As gold prices soar to record levels, China and India are at the forefront of gold demand, while geopolitical uncertainties loom over the global market. This trend suggests that gold could remain a preferred ‘safe haven’ for investors.

 Join us on the 15th May for an update on the yellow metal as we hear from an industry expert for an overview of the trends influencing the sector as a whole and what this means for the miners and their stakeholders. This will be followed by presentations from gold companies each with compelling investment opportunities.

Speakers:

Alex Scanlon

CEO·Barton Gold

Alex is the founder of Barton Gold and a financial economist with ~20 years’ experience in consulting, structured finance and mining investment. He was previously Managing Director of PARQ Capital Management and a Director with Lusona Capital where he focused on corporate advisory and principal investments in the natural resources sector. Barton Gold is an ASX, OTCQB and Frankfurt Stock Exchange listed Australian gold developer targeting future gold production of 150,000oz annually, with ~1.6Moz Au JORC Mineral Resources and 100% ownership of the only regional gold mill in the renowned central Gawler Craton of South Australia.

Cameron Parry

Founder & CEO·Tally Money

Cameron Parry is an entrepreneur and public company driver who has built numerous start-ups, pre-IPO and stock market-listed companies across multiple industries. Cameron was the Founder and inaugural CEO (2014 to 2016) of London Stock Market AIM-listed natural resources investing company Metal Tiger PLC (LSE: MTR); Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the world’s first blockchain industry company to successfully IPO on a public stock market – Coinsilium Group Limited (AQUIS: COIN); and creator of the vertically integrated gold company Lionsgold Limited (LSE: LION) that evolved into Tally Central Ltd – the monetary authority and platform technology provider of the tally currency and monetary system, of which Cameron is the Founder & CEO.   Cameron is also Joint-CEO of London stockbroking firm, First Equity (FCA ref 124394) and is an FCA approved person (FCA No. CJP1234).

Lord Ashbourne

Director of Content, Mining at Edison Group

Lord Ashbourne graduated from the University of Oxford as a chemist, joining Cazenove in the early 1990s. After brief stints working in pharmaceuticals and oils, he settled down as Cazenove’s mining analyst, spending three years in Johannesburg, among other places. He moved to T Hoare Canaccord in 1999 as a specialist mining salesman and also worked for two years as Cluff Mining’s mineral economist, responsible for global target asset valuations. In 2003 he moved to New York, where he developed and marketed a black box model for valuing large-cap equities, before returning to join Edison in 2007. He has extensive media experience, having written for MoneyWeek, The Business, Shares, Investors Chronicle and The Evening Standard (among others), presented on LBC and been a guest on BBC One and BBC World.

He is the author of Shades of the 1970s, a gold report available on Edison’s website.