The Founder (2001) and CEO for Pro-Edge Consultants Inc., a global publishing and production company focused on public markets that attracts half a million readers a month, Tracy Weslosky is also the Publisher and Sr. Editor on the following Pro-Edge sites: RareMetalBlog.com, PotashBlog.com, UraniumBlog.com, GraphiteBlog.com, GotGoldReport.com and CurrencyCountdown.com.

Tracy is the Managing Director of London-based REE Stocks Company Ltd. the proprietor of the REE Global Index (REEG), the REE Leaders Index (REEL) and the REE Shariah Index (REES). She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Frontier Rare Earths (TSX: FRO), is the Chairman and Founder for REE World and is the Sr. Editor for the semi-monthly REE World Report.

With over 20+ years of experience, Ms. Weslosky is an entrepreneur who owned her own boutique investment-banking firm for six years that was the basis for a business reality television series called, DealFlow. DealFlow aired from 2008-2010 on CNBC World and was broadcast on CNBC, CNBC affiliates, WealthTV, and many other television networks around the world.

Tracy graduated with a BA in Honours Political Science at the age of 19 from the University of Tennessee and her experience includes extensive involvement in the natural resource, oil and gas, energy, technology and entertainment industry sectors.

Sid Goldberg is a two-time, Daytime Emmy Award winning Director (2004, 2007), and four-time Emmy Award nominee. Since the onset of his Directorial career in 1993, Sid is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Gemini nominations in Canada.

Strong technically, cinematographically, and creatively, Sid’s greatest skill is with the people he works with — both on and behind the camera. His ability to bring out the best of someone’s character has earned him a global reputation.

Sid has worked with many top creative artists, including Susan Sarandon, Bridget Fonda, Samantha Brown, Mario Lopez, Elisha Cuthbert, Jay Baruchel, and many others. 

Based in Toronto, Sid possesses the highly coveted ‘O-1 Visa’ in recognition of his special skills, allowing him to work in the United States. With experience filming in over 40-countries worldwide, Sid is a veteran in the genres of Factual Entertainment, Unscripted Reality, Travel, Food, Children’s programming, Lifestyle, and Documentary. His shows are regularly seen on: HGTV, PBS, Travel Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, Food Network, Hearst Networks, CBC, Fine Living Network, as well as international broadcasters.

Mystery Hunters, where they travelled the world uncovering mysteries of life was one of Goldberg’s favorite shows to direct. In interviews, Sid describes Popular Mechanics for Kids as “inspiring and stimulating to the imagination”; and appreciates Passport to Europe for “exposing audiences to fascinating cultures, food, environments, and people beyond our own borders.”

Spiritual by nature, Sid has travelled the globe studying Philosophy and Meditation with some of the world’s leading spiritual Masters. It was in the Himalayas, India, where Sid lived and studied Vedanta Philosophy for nearly a decade. During this time, he was a Writer and Producer for the highly acclaimed documentary film, Sadhana: Back to the Source (1986): a “spiritual adventure of a westerner seeking enlightenment”. It played in over 100-cities in movie theatres across North America.

Sid has a BA Specialization in Communications from Concordia University. 

A passionate researcher, an intuitive intellect with a keen eye for detail; Karima Shajani is a Sr. Editor & Analyst for Pro-Edge Consultants Inc. Responsible for research, analysis, content development, compliance and a wide range of editorial responsibilities; Karima is in charge of in-house corporate communications.

With both a Master's degree in Environmental Applied Science and Management (2005) and an Undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning (2002) from Ryerson University, Karima has six years of experience in the field of responsible investing (industrials, utilities, chemicals and healthcare sectors). She has provided investment recommendations, undertaken original research and developed international case studies for various clients across Canada.

Karima is well-travelled, multi-lingual and dedicated to her family.

Robin Bromby, who is based in Sydney, has been writing about mining and commodities since the 1980s - and this involved covering the subject of rare earths in Australia in the 1990s, long before the general media recognized the importance of this story.

He began in journalism in 1962 on The Dominion, the morning newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, after editing a university student newspaper and has worked in newspapers in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.

He now writes a mining column for The Australian, the national newspaper.

He has also authored several non-fiction books on subjects ranging from World War I naval history through cricket, writers' guides and railways to a history of Australian agriculture.

Graeme Irvine has over four decades of experience as a professional commodities trader, on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the Editor of the London Irvine Report, a daily newsletter focused on economics, commodities, technology, oil, and the decline of the western fiat currency system on CurrencyCountdown.com. He is also a regular contributing editor to RareMetalBlog, RMBApps, and U3O8Blog.

He has worked on a wide range of commodities positions, from his early days Floor Trading sugar, coffee, cocoa, and wool for Gardner Lohman, through serving as the Metals and Overseas Markets Specialist for James Richardson & Co (UK) Ltd., and the European Commodities Market Specialist for Macro International Group Inc. He later acted as Foreign Markets Consultant for Vue Venir Associates, before breaking out as an Independent Commodities Trading Advisor to a range of brokers and FCMs, and a pre-IPO fund raiser and consultant for burgeoning technology companies in the UK.

Graeme has followed, worked in, and traded in the markets on both sides of the Atlantic, during the 1970’s booms and busts, and the financialisation of the west’s economies from 1982 onwards. He is a veteran, who has evolved with the financial system as it was perverted from capitalism to banksterism after the great Nixonian error of abandoning the dollar's link to gold.

Ian has be actively engaged in the rare earth/rare metals for over five years, including serving as Vice President Market Development for Avalon Rare Metals Inc. Ian currently serves as Market Development and Energy Advisor to Avalon. Ian was the original editor for RareMetalBlog, a founder of RareMetalApps and an editor for REE World Report.

