties. In 2001 Ed launched “The Goldenbar Report,” an online gold & currency digest that became renown for its macro analysis and market forecasts: starting with the collapse of the tech bubble and subsequent lost decade in stock investing, as well as the collapse of the housing bubble, strong dollar policy, and a bull market in gold that would hit $2000 by 2013.

Ed is a lifelong student of financial markets and economics. He has created a niche by applying the Austrian School’s economic theories to financial markets in order to design an investment strategy that can help investors preserve their wealth from the confiscatory boom-bust and inflation policies of the central bank. After the 2008 economic crisis, Ed’s and Jeff’s destinies collided to found The Dollar Vigilante newsletter. Ed is widely respected as one of the best precious metals & mining analysts in the world and one of a handful incorporating (Austrian) economic theory.

G. Edward Griffin is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, author, lecturer, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, which promotes theories about the motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System.

Mike Maloney is host of the smash hit video series, Hidden Secrets of Money; former Rich Dad/Poor Dad advisor; author of the best-selling precious metals book, Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver, and founder of GoldSilver.com. For more than a decade, Mike’s travelled the world sharing his economic insights with audiences from Hong Kong to Rome and from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

A life-long inventor and serial entrepreneur, by age 23, Mike had already founded sales firm Michael Maloney & Associates, growing it to five employees and two branch offices. He went on to become a manufacturer of high-end stereo equipment, where his designs won numerous awards, including selection in 1992 as one of only five permanent exhibits for display at the opening of the 20th century design wing of the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the world’s greatest design museum.

“That’s about the time I had my first up close and personal encounter with economic cycles,” Mike says.By 1992, the U.S. economy was in recession, and the market for luxury audio equipment had quickly dried up. To make matters worse, a real estate bubble had burst, and the home Mike then owned dropped 60 percent in value.

Still he managed to grow his business and in 1998 launched The Home Entertainment Show (T.H.E. Show) which is still one of the most respected high-end audio trade shows today.

In 1999 a professional financial planner had been hired to manage his family’s estate and the results were disastrous. For two years Mike watched the value of his family’s investment portfolio plummet, so he fired the financial planner, took control of the investments, and began to educate himself on investing.

“I soaked up the information like a sponge,” Mike recalls. “I studied every evening for five or six hours, and all day long on weekends.” Delving into financial markets, U.S. and global economics, Mike discovered a passion for monetary history, devouring dozens of books and countless of web pages. He discovered that the same economic patterns, or cycles, kept repeating over and over throughout history, from ancient times to modern day.

In 2002 to Mike discovered that gold and silver were incredibly undervalued and started buying.

In 2004, Mike met famed author and financial educator Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame. Robert encouraged Mike to share his understanding of monetary history, economics, and recurring financial cycles with others, so that they, too, would have the ability to secure their wealth and their families’ futures against the increasingly unstable stock markets and financial system.

In 2005 Mike founded GoldSilver.com, began writing his book, and started speaking at investment seminars all over the world to audiences as large as 30,000 people.

“For 2,400 years, as people have lost faith in fiat currencies; they have turned to real money in the form of gold and silver,” Mike says. “Today, with global debt spiraling and governments increasingly manipulating currencies and taxing savers, the stage is set for a modern ‘gold rush’ to the safe haven of precious metals just when supplies of those metals are precariously low. The opportunity for those who position themselves in precious metals ahead of the crowd is like none we will see again in our lifetimes.”

Anarcho-Capitalist. Libertarian. Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks. Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast. Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and cryptocurrency conferences including his own, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business. Jeff also posts exclusive content daily to the new blockchain based social media network, Steemit.

David Morgan is a precious metals aficionado armed with degrees in finance and engineering, he created TheMorganReport.com website and originated The Morgan Report, a monthly that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems, and the key reasons for investing in the Resource Sector.

David considers himself a big-picture macroeconomist whose main job is education—educating people about honest money and the benefits of a sound financial system.

