featured presenters

David Morgan is a widely recognized analyst in the precious metals industry and consults for hedge funds, high net worth investors, mining companies, depositories, and bullion dealers. He is the publisher of The Morgan Report, a world-class publication designed to build and secure wealth. He is the author of “The Silver Manifesto” and a featured speaker at investment conferences worldwide.

David Morgan has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, MSNBC, and BNN in Canada. He has interviewed- The Wall Street Journal, Futures Magazine, Investing Rules Book, and numerous other publications.

Additionally, he provides the public with a tremendous amount of information. David is a macroeconomist -educating people about honest money and the benefits of a sound financial system.

Prior to starting Miles Franklin, Ltd. in 1989, Andrew became a Licensed Financial Planner, specializing in Swiss Franc Investments and alternative investments. At Miles Franklin Ltd., a company that has eclipsed $5 billion in sales, Andrew has developed an operation that maintains trust, collaboration, and ethical behavior, superior customer service and satisfaction to better serve their clients. He is responsible for overseeing the firm’s operations and business functions; including strategy and planning, account management, finance, and new business.

Andy Schectman has been a prominent figure in the financial services industry for 25+ years. Andy has distinguished himself as a reputable speaker on economics, global investing, and foreign currencies.

Accomplished analyst, author, and speaker, Jeff Clark is a globally recognized authority on precious metals. The son of an award-winning gold panner, with family-owned mining claims in California, Arizona, and Nevada, Jeff has deep roots in the industry. An active investor with a love of writing, Jeff is a long time precious metals and mining industry analyst, including 10 years as senior editor for the world-renowned publication BIG GOLD.

Jeff has been a regular conference speaker, including at Cambridge House and Sprott Resources events, the Silver Summit, and many others. He provides exclusive analysis and market commentary for GoldSilver.com, and serves on the advisory board at Strategic Wealth Preservation in Grand Cayman.

Robert Kientz is president, editor, publisher, and YouTube influencer of GoldSilverPros.com and founder of finiq.tv a brand new all-finance podcast network with a one-stop to learn and talk about everything you need for your financial health.

With over twenty years of investment experience in the bond, stock, real estate, commodities, Forex, and precious metals markets. Rob emphasize long-term, cycle investing in the precious metals markets.

David Erfle is a self-taught mining sector investor. He stumbled upon the mining space in 2003 as he was looking to invest into a growing sector of the market.

After researching the gains made from the 2001 bottom in the tiny gold and silver complex, he became fascinated with this niche market. So much so that in 2005 he decided to sell his home and invest the entire proceeds from the sale into junior mining companies.

When his account had tripled by September, 2007, he decided to quit his job as the Telecommunications Equipment Buyer at UCLA and make investing in this sector his full-time job.

David founded the Junior Miner Junky subscription-based newsletter in April, 2017 and writes a weekly column for precious metals news service Kitco.com, whose website attracts nearly a million visits every day.

Steve Penny is a full-time trader and investor focused exclusively on silver, gold, uranium and hard assets.

Mr. Penny is the founder and publisher of SilverChartist; a tight knit community of like-minded investors pursuing and achieving financial freedom.  

Prior to launching SilverChartist, Mr. Penny served as a rescue pilot in the Air Force for 18 years and also helps to homeschool his three children.

John Adams is the Chief Economist for As Good As Gold Australia, South Australia’s largest bullion dealership. John has written and spoken extensively about macroeconomics, financial risk, public policy and precious metals (especially the silver market) including for Australian mainstream media publications.

John is also the co-host of the popular YouTube channel, In the Interests of the People.

In 2019, John Adams rose to Australian prominence when he led a national campaign that successfully stopped the Parliament of Australia from criminalising the use of cash above $AUD 10,000. As part of this campaign, John was invited to provide expert testimony to the Senate Economics Committee.

John Adams is a professional economist with a diverse career from being an economic advisor to an Australian Senator, a civil servant for the Australian and New South Wales Governments and a management consultant for Big 4 accounting firm EY.

Earl Bennett is a retired State Geologist and former Dean of the College of Mines and Earth Resources and the College of Science at the University of Idaho. After serving honorably in the U.S. Air Force, Bennett received degrees in geology from the University of Delaware (BA, 1968), N.C. State at Raleigh, NC (MS, 1970) and the University of Idaho (PhD, 1973). Earl began working with the Idaho Geological Survey at the University of Idaho in 1973. He became the Associate Director in 1986 and State Geologist in 1989. In 1997, he was appointed Dean of the College of Mines and Earth Resources at UI and the first Dean of the new College of Science established in July 2002.

During his career Dr. Bennett published several hundred papers, generated over $5 million in research funds and made hundreds of presentations about Idaho’s geology and mineral resources. In 2003, he was honored as a life member of the Northwest Mining Association.

