American Gold Reserve

As one of the founders of Old Glory Mint, Reed has been instrumental in the creation of American Gold Reserve. A graduate of Brigham Young University (1992, Dean's Scholar), his professional experience has centered around managing financial services businesses. He started out as a successful mortgage loan officer in a small company, eventually moving on to become Treasurer, then President, of the Utah Association of Mortgage Brokers, an organization he also helped found. Seeing the "storm clouds on the horizon" in the lending industry, and in the economy in general, Reed transitioned into the precious metals industry where he helped build and continues to manage one of the largest-capacity private mints in America. In addition to a fascination with investing in general, and precious metals in particular, Reed enjoys water sports, traveling, and making music (he plays anything with keys on it, and blues harp as well). He's been married to his wife Lori for over 20 years, and they have 2 children. He also speaks Japanese (do they buy gold there, too?).

Widely regarded as one of the great minds in creative financing and deal structuring, Wayne has been a leader in the real estate community for more than 30 years. He has developed, built or owned properties or has acquired real estate paper assets in 29 states in the U.S. He is nationally known for his ability to structure profitable transactions regardless of market conditions, and is widely regarded as one of the premier writers, speakers and teachers in that field. As a frequent guest speaker for Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Company, Wayne serves as part of the Rich Dad advisory team. In 2009, He co-authored The Real Book of Real Estate with Robert Kiyosaki (have a look at chapters 3, 7 and 22 for more insight into Wayne's revolutionary way of thinking about deals). When he's not working (when, exactly, is that?), Wayne enjoys flying, relaxing at his cabin in the mountains, and spending time with his family. He is a Utah native and has 7 children.

Ron learned the value of hard work, growing up on a large dairy farm in western Pennsylvania. After high school, Ron went on to receive his bachelors degree from Tampa University and MBA from City University. Ron's corporate America experience includes: Sr. Director/Gen. Mgr. of ADP Dealer services, one of the largest service bureau in the United States. Ron moved up the corporate ladder again by becoming the Vice President of Sales and Marketing and later CEO of Sanyo Electronics Computer/research and development subsidiary and member of Sanyo's multi-billion dollar electronic empire. Ron has 30 years of senior experience in the MLM industry to include: Co-founder of one of the largest service bureaus in the mlm industry, where he helped develop hundreds of compensation plans and provide state of the art information solutions to nearly a thousand companies and a number of billion dollar international operations. Ron has been CEO of two network marketing companies, one of which has annual revenue in excess of 150 million. Ron has been master distributor for three different mlm companies and he has built large organizations, providing monthly revenue in the millions of dollars.

With an educational background in public relations and marketing, Michael has over 15 years of sales and account management experience. His sales career began at LexisNexis, the leading global provider of content enabled workflow solutions in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement and academic markets. Michael has consistently surpassed revenue and sales goals while maintaining impeccable client retention rates. He has created and managed inside and outside sales and account management teams that supported Fortune 500 companies as well as nationwide nonprofit organizations. Michael has experience in implementing organizational processes of business rules analysis, system configuration guidelines and ongoing operational procedures including pricing, accelerated product delivery, support and training.

At the beginning of 2011 Michael received the offer of a lifetime and joined Old Glory Mint as the Director of Sales. He has brought his consultative sales experience to the individuals and organizations that are looking to build financial security and hedge against disaster. Integrity, honesty, humor and surpassing the expectations of all he associates with through hard work and effective communication are his core values. Michael is thrilled to be on the AGR team as Sales Director, where he will personally handle large orders and institutional clients.

Michael has been married to his wife Lynette for 15 years and they have two children. In his spare time you will find him at little league baseball and basketball games, piano recitals, midnight movies, serving in his community and passionately supporting his favorite athletic teams.

Chad Spence has 18 years of experience in both consulting and architecting enterprise software solutions for a myriad of industries. Chad began his career with a start-up that was eventually purchased by Equifax and still thrives today using many of the technologies developed in the early 90s. In 1999, Chad started Fusion Group Consulting with two of his colleagues from Equifax, where they secured a long-term relationship with their former employer, and forged new closely aligned partnerships with heavyweights such as the prestigious Big 4 firm, KPMG LLP.

These collaborative efforts have served a “who’s who” segment of Corporate America with very compelling results. Chad began focusing on the network marketing industry in 2004 and recruited the development team that set industry records by launching Agel Enterprises in 12 countries on day one. Using the proprietary software Mr. Spence and his team developed, Agel expanded into over 50 countries. Many companies continue to use this software platform to run their international and domestic ventures. In 2007, Mr. Spence branched into the unsecured loan industry and by 2009 had developed an industry-best loan management system used to manage numerous loan portfolios and lending operations. This lead to a merger with Direct Assistance Corp, an employee Financial Assistance Program, where Mr. Spence was named Chief Technology Officer and equity partner. Chad left his full-time active role as CTO in early 2011 to focus on carefully valuated network marketing endeavors.

Chad is married with one son, three step children, and six step grand-children. In his spare time, Chad enjoys following and participating in sports and spending time with his family.