Team - The Gold Advisor

Jeff Clark

Founder and Editor

It glistened like only real gold can, that shiny nugget in the bottom of the pan, stirring the prospector in Jeff’s late father. And that love for gold and silver—or rather, discovering gold and silver—quickly transferred to Jeff. At one point the family owned mining claims in California, Arizona, and Nevada, and his Dad became a prolific prospector. Jeff carved his own path, focusing more on investing in gold and silver, starting as an analyst for Doug Casey’s firm in 2007. Combined with his love of writing, Jeff quickly became a globally recognized authority on precious metals. He is the founder of TheGoldAdvisor.com, speaks regularly at precious metals conferences and serves on the advisory board of Strategic Wealth Preservation in Grand Cayman, a bullion storage facility. You can follow Jeff on X (formerly Twitter).

Peter Krauth

Editor, Silver Stock Investor, Silver Premium

Peter Krauth is a former portfolio adviser and a 20-year veteran of the resource market, with special expertise in precious metals, mining, and energy stocks. Peter writes about what he is buying and selling; he takes no pay from companies for coverage. He has contributed numerous articles to Kitco.com, BNN Bloomberg, the Financial Post, Seeking Alpha, Streetwise Reports, and Investing.com, and is a frequent speaker and moderator at mining conferences. He holds a Master of Business Administration from McGill University. The Silver Stock Investor newsletter is Peter’s key contribution to the The Gold Advisor world, and it is a welcome one. Silver is a world unto itself, with its own equity metrics, macro forces, and dedicated investors. Silver also usually outperforms gold in a bull market. For all those reasons, silver deserves its own newsletter – and until SSI no such newsletter existed! Peter covers the whole silver spectrum, from physical to major miners to junior explorers, in a monthly letter with a bi-monthly update. You can follow Peter on X (formerly Twitter).

Jeff Valks

Senior Analyst, Gold Advisor

Jeff Valks’ passion for investing started while working as a radio update anchor for Canada’s preeminent sports station, TSN in 2011. Late one Friday night, he muted his mic after his last update of the evening, when it occurred to him that if he focused on stock markets as much as he focused on sports statistics the results were more likely to benefit his future.

Studying capital markets was an instant love affair for Jeff. While his friends partied on weekends, he was knee-deep in research. In 2012 he began making his own trades, catching the likes of Tesla and Facebook at a time when analysts were bearish about the future juggernauts.

His success paved the way to become the Director of Content for dividend.com, ETFdb.com, and TraderHQ.com. In late 2018 he built his own course on the basics of money management and investing, which he still teaches today at the community college level.

He’s still big on baseball statistics and he’s quick to point out that Ty Cobb mixed sports with investing quite brilliantly. In fact, it was after reading about Cobb’s successful investment in a copper mine that led Jeff to investigate the riches of pay dirt — which is what brings him home to The Gold Advisor.

Jenn Alcee

Executive Administrator

Jenn is excited to be part TheGoldAdvisor team in an administrative and marketing role. As an executive administrator she brings over a decade worth of successful experience in providing support to executive level staff and managing office operations.

Always efficient, Jenn handles a wide range of administrative tasks, and works to improve operation systems.

Outside of the office, Jenn uses her organizational skills to plan local events and group travel. In the summer months, you can find Jenn sipping local, award winning wine from her hometown in the Okanagan. Otherwise, she loves spending time in her home outside Vancouver, with her husband, daughter, and close friends.

Jenn is happy to serve the clients of TheGoldAdvisor with the same passion and professionalism she brings to every project or venture.

Marc Godard

IT Consultant

Marc is a lifelong entrepreneur, developer and technologist. He studied Cognitive Science as a special field concentration in Artificial Intelligence at Queen’s University’s School of Computing. With about 30 years of programming experience, Marc has designed and built numerous complex and custom systems, applications and web applications, including CRM Systems, CMS, e-commerce and large corporate web properties including leading projects for Canada’s large telecommunication companies. Possessing excellent business and technical acumen, he has acquired, revamped and reformed more than a dozen companies and provided professional consultation to many more. Marc was also involved in blockchain technology for over 4 years, and helped plan and start blockchain companies including Equibit Group, where Marc was CTO for the first year of the company before moving onto other projects. An avid believer in gold, Marc has created multiple company websites for gold-related businesses, including TheGoldAdvisor.com.