Retiring as an Emeritus Professor in Geology in 2003, he continues to interact with the state’s mining sector as a consultant and speaker. He specializes in the mining history of the Coeur d’Alene Mining District and other mining camps. He currently sits on the boards of the Latah County Historical Society and the Idaho State Historical Society and serves as the Genesee City Historian.

Virginia (Ginna) is an economic geologist and research geologist with the Idaho Geological Survey (part of the University of Idaho). Ginna received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her undergraduate degree from Carleton College. She started her career in mineral deposits with AMAX Exploration, working in the Railroad Mining District of Elko County, Nevada. After grad school she spent five years in mineral exploration with Anaconda Minerals Company in Reno, exploring for gold and polymetallic deposits in Utah, Nevada and Alaska. Following a year of teaching back at Carleton College, she returned to Nevada as a contract geologist working mostly on gold exploration for several major companies.

In 1989, she moved to Boise to staff a new one-person satellite office for the Survey. She learned about Idaho mining from Dr. Earl Bennett, then the State Geologist, and was given the task of preparing the annual review of Idaho’s mining industry. With the IGS, she has had multiple responsibilities, including answering public inquiries on ore deposits and the geology of southwestern Idaho, the annual mining and exploration review (typically presented at the AEMA/Northwest Mining Association meeting), and conducting research on mineral deposits and related geology. Specific projects have included geologic mapping in the Mayfield, Hagerman, and De Lamar areas of southern Idaho, inventories of abandoned and inactive mines on public lands, research on geology and geochronology of rare earth and thorium deposits in the Lemhi Pass District, Idaho-Montana, research on gold-antimony deposits in the Stibnite Mining District of central Idaho, and characterization of aggregate suitability for highway concrete. She is also an affiliate faculty at Boise State University and taught an occasional course in past years.

Michael DiRienzo serves as the Executive Director of the Silver Institute, an international association whose membership comprises the major participants in the silver industry. In that capacity, Michael manages the Institute’s overall daily activities, budget development and management, implementing the annual plan, public affairs, and government relations activities.

From 1999-2002, Michael served as Vice President of the Gold Institute, managing that association’s government and public relations activities. Prior to 1999, Michael served as a government affairs representative for Janus/Merritt Strategies, a political and strategic management firm. Michael also represented a member company of the Toyota Group as Director of Government Relations. Formerly, Michael served as Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to the Chairman of the House Rules Committee, U.S. Congressman David Dreier (R-CA). During his tenure with the Chairman, Michael worked on House Banking Committee and Rules Committee issues.

A pairing of an overarching desire to start new businesses and a superhuman thirst for sharing his economic knowledge resulted in the emergence of the Economic Ninja YouTube channel. Beginning with his entry into real estate and stock market investing 20 years ago and progressing soon after into precious metals and Cryptocurrency, he can truly claim he has personal experience he desires to share with others.

Often quoted by The Ninja, “You don’t have to have a degree to make money.” He is a self taught, self made man. The Economic Ninja is an accredited investor, holds a real estate license, owns multiple corporations, has a construction industry background, and is a Cryptocurrency and gold and silver enthusiast.

David H. Smith is Senior Analyst of The Morgan Report and regular contributor to Money Metals. He is also Ambassador with the LODE Digital Silver and Gold Project and Co-Author with David Morgan of Second Chance: How to Make (and Keep) Big Money from the Coming Gold and Silver Shock-Wave.

David tours and writes about miners, and presents globally at Virtual and F2F Conference venues.

Dan is a licensed civil engineer and currently serves as Regional Administrator for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality in Coeur d’Alene. He oversees the implementation of environmental regulatory programs for the State of Idaho in the five northern counties of the state, including the Superfund Project Office at the Bunker Hill Superfund Site in Kellogg, Idaho.

Dan was born in Lewiston, Idaho and appreciates the importance of Idaho’s mineral industry in his own family history. His great-great grandfather was a pioneer and prospector, and great grandfather worked at Bunker Hill. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Washington State University and has spent much of his career working to restore Idaho’s land and water from historic waste disposal practices in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District. Prior to joining Idaho DEQ, Dan worked for TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering in Kellogg providing engineering design and consulting for infrastructure, environmental remediation, and mine reclamation projects.

Peter Spina’s experience with the precious metals markets started back in the mid-1990s, which led to the creation of GoldSeek.com in 1995. Today GoldSeek.com ranks within the top, most-visited gold investor websites in the world with a 250,000+ global monthly reader outreach.

Since 2003, SilverSeek.com has served millions of readers with the latest silver news and information. SilverSeek.com continues to lead and connect the silver investor community with up-to-date information on the silver markets providing visitors with live silver prices, covering and analyzing the silver mining and exploration companies, discussing silver as money and related topics.