Collin is a private investor with a highly successful investment background in the mining and energy sectors. Collin is well connected in the capital markets and boasts an extensive background in project finance & corporate development. He founded Palisade Global Investments Ltd. in early 2013 with the goal of investing in and backing undervalued junior mining companies. He is also the host of Palisade Radio, the fastest growing radio show in junior mining.

Sam came of age as a Crusader for American Freedom. He’s fought taxation, Echelon, the Fed, the TSA and California gun laws. He worked for change, donated time and money, filed lawsuits, campaigned in the snows of New Hampshire, protested injustice…and all he’s got to show for it is an impressive arrest record.

He’s much better now, and doesn’t try to convince anyone of anything.

Today Sam lives a free life with time and resources at his disposal. He specializes in creating value, avoiding taxes, and working around the state. He also leads a Burning Man camp and won’t argue over the internet.

Tim Picciott is a Certified Financial Planner™ and President of FocalPoint Wealth Management and soon to be launched Crypto Wealth Advisors LLC. He also runs libertarianadvisor.com, a site dedicated to exposing the current financial system with: A bias toward Liberty. Tim also authored a book on this subject entitled “How it’s Rigged – The Economy”. His wealth management firm specializes: in advanced estate planning techniques, charitable giving strategies, self-directed IRA’s (Crypto IRA’s) and retirement income strategies. Tim lives in Phoenix AZ, where you can find him as a frequent contributor to Freedoms Phoenix and competing in Triathlons when he has “spare” time.

P. Eng., BSc. Mining Engineering, Graduate Diploma Business Administration CEO and Director

Mr. Robertson is a Mining Engineer with over 40 years’ experience in the mining sector. He has worked in several countries, including Canada, United States, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey, searching for commodities such as gold, silver, copper, palladium, nickel, zinc, uranium, and most recently lithium and rare earths. His experience covers the complete spectrum of the mining industry, including grassroots exploration, project evaluation, mine construction, mine operations and closure. He has served as President of Yukon Gold, Nuinsco Resources Inc. and
Victory Nickel Ltd. As President of Nuinsco Resources, he played a leading role in the creating significant shareholder value through the development of Nuinsco’s nickel assets as well as spearheading the entry of the company into uranium exploration Mr. Robertson is a Director of Minnova Corp, Romios Gold, and Appia Energy. He is a Professional Engineer and holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Alaska and Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Laurentian University.

Evie Brooks started in the real estate field soon after completing college in a management capacity in Atlanta, GA where she stayed for four years before setting out on her own and has not looked back since. Evie has been investing for over 24 years both domestically and internationally and hosts a hefty portfolio spaning the US and Central America.

Currently Evie has professionals clients in their own professional field of study that have engaged her expertise to become their mentor to guide them in finding real estate transaction to put their money to work. These clients have worked with Evie for years in real estate venture investments and she has guided them in establishing a strong portfolio which include dozens of projects both in the US and in Panama.

Evie taught for the Rich Dad Poor Dad orginization as an advanced educator in four different countries until 2014 at which time the Panama market was so demanding she had to focus her attention on the hot market expansion. She has taught 1000’s of students throughout the year whom attended her educational seminars.

Evie has been investing in Panama for five years and has no plans of slowing down.

Evie was also just recognized as the #1 producing marketing rep in Panama of all time with the Empresas Bern organization who was celebrating their 40th year in business. She has also received top producer awards the last four of the five years she has been working in Panama.

Evie and her team have now also joined forces with Simply Natural to take the entire Panama real estate experience to a whole new level.

After success in the computer industry, Cobb and partners formed ECI Development in 1996. This residential resort company develops communities in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama currently, with expansion plans into Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador. Assets include 5 miles of beachfront, 4000 acres, golf course, hotels, commercial and residential properties.

Cobb contributes professionally on matters concerning international real estate finance, development, and ownership. He consulted for The Oxford Club, contributes to trade publications, writes a weekly column for the Escape Artist, and serves on the board of several multinational companies including an international Bank in Belize. He was a 2017 Director for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and now serves on the Global Business and Alliances Committee for NAR.

