Confirmed Speakers

Jeffrey Nichols, Managing Director, American Precious Metals Advisors

Jeffrey Nichols, Managing Director, American Precious Metals Advisors

Jeffrey Nichols is widely recognized as one of the world’s top experts on the economics and finance of precious metals.  He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of investment… Read more »

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Frank E. Holmes, CEO & Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors

Frank E. Holmes, CEO & Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors

Frank Holmes is CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., which manages a diversified family of mutual funds and hedge funds specializing in gold, natural resources and… Read more »

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Marcus Grubb, Managing Director, Investment & Global Strategist, World Gold Council

Marcus Grubb, Managing Director, Investment & Global Strategist, World Gold Council

Marcus Grubb joined the World Gold Council in June 2008.  Marcus is responsible for the World Gold Council’s investment activities. His key role is to be the gold strategist for… Read more »

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Philip Klapwijk, Global Head of Metals Analytics, Thomson Reuters GFMS

Philip Klapwijk, Global Head of Metals Analytics, Thomson Reuters GFMS

Philip Klapwijk has close to 25 years experience analysing the gold, silver and PGMs markets, most of this time working for GFMS (since August 2011 part of Thomson Reuters), which… Read more »

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Nicholas Sarro-Waite, Senior Vice President, Commodity Risk Management Associates

Nicholas Sarro-Waite, Senior Vice President, Commodity Risk Management Associates

Nicholas Sarro-Waite, CFA is a senior vice president at Commodity Risk Management Associates. Nick is responsible for fundamental and technical analysis of base metals, macroeconomic research with a focus on… Read more »

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Joseph Ho, Head of ETFs Asia Pacific Region, Credit Suisse

Joseph Ho, Head of ETFs Asia Pacific Region, Credit Suisse

Joseph Ho, is the Managing Director and Head of ETFs for Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for leading the development of Credit Suisse’s ETF platform… Read more »

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John A. Robertson, Executive Director, E.I.M. Capital Managers

John A. Robertson, Executive Director, E.I.M. Capital Managers

John Robertson is an executive director of E.I.M. Capital Managers, an equity fund manager based in Melbourne, Australia.  His current roles include structuring resource sector portfolios for individual investors, family… Read more »

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Ross Norman, CEO, Sharps Pixley

Ross Norman, CEO, Sharps Pixley

Ross is an entrepreneur in the precious metals markets and is the owner of Sharps Pixley, London Bullion Brokers. Ross started his bullion career at Johnson Matthey, in England as… Read more »

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Kunal Shah, Head of Commodity Research, Nirmal Bang Commodities

Kunal Shah, Head of Commodity Research, Nirmal Bang Commodities

Kunal Shah is Head of Commodity Research at Nirmal Bang Commodities. Previously, he was managing the research desk at Motilal Oswal Commodities. Kunal has over 7 years’ experience in the… Read more »

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Marco Montanari, Head of Deutsche Bank ETFs and db-X funds, Asia Deutsche Bank Hong Kong

Marco Montanari, Head of Deutsche Bank ETFs and db-X funds, Asia Deutsche Bank Hong Kong

Marco Montanari has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. He is responsible for both ETFs and db-X funds platforms for Deutsche Bank in Asia. Before relocating to Asia, Marco… Read more »

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Sunil Kashyap, Managing Director – Head of Asia, ScotiaMocatta and Foreign Exchange

Sunil Kashyap, Managing Director – Head of Asia, ScotiaMocatta and Foreign Exchange

Sunil is primarily responsible for managing The Bank of Nova’s Scotia’s metals and foreign exchange businesses in Asia covering operations in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India and Dubai. After eight… Read more »

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Owen Hegarty, Executive Vice Chairman, G-Resources

Owen Hegarty, Executive Vice Chairman, G-Resources

Owen Hegarty has some 40 years experience in the global mining industry. He had 25 years with the Rio Tinto group where he was Managing Director of Rio Tinto Asia… Read more »

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Christopher Wyke, Commodities Product Manager, Schroder Investment Management

Christopher Wyke, Commodities Product Manager, Schroder Investment Management

Christopher joined Schroder’s in 2000 and is Product Manager for Commodity Funds. He commenced  his investment career in 1981 when he joined Rothschild Asset Management.  Christopher became Head of US… Read more »

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Dr Elena Clarici, Portfolio Manager, Scipion Capital

Dr Elena Clarici, Portfolio Manager, Scipion Capital

Dr Elena Clarici is Portfolio Manager with Scipion Capital, a frontier market specialist and fund manager focused on two distinctive themes: commodities and Africa. Prior to joining Scipion Capital, Elena… Read more »

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David Quarmby, Director Commodity Structuring, Standard Chartered

David Quarmby, Director Commodity Structuring, Standard Chartered

David began his career as a graduate trainee at Midland Montagu in London in 1989 before taking up a position in Treasury Sales. He began specializing in commodities three years… Read more »

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Lawrence Roulston, Editor, Resource Opportunities

Lawrence Roulston, Editor, Resource Opportunities

Lawrence Roulston, editor of Resource Opportunities, is a geologist, mining analyst, and former mining company executive based in Vancouver, Canada. With engineering and business training, and more than 20 years… Read more »

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Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA

Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA

Chris Powell is co-founder and secretary/treasurer of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. He is also managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, where he has worked since… Read more »

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Nick Spencer, CEO, Kolar Gold

Nick Spencer, CEO, Kolar Gold

Nick Spencer joined the board of Kolar Gold in 2004 and he has 25 years experience in international business including mine build and revival, open pit mining, equipment purchase and… Read more »

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Liwei Zhang, Executive Director, China Precious Metal Resources Holdings

Liwei Zhang, Executive Director, China Precious Metal Resources Holdings

Mr ZHANG Liwei is an executive director of China Precious Metal Resources Holdings. Before that, Mr Zhang was most recently Senior Vice President with Macquarie Capital. Mr Zhang has 10… Read more »

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Atheer Al-Rawe , Milton Ellis Rawe

Having completed an LLB law degree at the university of Westminster in 2004. Mr AlRawe entered the banking and finance industry working for a bulge bracket investment bank and later… Read more »

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