With over 15 years of experience with investing into gold and silver mining companies, Peter devotes much of his time researching, consulting and investing into gold and silver stocks with a primary focus on micro-caps. His focus is also heavily on gold and silver’s return as monetary metals and the ongoing monetary and financial developments with a global perspective.

Bob Coleman has been a Registered Investment Advisor since 1992. He founded Profits Plus Capital Management, LLC (RIA) and Dollars and Sense Growth Fund, LP in 2001. Mr Coleman recognized the necessity for physical metal rather than paper in 2006 and went on to establish Idaho Armored Vaults and Gold Silver Vault in 2008. He is a distinguished and respected leader in the precious metals industry.

Idaho Armored Vaults specializes in storage, transportation, shipping logistics, and security. Profits Plus Precious Metals offers advising and transacting in physical metals with individuals and institutions, providing a deep two-way market for precious metals.

Lobo Tiggre is the founder and CEO of Louis James LLC, and the principal analyst and editor of IndependentSpeculator.com. He researched and recommended speculative opportunities in Casey Research publications from 2004 to 2018, writing under the name “Louis James.” While with Casey Research, he learned the ins and outs of resource speculation from the legendary speculator Doug Casey.

Although frequently mistaken for one, Mr. Tiggre is not a professional geologist. However, his long tutelage under world-class geologists, writers, and investors resulted in an exceptional track record. A fully transparent, documented, and verifiable track record is a central feature of IndependentSpeculator.com services today. As of August 26, 2021, the average gain of all closed trades is 82.4%. Another key feature is that Mr. Tiggre will put his own money into the speculations he writes about, so his readers will always know he has “skin in the game” with them.

Mr. Christian is Managing Partner of CPM Group, a precious metals and commodities research and consulting firm. He founded CPM Group in 1986 when he bought the Commodities Research Group he managed from J. Aron and Goldman Sachs. He is a globally recognized authority on the markets for precious metals and is well known for his application of economics and econometrics across commodities markets. He has written two books, Commodities Rising in 2005 and World Guide To Battery-Powered Road Transportation in 1979.

He also is well known for his financial engineering work using commodities derivatives both for hedging and investment purposes and has worked with numerous governments, central banks, mining companies, industrial companies, investment banks, and institutional investors.

Mark Compton rejoined the American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA) in 2019 after serving six years and a half years as president of the Utah Mining Association. Mark also worked at AEMA (then known as the Northwest Mining Association) as government affairs manager from 2008 – 2012, and now possesses over a quarter century of government affairs experience. Prior to joining the mining industry, he served on the congressional and gubernatorial staff of C.L. “Butch” Otter of Idaho, and he has worked as a forester and public affairs specialist in the forest products industry in Montana, Idaho and Washington. He resides with his wife Kelley on the outskirts of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

The American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA), based in Spokane Valley, Washington, is a 126-year-old, 1,100-member national trade association representing the minerals industry with members residing in 44 U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces or territories and ten other countries. AEMA is the recognized national voice for exploration, the junior mining sector, and maintaining access to public lands, and represents the entire mining life cycle, from exploration to reclamation and closure. More than 80% of our members are small businesses or work for small businesses.

Mark Yaxley is the Managing Director for Strategic Wealth Preservation (SWP), a fully-integrated precious metals dealer and global secure storage provider. Mark joined SWP in 2014 and now acts as the company’s Managing Director, focusing on the diverse needs of SWP’s individual and commercial clients. His hit YouTube series ‘Inside the Vault’ has helped millions of investors better understand owning gold and silver bullion.

Mark’s areas of expertise are gold and silver products and services including: bullion sales, secure storage solutions, global logistics and precious metal IRAs.

Nick Hodge is the Co-founder of Digest Publishing and Publisher of Daily Profit Cycle. 

He’s also the founder of the Hodge Family Office, where he offers a series of products geared toward helping high net worth and retail investors manage their own money and financial destiny. 

Previously, Nick founded the Outsider Club, and built it into a financial publishing behemoth serving hundreds of thousands of investors and generating tens of millions in revenue.

By 24, he had co-authored his first book on investing, Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks. By 30, he’d published his second: Energy Investing For Dummies.

Nick spent his early thirties focusing on the world of private placements and has made millions for himself and his clients while helping to finance some of the most exciting early-stage companies in the resource, energy, cannabis, biotech sectors — and beyond. 

Known for a “call it like you see it” approach to money and policy, Nick’s intuition for using global change for financial gain has earned him followers across the world and led to countless media appearances. 

When he’s not writing, investing, or flying around the world to meet with company executives, Nick can usually be found somewhere on his small ranch in the Inland Northwest with his beautiful wife and three children, pursuing the outdoor activities he grew up with and continues to love.