Mr Lewis has nearly 20 years of corporate infrastructure/security/application design and development. Engagements with governments, Société Générale, Fimat Financial, Calyon Financial, NewEdge, WWT, Oracle, and Kaiser Permanente. Core competencies in security design, data expediency, data center design, application design, development, and deployment. He began running mining operations in 2010, with deep expertise in mixed-use mining operations and the next generation of staked mining protocols.

Mr. Sorger is a capital markets and advisory professional with over 15 year experience in finance and consulting. Daniel has been a Vice President Institutional Equities Sales at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto and Macquarie Capital in London with experience covering accounts across Canada, United States, and Europe.

Juan S. Galt is a Bitcoin and blockchain investment researcher. He’s been studying cryptocurrencies since 2012 and professionally, he’s been a freelance journalist since 2014. He’s Published on CoinTelegraph.com, BitcoinMagazine.com, Newsbtc.com and News.Bitcoin.com. He now writes regularly for The Dollar Vigilante and occasionally on Steemit.com.

He was an early adopter of Ethereum and has worked with multiple cryptocurrency communities like DASH, Supernet, Komodo, NXT and of course, Bitcoin. Almost all of these have seen more then 5x growth since late 2015.

He’s a Certified Bitcoin Professional, as per C4 standards. He’s not a software engineer or a cryptographer, but an economics and technologically savvy analyst and educator with historical and big picture understanding of the cryptocurrency markets.

He’s also an Ambassador for Komodo, a decentralized, anonymous cross blockchain exchange that’s been in active development since atleast 2014.

Bill McWilliam began is career in the investment industry in 1970 at Midland Dougherty as a research assistant. In 1976 he was hired by Montreal Trust to as the senior investment officer and pension fund manager for Western Canada. In 1980 Odlum Brown & Co hired Bill as their Oil & Gas analyst. In 1982 Canarim Investments (Cannacord) hired Bill as their Director of Research and Branch Manager. In 1994 CM Oliver hired Bill as their Mining Analyst. In 1988 Bill founded his first junior company, Fortune Bay Resources that partnered with Placer Dome on their property in New Foundland. In 2003 Cascadero Copper was founded with a portfolio of mineral properties in both British Columbia, Canada and Salta Province, Argentina. The British Columbia properties where sold in 2017 to Amarc giving Cascadero the ability to focus on their 27 properties.

Mr. McWilliam is the Chairman of Cascadero Copper and the driving force behind property acquisition and development. His superior skills in research and geological knowledge give the Company the stability to ensure a consistent growth path. He has the intellectual ability and maturity which is consistent with senior managers in most industries. Mr. McWilliam’s skill set coupled with intuitive ability enables him to confront issues head-on and is never on to shy away from a tough issue. Cascadero Copper is well led by Mr. McWilliam.

Judith is an experienced and energetic management specialist, who has, over the past 35 years, initiated intrapreneurial ventures as well as handled projects and programs for both public and private companies. She brings ten years of recent experience in business dealings in mineral property management in British Columbia, Ontario and Argentina. and She provided expertise in government, regulatory and cultural complexities, while acting as director of Cascadero Copper Corporation, a TSX listed Argentine focused Exploration Company. She was recently promoted to the position of President/CEO of Cascadero Copper.

Judith holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia, and was a Chartered Financial Advisor, having worked as an investment broker. Her skills in organization, logistics, leadership, team building and communication have effectively managed the development and profitable sales of businesses that she founded.
Judith provided a strong voice during her 12 years as a Councillor for the City of Courtenay. She is an intelligent advocate who provides leadership in a focused, creative, and collaborative manner to enable community consensus in a challenging environment.

As a conscientious community lead, Judith has founded and/or served on the Boards of several local, provincial and National organizations including the Comox Valley Community Foundation, Community Foundations of Canada, as President of the Rotary Club of West Vancouver Sunrise and the current President of the Vancouver Water Ski Club.