For over five years Uwe Bergold was head of one of the first asset management companies in Germany focusing on precious metal and commodity investments. In his publications, he warned of the stock crash in March 2000, and one year later accurately predicted the gold boom. Since then his investment focus is on the gold and commodity sector. Uwe Bergold is fund manager and author of various books.
His book "Investmentstrategien mit Rohstoffen" (Investment Strategies with Commodities) by now is one of the standard works on the topic. From 2001 to 2007, he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden and guest lecturer at a university in Poznań, Poland. From 2001 to 2003, Bergold was a lecturer at Sparkassenakademie Bayern in Landshut and, from 2004 to 2006, he was a lecturer at Deutsche Sparkassenakademie in Bonn. Since 2005 (when the fair took place for the very first time), he is one of the speakers at the International Precious Metals & Commodities Show in Munich. Bergold is responsible for the investment strategies of three investment funds: pro aurum ValueFlex, NOAH-Mix OP and GR Dynamik OP.
Jürgen Birner (born 1968) is the branch manager of pro aurum GmbH at the Munich headquarters and a precious metals expert with more than 20 years of industry experience.
Markus Bußler is responsible for the commoditiy sector at the investor magazine "Der Aktionär". He is chief editor of the newsletter "Goldfolio" and author of the book "Gold - Player, Märkte, Chancen." (Gold - Player, Markets, Opportunities) He also hosts the television program "Bußlers Goldfolio" on AKTIONÄRTV every Friday. His focus is on the precious metals gold and silver, in partcular on junior producers and exploration companies.
As a graduate engineer, Peter Denk formerly worked for well-known companies in the IT sector for over 20 years. Thanks to his scientific education, he is accustomed to carrying out unbiased analyzes and collecting data to gain an understanding of new processes. As he is in general approaching facts as unbiased as possible he early on noticed, that certain subjects are ignored completely or presented wrongly by mass media.
By reading many books, doing research, collecting own experiences and keeping in contact with extraordinary sources he became aware of a series of connections in politics, economics, financial systems, and spiritual knowledge, which led to his writing career. In 2008, he published his first book, and since 2009 has been writing for several websites about provisions for crises, timelines and current issues. He is publisher of one free and one paid newsletter, the free newsletter has over 8,000 subscribers. In 2015, his media-critical book "Lügenpresse" was published by the publishing house J-K-Fischer-Verlag. It states, that news on certain topics in mass media in Germany and most other Western countries tend to be very similarly reported and extremely biased.
During his research and investigations it became increasingly clear, that in Germany and worldwide we are heading for scenarios in which the usual infrastructure, at least temporarily, will no longer be available. Because of that he is now concentrating very much on the topic of crises prevention in all its facets: financial, physical and intangible.
Michael Ecker, born on June 14th, 1985 in Linz (Upper Austria), has been idealistic and non-profit since his childhood. After his young political commitment, he left and founded the citizens' initiative "Wir Mühlviertler". He is the owner of the company VOLKSKRAFTWERK for energy autonomy and development of new technologies.
Marc Friedrich studied international business economics. During his studies he intensively focused on the economy and financial markets. After graduating he was confronted with the concepts of risk capital, capital investment and investment consulting while working for a Swiss venture capital company. He was able to gain a lot of valuable international work experience in Argentina, the UK, Switzerland, and the US. During a stay in Argentina, Friedrich observed a national bancruptcy in 2001 and its devastating consequences.
Before moving to the law firm Lindenau Prior and Partner, Carlos A. Gebauer worked as a lawyer from 1994 to 2012 and at the same time as an officially appointed notary representative in Duisburg from 1995 to 2007.
His legal focus is on civil law and civil procedural law, in particular to defend against claims for damages and other payment claims, usually on behalf of insurance companies and industrial companies. At the same time, he works in the field of social security law for the so-called service providers in the healthcare system in order to help protect their rights and legal positions.
Claudio Grass is a Mises Ambassador and an independent precious metals advisor based in Switzerland. He is a strong advocate of individual liberty and the protection of property.
