With a life-long interest in geopolitics and the financial issues that emerge from these relationships, Chris Berry founded House Mountain Partners in 2010. Berry spent 13 years working across various roles in sales and brokerage on Wall Street before founding House Mountain Partners. He holds an MBA in Finance from Fordham University, and a BA in International Studies from The Virginia Military Institute. Berry is also a member of the Canadian American Business Council.

Joachim Brunner founded IR-WORLD.com Finanzkommunikation GmbH in 1999. His company publishes a very successful stock exchange newsletter, the "Smallcap-Investor", and is with its "IRW-Press" news distribution service a leading news agency servicing foreign companies. Since 2002, Brunner has also been CEO of Portfolio Invest Anlageberatung GmbH, an asset management company based in Salzburg, and fund manager/advisor of a mutual fund and a large investment fund.

After graduating from university, Ronald-Peter Stöferle joined Vienna based Erste Group, covering Asian Equities. In addition he started writing reports about gold back in 2006. The upcoming annual gold reports "a shiny outlook" and "in Gold we trust" drew international coverage on CNBC, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. In 2009 he took over coverage for crude oil. Stöferle is a Chartered Market Technician and Certified Financial Technician and manages two goldmining-funds.

Thom Calandra is the chief-editor and commentator of CBS MarketWatch and FT MarketWatch. Thom is a writer, researcher and investor. He also started Ticker Trax at Canada's Stockhouse.com, a service for natural resource investors. Thom visits each mine/company he reports on and conducts his own research. Thom also is a principal in the San Diego firm Torrey Hills Capital, an investor outreach service and publisher of BabyBulls.com.