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Premier Dennis Fentie (Keynote Speaker)
Government of Yukon
Dennis Fentie was first elected to represent Watson Lake in the Yukon Legislative Assembly during the general election of September 30, 1996. He was re-elected in the general elections of April 17, 2000, November 4, 2002 and October 10, 2006. Dennis Fentie has served as Yukon’s Premier since 2002.
During his time in the Yukon legislature, he served as a member of the Standing Committee on Rules, Elections and Privileges, as Government House Leader and Official Opposition house leader. He also headed a Cabinet Commission on Forestry during the sitting of the 29th legislative assembly.
In addition to his political career, Premier Fentie has a business background in logging, tourism, mining, trucking and fuel distribution.
Premier Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta and moved to Watson Lake at the age of 12. He was an active participant in baseball and senior hockey, and a former minor hockey coach. He also maintains a keen interest in history and current affairs.
Under Premier Fentie’s leadership, the following accomplishments were made in the mining and exploration sectors:
- Permitted the first three operating hardrock mines Yukon has seen in a generation, producing both precious metals and base metals;
- Oversaw the revival of the exploration industry, with expenditures and activity reaching record levels in recent years;
- Implemented a modernized and attractive mining legislative regime; and,
- Encouraged significant investment for industry development and infrastructure.
Premier Fentie lives in Watson Lake with his partner Lorraine Nixon. He enjoys spending time with his children and grandchildren.
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Chris Berry
Co-Author, Morning Notes by Dr. Michael Berry
With a life-long interest in geopolitics and the financial issues that emerge from these relationships, Chris founded House Mountain Partners LLC in 2010. House Mountain firmly believes that the emerging Quality of Life Cycle emanating from Asia is a “game changer” which will affect every one of us throughout the world for decades. With that in mind, the firm focuses on the intersection of three topics: the evolving geopolitical relationship between emerging and developed economies, the commodity space, and junior mining and resource stocks positioned to benefit from this phenomenon.
Chris spent 13 years working across various roles in sales and brokerage on Wall Street before founding House Mountain Partners. He also co-authors a newsletter with his father Dr. Michael Berry, "Morning Notes by Dr. Michael Berry".
He holds an MBA in Finance with an international focus from Fordham University, and a BA in International Studies from The Virginia Military Institute.
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Michael Berry
Co-Author, Morning Notes by Dr. Michael Berry
Michael Berry was born in Colombia, raised in Canada and has now lived in the US for many years. After earning a Ph.D. from Arizona State University (quantitative analysis and investment finance), he was a professor of investments at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He followed with the Wheat First Endowed Chair at James Madison University in Virginia.
His career evolved into managing small and mid cap value portfolios for Kemper Scudder and Milwaukee based Heartland Advisors.
For the past 6 years he has been a guest lecturer at the Federal Reserve and in 2010 he testified to Congress on natural resource policy.
Currently he publishes Morning Notes by Michael A. Berry, Ph.D. The Notes discuss geopolitical, technological and economic trends and their effect on capital markets. In addition, he identifies opportunities in the area of natural resources, high technology and biotech for the Discovery Investing strategy he developed.
He may be reached at info@discoveryinvesting.com or you may register to receive the Notes at discoveryinvesting.com |
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Dr. Harvey Brooks
Deputy Minister of Yukon Economic Development
Dr. Harvey Brooks was appointed Deputy Minister of Yukon Economic Development on July 17, 2008.
A former deputy minister with the Government of Saskatchewan, Dr. Brooks served four different departments during his tenure: Agriculture and Food, Government Relations, Highways and Transportation and Rural Revitalization.
Dr. Brooks has extensive experience in Western Canada’s agriculture industry and has served in such distinguished positions as Director of Policy and Economic Research for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (since renamed Viterra) and Co-operative Chair in Agricultural Marketing and Business at the University of Alberta.
He received his doctorate in economics from Iowa State University and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan.
Dr. Brooks’ career has focused on economic development, encompassing policy, research, management consulting and management and operations.
Along with a significant amount of public and private sector experience, Dr. Brooks brings with him expertise in cross-departmental approaches to economic development, and national and international initiatives.
