Stijn Schmitz brings rich experience in capital markets, gained through managing a value-investment focused hedge fund and making private investments in the commodities sector. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Business Economics from the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he concentrated on capital markets.

Mr. Kettell is a co-founder of New Found Gold Corp. (2016) and of Palisades Goldcorp Ltd. (2013), a Canadian resource investment company. As Chairman and CEO of New Found Gold Corp., he is responsible for developing the strategic plan for the discovery, financing and continued exploration of the Queensway Project.
In his role as Chairman and CEO of Palisades, Mr. Kettell has been the driving force behind its inception, leading to its current stature as a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment Company, while incubating and developing several companies under the Palisades umbrella.
Mr. Kettell is an active participant in the resource sector as an investor and company builder, focused on the discovery of mineral deposits both in Canada and the United States. He is founder and CEO of Nevada King Gold Corp., founder of Radio Fuels Resources Corp., co-founder of EarthLabs Inc. (previously Goldspot Discoveries), and co-founder and director of Golden Planet Mining Corp.

Ryan is the editor for Palisades. He has an extensive background in I.T. and Internet Infrastructure including wireless communications. He is interested in Austrian economics since 2001 and prefers physical precious metals, primarily silver. For the past ten years, he has acted as a consultant for wireless Internet Service Providers. In the past he has also worked as a survey assistant on various mines in Northern British Columbia. He currently resides at a ranch in the southern end of the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of Mexico.