Eike Hamer (born in 1975) passed his first A-Levels in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and later took his second in Hanover, Germany. After the basic military service he studied economics on the universities of Bonn, Osnabrück and Rostock, where he graduated as Bachelor of Commerce (Diplom-Kaufmann) in 2002 and afterwards earned his doctorate. Eike Hamer is a member of the "Institute of Middle Class Niedersachsen" in Hanover since 1996. He wrote the bestselling book "Was passiert, wenn der Crash kommt? - Wie sichere ich mein Vermögen oder Unternehmen" ("What happens when the Crash comes? - How to secure my assets and establishments") in cooperation with his father, Prof. Dr. Eberhard Hamer. In the book, the authors describe the consequences of a fundamental crisis in areas such as economy, society, education and culture. The reader is introduced to possible strategies for members of middle class and for the structure of assets. Special focus is set on gold.
Folker Hellmeyer started his career as foreign exchange trader with Deutsche Bank in Hamburg and London in 1984. Since 1995 the banking professional has been working with Helaba in Frankfurt and since April 2002 he has been chief analyst with Bremer Landesbank. Furthermore, Folker Hellmeyer is a popular guest in TV shows and expert discussions on finance, for example at n-tv or Bloomberg TV.
Hannes Huster performed a training as bank clerk and got actively involved in the stock exchange in 1996. In addition to working as an investment advisor in the field of shares for nearly ten years, he studied banking with the focus on investment securities. In 2001, he was honoured by the Bavarian State Government ("Meisterpreis der Bayerischen Staatsregierung").
Hannes Huster is publisher and chief editor of the exchange service "Der Goldreport" (www.dergoldreport.de). This report, founded in 2003, analyses upcoming companies showing strong growth in the commodity sector. It reflects this investment strategy for different risk classes in respective model portfolios. Since May of this year, Huster is also chief editor of the report "Husters Goldanalyse", which is available at the publishing house Investor Verlag in Bonn.
Gianni Kovacevic is an expert on modern energy, natural resources and emerging markets. Drawing from over 20,000 hours of experience, he is a sought-after public speaker who uses colourful descriptions and memorable stories to bring complicated modern themes to life. His recently published book was introduced to audiences around the world by way a one-of-a-kind coast to coast journey in an all-electricTesla - now credited as the world’s first zero emissions book tour. A self-proclaimed realistic environmentalist, he is a founding member of The CO2 Master Solutions Partnership and is frequently interviewed by the media. Fluent in English, German, Italian and Croatian, he makes his home in Vancouver.
Dr. Markus Krall is managing director with the German consulting Firm goetzpartners, where he is head of the financial services practice. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the financial industry from a consulting as well as from a line role perspective mainly with banking, primary insurance and reinsurance, and regulatory affairs.
As Chief Risk Officer and member of the executive board at Converium Reinsurance in Zürich, a global top 10 institution of its industry, he was part of the management team that successfully turned this company around.
Having started his career at Allianz AG Holding in Munich as a member of the executive board staff he focused on financial services and risk management advisory first at the Boston Consulting Group, later at Oliver, Wyman & Company as a Partner and Director and as a Senior Partner and head of the risk management practice at McKinsey & Company.
He has successfully lead a global portfolio of risk management and strategy assignments and projects covering banking and insurance in continental Europe, the UK, the US, Middle East, Asia and Australia. Among his clients were several of the global top 20 financial service providers, regulatory bodies, governments and supranational institutions.
Markus Krall is the author of the bestselling book “The Draghi-Crash” (an English edition is planned for Q4) and a regular columnist for several of Germanys leading print and online publications where he focuses on monetary policy and European affairs.
He holds a diploma and a doctorate in economics from Freiburg University and completed his postgraduate studies at the Imperial University in Nagoya, Japan (Meidai) with a doctoral thesis on Japanese capital markets.
Wilfried Kölz has done research on stock market cycles for approximately 20 years now. He writes articles and gives talks. In his market analyses and annual forecasts, Kölz concentrates on prognoses about the arrival of trend reversals for precious metals, interests, currencies and stock indices.