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Mike Burke
Mineral Services Division Manager- Yukon Geological Survey
Mike graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1987. He has worked since 1983 in the mineral exploration and mining industry in British Columbia and Yukon. He was fortunate to be part of the exploration team which discovered the Sa Dena Hes lead-zinc mine and the Ketza River Gold Mine in Yukon. Mike continued working at the Ketza River Gold Mine from exploration through mine development, production and closure as the Mine Geologist before joining the Yukon Geological Survey in 1990.
Mike manages the Mineral Services Division of the Yukon Geological Survey which includes Yukon Minfile database, Placer geology, Yukon Mining Incentive Program and the H.S. Bostock Core Library while maintaining his role liaising with mining and exploration companies, visiting active exploration sites, authoring the annual Yukon Mining, Development and Exploration Overview and presenting information on Yukon at various meetings and conferences.
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David Coffin
Co-founder and Editor of the HRA Newsletter Service
David is the “rocks side” of HRA, and has been active in mining exploration for over 30 years in roles spanning prospecting through feasibility studies, and now markets commentary. David Coffin founded, with his brother Eric, the HRA newsletter service that deals with the mining and metals sectors in 1995. David, the “rocks side” of HRA, has been active in mining exploration for over 30 years in roles spanning prospecting through feasibility studies, and now markets commentary. David logs literally hundreds of thousands of miles every year, visiting exploration and development sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers. They benefit not just from Dave’s seal of approval, but his outline of what he is seeing and where that might lead so that subscribers can fine-tune their own sector gauges. And a lot of serious market players take notice. David is a regular speaker at Cambridge House, the PDAC, the New Orleans Gold Show as well as other resource and commodity investment forums in North America and Europe, and has been interviewed numerous times on radio and TV and in third party news articles for his opinions on the sector and markets. HRA was one of the first, back in 2001, to call the current cycle as the secular trend others have only recently recognized. Since then fifteen HRA “picks” have been taken over in the ensuing boom market, half a dozen have successfully completed the shift from exploration to production and an equal number are closing on the that threshold. But HRA is not a cheerleader - numerous others have garnered gains for subscribers on profits taking calls, and despite a continued believe in the long term growth of the mining sector it has made several calls for general profits taking ahead of market corrections. HRA is opinion about developments and developers in the mining sector, on a considered, factual, and timely basis.
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Eric Coffin
Co-Editor, The Hard Rock Analyst
Eric has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures.
Eric has been interviewed on CBC Television’s Business News and national and local radio in Canada and the US for his opinions on resource trends and is a frequent contributor to several third party publications and a number of resource, gold, metals and market related Internet sites.
He regularly speaks at a number of North American gold and resource conferences. He was one of the first analysts (along with David) to point out the disastrous effects of gold hedging and gold loan capital financing (1997) and to predict the start of the current secular bull market in commodities based on the movement of the US Dollar (2001) and the acceleration of growth in Asia and India.
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Brent Cook
Editor, Exploration Insights
Brent Cook, a renowned Exploration Analyst and Geologist, is the author of Exploration Insights, a mining and exploration investment letter. He has over twenty-five years of experience providing economic and geologic evaluations to major mining companies, resource funds and investors. He has worked in over 50 countries on virtually every mineral deposit type on projects ranging from grassroots projects through feasibility studies and bank audits. He was principal Mining and Exploration Analyst to Global Resource Investments through 2003 where he provided analysis to retail brokers and two in-house funds. His newsletter selectively covers junior mining and exploration investment opportunities.
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Mickey Fulp
Editor, The Mercenary Geologist
The Mercenary Geologist Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences with honor from the University of Tulsa, and M.Sc. Geology from the University of New Mexico. Mickey has over 30 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, oil and gas, and water in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist for the past 22 years, specializing in geological mapping, property evaluation, and business development. In addition to Mickey’s professional credentials and experience, he is high-altitude proficient and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2003 to 2006, Mickey made four outcrop ore discoveries in Peru, Nevada, Chile, and British Columbia.