Ian brings an extensive career in corporate management, international marketing and project management. His 35 years of industry experience includes terms as CEO of Process Products Limited (a specialist in supply management and provider of engineered mechanical and electrical components) and President & CEO of Ontario Hydro International Inc. Ian has also served on several new technology and alternative energy company boards.

Ian earned his MBA from the Schulich School of Business, a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering degree from McGill University, and an International Marketing diploma from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Gold Stock Trades Editor Jeb Handwerger is a highly sought-after, best selling writer syndicated internationally and known throughout the financial industry for his accurate, in depth and timely analysis of the general markets, particularly as they relate to the precious metals, nuclear and rare earth sector. Jeb utilizes both fundamental and technical analysis, especially the study of price volume action to understand the long term macroeconomic trends in the natural resource market. A true renaissance man Jeb has a strong background in stock market history, investment psychology, geopolitics, mining engineering and economics.

Jeb studied engineering and mathematics and received his undergraduate degree from University of Buffalo and a Masters Degree at Nova Southeastern University. Teaching technical analysis to professionals in South Florida for over 7 years, Jeb began a daily newsletter which grew to include thousands of readers from over 40 nations such as China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand amongst many others who are interested in the North American Resource Market.

Before moving into the financial arena Jeb was a professional actor and member of Screen Actor's Guild and Actor's Equity Association. Jeb appeared in several Broadway, TV and Film Productions. During this time in the theater, Jeb studied the art of technical analysis and charting, which he shares with his readers on a near daily basis.

Jack Lifton is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC. He is also a consultant, author, and lecturer on the market fundamentals of the technology metals, the term that he coined to describe those strategic rare metals whose electronic properties make our technological society possible. These include the rare earths, lithium and most of the rare metals.

Educated as a physical chemist, specializing in high-temperature metallurgy, Jack was first a researcher before becoming both a marketing and manufacturing executive. Finally, he became a metal trader specializing in the field of technology metals and of rare metals.

Today, after 48 years of industry involvement, he advises both OEM high tech industry and the global institutional-investment community, on the natural resource issues that impact either a proposed business model or a high-volume manufacturing plan for the mass market.

His work today is principally as a due-diligence consultant for institutional investors, looking into opportunities where rare and technology metals availability are a factor in determining the probability of commercial success of a metals-related venture.

Jack is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.

Gareth Hatch is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC. He is interested in helping people to understand the challenges associated with the growing demand for rare-earth elements [REEs] and other critical and strategic materials, and how those challenges affect market sectors throughout the entire technology supply chain. Gareth is also President and Director of Innovation Metals Corp, a provider of downstream processing and marketing services to the strategic-metals industry, with a particular focus on rare earths. He is based in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

For several years Gareth was Director of Technology at Dexter Magnetic Technologies, where he focused on the design & application of innovative magnetic materials, devices and systems, in order to solve real engineering problems. He led a stellar team of engineers who helped customers and clients in the aerospace, defense, medical, data storage, oil & gas, renewables and industrial sectors. He holds five US patents on a variety of magnetic devices.

Throughout his career, Gareth has been particularly interested in the strategic challenges faced by the permanent-magnet industry and its supply chain, in the face of growing demand for REEs as well as the increased use of permanent magnets in the areas of renewable-energy production and electric vehicles.

A two-time graduate of the University of Birmingham in the UK, Gareth has a B.Eng. (Hons) in Materials Science & Technology and a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Materials, focused on rare-earth permanent-magnet materials. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Gareth is the Founding Editor of Terra Magnetica and is Newsletter Editor of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He is Founder of the Magnetism & Electromagnetics Interest Group and Strategic Materials Network, both at Linkedin.com.

Stephanie Bugg is Senior Programmer for Pro-edge Consultants Inc. and has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunication engineering and programming industry. She graduated from Dalhousie with her Electrical Engineering degree in 2000.

She headed south to Atlanta where she was part of the team who designed a tire and component tracking system for a major US car manufacturer and helped install and test equipment at service providers. She also has designed telecommunication systems for several large buildings including U.S. Federal Courthouses and Data Centers as an RCDD. As well, she helped manage data for several large banks and phone companies for an email and mail marketer.

Stephanie designs and programs software systems and oversees the GotGoldReport and REE World.

Yuriy is an IT professional with solid hands-on experience in all phases of full Software Development Life Cycle. He is thoroughly versed in Object Oriented and Client/Server technologies, CRM/ERP/eCommerce components design and development, DB architecture, operation and administration.

Yuriy is familiar with IPTV Broadcasting Systems, WMS streaming technologies and implementation them in eCommerce websites.

He have realized middle-scale service company CRM system which implemented in IPTV broadcast, video on demand services and web development companies.

Yuriy is one of creators of large-scale Enterprise CRM/ERP System software which is currently used in 5 clothing factories, 2 bakery, 15 commercial service companies. The system includes the following modules: Customers, Contracts, Inventory, Orders, Billing, Purchases, Payments, Human Resources, Payroll, General Bookkeeping/Accounting, Manufacturing Operations and Manufacturing Sequences, Cloth Cutting Optimization, Assets Depreciation and Rent, Statistics, Reports.

Yuriy Bodnaruk holds a Master Degree in Physics graduated in Lviv State University (Ukraine).

Resourceful, meticulous, and efficient Asher Berube is the Blog Manager for Pro-Edge Consultants, He deals with insuring content is placed on the blogs on regular basis while making sure it is from reliable sources and well presented. Working with a wide variety of topics from Rare Earth Elements to uranium, he remains focused on providing accurate and reliable information.

He also has an interest in film in which he worked on some student projects, assisting with pre-production research of the television business series DealFlow, as well as some work as a production assistant.