Gold Forum Americas / XPL-DEV 2018

Charles Cooper joined Metals Focus in early 2018 to head up Mine Economics after co-founding a metals and mining consultancy business, Skarn Associates Ltd in 2016. Charles has over 20 years of mining sector experience starting his career as a geologist, before joining Brook Hunt where he worked as a senior mining analyst for 10 years. Following this he worked as an Extel-rated sell-side mining analyst for a number of investment banks including Evolution Securities and Oriel Securities. He then cofounded The Gold Mining Company Ltd, an investment vehicle focused on acquiring operating gold mines in West Africa. He has also served as MD of a couple of private exploration companies targeting oil shale, gold and potash. More recently he developed and led the Mine Economics business at S&P Global Market Intelligence (previously SNL).

Roy Sebag is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Goldmoney Inc. (TSX: XAU) the world’s largest precious metal savings, payments, and custody platform overseeing nearly $2 billion of precious metal savings for over 1.5 million clients worldwide.

Mr. Sebag is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Menē Inc. (TSXV: MENE) a direct-to-consumer jewelry brand which crafts pure 24 karat gold and platinum jewelry that is transparently sold by gram weight.

Previously, Mr. Sebag founded BitGold which launched in 2014 and rapidly became the most successful digital gold payments and savings platform in history. BitGold ultimately merged with Goldmoney in 2015 resulting in the creation of Goldmoney Inc.

Prior to BitGold, Mr. Sebag was a portfolio manager that engaged in fundamental long and short equity investing in distressed, event-driven, and natural resource related opportunities.

Mr. Sebag has enjoyed a 15-year career in business in diverse industries ranging from technology, precious metals, and investment management. He is also the author of several noted papers including: Global Gold Mine & Deposit Ranking, The Natural Order of Money, and The Gold Jewelry Standard.

Charlie Morris is Chief Investment Officer at Newscape. He is the Lead Manager of the Newscape Diversified Growth Fund and chairs the investment committee. Having studied the gold market since the late 1990s, he writes Atlas Pulse which gives a 30,000 ft view of the gold market. That led to an interest in blockchain technology and in 2013, he founded Crypto Composite; an analytics platform for digital assets. This project aims to provide institutional investors with an in depth look inside blockchains so they can measure network activity. This increase in transparency, will lead to greater confidence in digital assets among the investment community.

Prior to Newscape, Charlie spent 17 years at HSBC Global Asset Management as the Head of Absolute Return managing a multi-asset fund range with assets in excess of $3 billion. He is a familiar face in the financial media and writes frequently as the editor of Atlas Pulse and the Fleet Street Letter, Britain’s oldest financial newsletter. Prior to fund management, Charlie was an officer in the Grenadier Guards, British Army.

Terry Heymann is CFO at the World Gold Council and has broad experience across the gold supply chain. Terry also oversees the World Gold Council’s work on standard-setting, including development of the Responsible Gold Mining Principles, The Conflict-Free Gold Standard and the Guidance Note on All-In Costs, all of which support increased transparency and integrity in the gold industry.

Prior to joining the World Gold Council, Terry was a Principal at Marakon Associates, a leading strategy consultancy, where he helped clients in several industries on strategic issues and new product development.

Jeffrey M. Christian is Managing Partner of CPM Group. He has been a prominent analyst and advisor on precious metals and commodities markets since the 1970’s, with work spanning precious metals, energy markets, base metals, agricultural markets, and economic analysis in general. Mr. Christian is considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on precious metals markets, commodities in general, and financial engineering using options for hedging and investing purposes. He is the author of Commodities Rising, 2006.

He founded the company in 1986, spinning off the Commodities Research Group from Goldman, Sachs & Co and its commodities trading arm, J. Aron & Company.

He has advised many of the world’s largest corporations and institutional investors on managing their commodities price and market exposures, as well as providing advisory services to the World Bank, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and numerous governments.

Christopher Galbraith is a geologist with more than 10 years of experience in exploration. He joined the Mining Studies group of S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2014, when he began tracking global exploration activity and financing levels for the group's various publications. As part of the SPGMI team, Chris also focuses on the world's gold mines, and produces the Mined Supply Report: Gold. Released quarterly, this report provides global, industry-wide updates on the supply-side of the gold market. Based in Canada, he divides his time between Halifax and Toronto.