Mickey is well-known throughout the mining and exploration community for his ongoing work as an analyst, newsletter writer, and speaker.
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Ian Gordon
President, Longwave Analytics
The son of a British military officer, Ian followed in his Father’s footsteps and graduated from The Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He served as a Platoon Commander in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Four years later in 1967 Ian immigrated to Canada where he entered the History Department at the University of Manitoba—a decision that has had a profound impact on his career to this day. It was during this period that he began to study the historical trends that ultimately provided the foundation for his Long Wave theory.
It wasn’t until 1983 that Ian entered the financial realm. He worked as a stock broker in Ontario for eight years before working in Management for three more years in Toronto and Vancouver. It was 1998 when Ian determined that the Long Wave Theory was too compelling to ignore any longer. He began writing the Long Wave Analyst and re-entered the sales side of the business. He accurately predicted the end of the massive equity bull market and also accurately predicted the beginnings of the current gold bull market. By 2003, Ian was the #1 performer at Canaccord Capital (Canada’s largest independent brokerage firm)—a position he maintained until he left the firm in late 2005.
The need to access further institutional investment, vital to supporting Ian’s financings prompted him to move his team to Bolder Investment Partners in late 2005. The move to Bolder proved very successful for Ian and his team, accelerating the momentum that had been gained at Canaccord previously. Ian served as a Vice President of Bolder for three years.
The Long Wave Theory, in addition to a keen sense of what constitutes a winning deal, has enabled Ian and his team to enjoy meteoric growth over the last decade. This success has enabled Ian to chart the course for the next leg of his journey.
The same Long Wave principles that have guided Ian for the last decade are just as relevant today as they were a decade ago. These principles very accurately predicted the collapse of the financial markets—a prediction that factored heavily into Ian’s investment strategies over the last decade. His focus now is the next decade. Ian is focussing his attention on using the same Long Wave principles to help define next steps for both institutional and retail investors.
The Long Wave Group, a company dedicated to this pursuit has been formed, and Ian, the Long Wave Analyst himself, is assuming the reins as Chairman. Ian’s experience and expertise, in addition to his infectious passion and enthusiasm, will serve as a guiding beacon for employees and clients alike.
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Greg McCoach
Editor, The Mining Speculator
Greg McCoach is an entrepreneur, who has successfully started and run several businesses the past 22 years. For the last 7 of these years he has been involved with the precious metals industry as a bullion dealer, investor, and newsletter writer.
Mr. McCoach's years of business experience and extensive personal contacts in the mining industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for The Mining Speculator since its inception in 2001. He also spreads his vast knowledge of the precious metals markets in a weekly column for Gold World.
Greg is also the President of AmeriGold, a gold bullion dealer.
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Bill Murphy
Owner, www.LeMetropoleCafe.com and Chairman, GATA
Bill Murphy grew up in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and graduated from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1968. His senior year he broke all the single season Ivy League pass receiving records and was Honorable Mention on the All-America Football team. He went on to become the starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots in 1968.
Bill, who now resides in Dallas, Texas, went on to a career in the futures industry as a commodities brokers. Early on he worked for Shearson Hayden Stone and Drexel Burnham before starting up his own introducing brokerage on 5th Avenue in New York.
In 1998 he opened up http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/, a financial market website geared to the gold market.
In January 1999 Bill became chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to expose the manipulation of the gold price by The Gold Cartel.
He chaired The GATA African Gold Summit in Durban, South Africa on May 10, 2001, attended by 5 sub-Saharan African nations, the South African Reserve Bank, leading SA gold producers, the South African unions, etc., - an event that was featured on SABC television.
On August 8th and 9th 2005 he also chaired Gold Rush 21 in Dawson City, Canada, a historic conference held in the Yukon to expose the manipulation of the gold market. One hundred delegates attended from 14 countries, including Andrey Bykov, an economic consultant to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Then on April 18 he was the host for the GATA Goes To Washington conference in Arlington, Virginia. 180 attendees came from 17 countries for the gathering. The conference showcased GATA’s FOIA efforts to learn the truth about US gold reserves from the Fed and US Treasury … which has led to a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve System in The United States District Court For The District of Columbia.
