Dominic Picarda
Associate Editor, Investors Chronicle

Investors Chronicle  Dominic Picarda has written for Investors Chronicle for seven years and became Associate Editor in 2006. As well as editing the IC’s trading section, his recommendations also appear in the weekend edition of the Financial Times. He holds both the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Market Technician qualifications.

James Turk
Founder & Chairman, GoldMoney

James Turk is the founder and chairman of GoldMoney (www.goldmoney.com), which since its launch in 2001 has become a leading provider of gold, silver and platinum bullion to buyers worldwide.  It is presently storing in vaults in London and Zurich over US$900 million of precious metals owned by its customers located in more than 100 countries.

James Turk has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics.  He began his business career with The Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong.  In 1980 he joined the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader.  He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987.

James Turk has written several monographs and numerous articles on money and banking and is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (Doubleday 2004), which has been updated for a paperback version entitled The Collapse of the Dollar (www.dollarcollapse.com).

Marcus S.A. Grubb
Managing Director, Investment, World Gold Council

Marcus’ key role is to drive forward the World Gold Council’s investment market strategy for gold, catering for the needs of private banking professionals, family offices and endowments, institutional investors, their respective advisors and retail investors worldwide. He leads the World Gold Council’s investment programme globally.

Marcus has over 20 years experience in the investment industry and a strong background in financial products, in particular global equities and derivatives. As global head of equities for Rabobank he built and ran the global primary and secondary equities business. Marcus was the founder Chief Executive of Swapstream, the largest inter-bank dealing exchange for interest rate swaps with €8bn of tradable liquidity which is now owned by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Prior to this during the mid-1990s, he was a top-rated investment strategist at UBS, Salomon Brothers and SBC Warburg, Marcus graduated in 1983 from Oxford University with top first class honours in History & Economics.

Neil Jamieson
UK Sales, ETF Securities

Neil Jamieson has been a member of the UK & Ireland Sales team at ETF Securities since February 2008. His involvement with ETFs goes back to 2000, when as Head of Marketing at comdirect he launched the initiative to promote commission free trading in ETFs within self-select ISAs and latter PEPs. Neil’s professional experience cuts across the public and private sectors, including analyst/strategy roles at Sheppards (now Rensburg Sheppards) and the International Energy Agency. He holds degrees from the University of Reading, Johns Hopkins University and the University of London (Sloan Fellow, London Business School).

Jason Cozens
Chief Executive, Gold made simple

Jason is an innovative entrepreneur with over 15 years experience of digital interactive technology in both consumer facing and business to business environments and has developed bespoke eCommerce and service delivery platforms for many business to business and business to consumers clients across Europe.
Jason’s keen interest in Gold and connections within the gold investor community worldwide, led to the development of GoldMadeSimple’s unique eTrading platform, which allows investors to easily buy and sell physical, allocated gold bullion from LBMA members, for storage or delivery and manage their accounts online. GoldMadeSimple.com’s fresh approach includes a transparent price per product (which includes all delivery and year 1 storage costs), online debit card payment facilities, iPhone applications and ‘plain speak’ summaries of the latest global Gold news.

Declan Cosgrove
Managing Director, Gold made simple

After a 10 year career in financial services sector, Declan has spent the last 14 years building a successful group of Internet based businesses, (Bite Digital Group) specialising in product and service delivery online, securing hundreds of corporate clients including Virgin, Unilever, EMI, GE Capital, Canon, the Institute of Cancer Research, Macmillan Publishers, Irish Government and Britannia/Thomson Holidays (TUI).

As private gold investors themselves, Declan and Jason were frustrated with the inherent complexities of the gold bullion retail market and decided to set up Goldmadesimple.com to bring a ‘fresh’ approach to investing in gold, by using their skills in Internet marketing and service delivery, to drive down prices and offer investors a ’simple’ pricing structure and order process, matched with ’safe’ product storage and delivery, provided by established LMBA members.

Goldmadesimple.com is now one of the UK’s leading retailers of physical Gold bullion.