Meet The Hosts
Tom is a private investor from western Canada with a background in oil and gas. In 2014 he identified the top of the housing cycle and sold his home to invest in the junior resource sector. He gained a libertarian and contrarian perspective in 2013 when he attended an entrepreneurship course in Europe and has been studying markets of all types ever since. He operates a successful business servicing the oil and gas sector in Alberta and host of Palisade Radio.
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.
Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT, MFTA is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold.com, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock selection for the sophisticated investor. His work has been featured in CNBC, Barron’s, Financial Times Alphaville, Kitco and Yahoo Finance. My Masters Thesis, which earned me the MFTA designation was published in the International Federation of Technical Analysis Journal. I’ve been a speaker at PDAC, Cambridge House and most recently at the Metals Investor Forum.
Ryan 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. He has also worked as a survey assistant on various mines in Northern British Columbia. Currently, he has a keen interest in the cryptocurrency markets and is associated with the Komodo Cryptocurrency Platform.