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Lawrence Roulston
Editor, Resource Opportunities
Lawrence Roulston, editor of Resource Opportunities, is a geologist with engineering and business training, and more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the resource industry as a consultant and independent mining analyst. He is a renowned guest speaker at industry conferences and events, and can be heard on popular business television and radio programs. Mr. Roulston’s years of hands-on experience and extensive personal contacts in the industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for Resource Opportunities.
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Rick Rule
Founder Global Resource Investments
Rick has dedicated his entire life to all aspects of the natural resource industry. His contacts and knowledge of this market are unmatched. At Global he leads a team that features professionals trained in resource related disciplines, such as geology and engineering, who work together to evaluate investment opportunities.
Founder of Global Resource Investments Ltd. , Rick began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His research and brokerage capabilities are frequently recommended by distinguished financial newsletter writers such as Bob Bishop, Doug Casey, Adrian Day, Richard Maybury, Paul Van Eeden, Mark Skousen, Jack Pugsley and others.
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Shawn Ryan
Yukon Prospector
Over the past 15 years Shawn Ryan has discovered a string of promising gold properties, the most prominent being Underworld Resource’s White Gold project (acquired by Kinross Gold Corp) and Kaminak’s Coffee project, and is personally responsible for starting the biggest staking rush the Yukon has seen in 100 years. A self-taught prospector he acquired his observational skills as a mushroom picker in the North where we met his wife and business partner, Cathy Wood. Together they operate Ryanwood Exploration Inc. managing 40 employees, a year-round staking program, thousands of claims and dozens of agreements with exploration companies.
Shawn Ryan’s soil sampling work has advanced exploration in the Yukon, his aggressive and thorough sampling in a grid pattern has changed property development work in the Yukon for most companies. From humble beginnings, he is now outfitted with industry leading programs including global-positioning system co-ordinates, Google Earth and the latest geophysical maps produced by the Yukon and federal governments to chart his latest findings.
A visionary and strategy, he believes there are more discoveries across the Yukon and he is determined to be the one who will find them.
In 2010 he was named Prospector of the Year by the BC/Yukon Chamber of Mines and in 2011 he received the PDAC Bill Dennis award for a Canadian discovery or prospecting success.
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William M. Sheriff
Chairman & CEO, Golden Predator Corp.
Mr. Sheriff has over 30 years experience in the mineral exploration and development business and is the driving force behind the founding of Golden Predator Corp. Mr. Sheriff also serves as the Chairman of Silver Predator Corp., Tigris Uranium Corp., Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. and as a Director of Western Lithium Corporation.
Mr. Sheriff co-founded and served as Director and Chairman of Energy Metals Corporation, formerly a public company listed on the NYSE Arca and the TSX which was acquired by Uranium One for $1.8 billion in 2007. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of Evolving Gold Corp., Quincy Gold Corp., Midway Gold Corp., Eurasian Minerals Inc. and Uranium One Inc. As the founder and past-President of Platoro West Inc, a private company, he was widely acknowledged to be a leading precious metals prospect developer in the Western United States; in addition he amassed the largest uranium resource package ever in the United States. Mr. Sheriff also compiled and currently owns one of the largest privately-held mining databases in the world.
Mr. Sheriff has held various positions within the securities industry for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., Mitchum Jones & Templeton Inc. and for his own securities investment firm. He previously held various securities registrations including Series 3, Series 4, Series 7, Series 8 and Series 63 in addition to having been a registered investment advisor in the United States. To date Mr. Sheriff has raised in excess of $130 million for projects under his leadership.
Mr. Sheriff received his B.Sc. in Geology from Fort Lewis College, Colorado and his M.Sc. from the University of Texas-El Paso in Mining Geology.
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Chad Williams
Director, President & CEO - Victoria Gold Corp.
Chad is a Professional Mining Engineer who spent 13 years as a successful gold mining analyst. Prior to joining Victoria as its CEO he was the head of Mining Investment Banking at Blackmont Capital Inc. Chad is uniquely positioned to lead Victoria’s growth with his advanced understanding of the gold industry and his background as a mining engineer.
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