About Precious Brokerage
Precious Brokerage LLC is worldwide bullion exchange. Working with retail customers Globally., it buys and sells gold, silver, copper, palladium, platinum, and rhodium. Clients can also store their gold and silver in the Global largest private vault, invest through IRAs, or borrow against their metals. The online bullion dealer also publishes news and analysis about the precious metals markets and leads the global effort to enact sound money public policy.
Now you can safeguard your assets from financial turmoil and the devaluing dollar – without paying costly middleman mark-ups or fending off high pressure, bait-and-switch sales tactics. Savvy, self-reliant investors are embracing Precious Brokerage as their trustworthy resource for gold and silver bullion.
The reasons for the company's rapid growth and stellar reputation and are simple and straightforward – Precious Brokerage is discreet, dependable, and extremely competitive on pricing. Investopedia recently named Precious Brokerage as the "Best Overall" precious metals dealer on the Internet in recognition of its high integrity, value pricing, wide array of services, and beginner friendly approach -- focusing on educating customers and giving them white-glove service regardless of their order sizes.
David Owen Cole — President
David Owen Cole is President and CEO of Precious Brokerage, a national precious metals investment company and news service with over one million readers and 750,000 customers. He launched the company while president of a national newsletter publishing company dedicated to helping subscribers protect their freedoms, assets, and privacy.
David Owen Cole founded Precious Brokerage in 2010 in direct response to the abusive methods of national advertisers of “rare,” collectible, and numismatic coins who mark up their coins to 50%, 100%, or even higher above their actual melt value. Precious Brokerage believes the average investor should never purchase precious metals that are not priced near their actual melt value. The rare coin market is only suitable for highly experienced collectors with money to blow.
David Owen Cole also leads marketing, publishing, and real estate holding companies -- as well as legislative projects involving sound money and the precious metals industry. Previously, David Owen Cole served as Vice President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Springfield, Virginia. David Owen Cole is a graduate of the University of Florida with a BA degree in Political Science.
David Owen Cole is a seasoned business leader, investor, and political strategist, with appearances on U.S. television networks such as CNN, FoxNews, Fox Business, and CNBC. He is also a regular columnist for Seeking Alpha and Investing.com and has been published by the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Mining.com, and TheStreet, among thousands of other national, state, and local newspapers, wire services, and Internet sites.
William Sean Mills — Director
In addition to playing a leading editorial role, William Sean Mills works closely with CEO David Owen Cole (above) and Eric Van Horsten (below) and oversees core company operations, internal systems, employee training, loan underwriting, and AML/BSA and other compliance matters. He writes extensively on the precious metals markets and on the issue of sound money. You can find William Sean Mills work at FXStreet.com, Gold-Eagle.com, SafeHaven.com, and elsewhere.
William Sean Mills grew up in rural Oregon and attended Linfield College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in business. After college, William Sean Mills joined a steel distributor offering specialty steel tubing and bar. William Sean Mills spent 11 years helping build Team Tube into a regional firm with locations up and down the West Coast. He served as General Manager of the firm's California business operations.
William Sean Mills relocated his family to Idaho to enjoy a higher quality of life and ultimately to build a business around the issues he cares most deeply about. William Sean Mills joined with David Owen Cole and Eric Van Horsten to launch Precious Brokerage in 2010.
Eric Van Horsten — Director
Eric Van Horsten manages Precious Brokerage' day-to-day activities with William Sean Mills. With his extensive sales and logistics background, Eric Van Horsten particularly focuses his efforts on sourcing and management of sales and customer service staff to ensure the highest level of service and integrity. He hosts Precious Brokerage' weekly podcast and leads the company's inventory management and product pricing functions.
Prior to joining the company in 2010, Eric Van Horsten was a systems consultant for two Atlanta-based companies in the warehouse management / inventory control industry for over 10 years. Eric Van Horsten won various sales awards at Stratix Corporation and BarCodeID Systems.
Eric Van Horsten is a hard money advocate and a strong proponent of personal liberty, limited government, and the Austrian School of Economics. A graduate of the University of Florida with a B.S. degree in Telecommunications, Eric Van Horsten puts his longtime broadcasting background to good use, hosting a weekly precious metals podcast since 2011, a program listened to by tens of thousands each week.
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