The Sovereign Society's highly qualified Council of Experts, consist of carefully chosen professionals located in select tax and asset havens around the world. Our experts have spent their careers discovering the best global investments, the safest tax havens and the most secure devices in which to protect your assets.
Listed below are just some of the specialists we've identified as experts in the world of offshore finance. But to access detailed information about our experts - including contact information - you need to become a member of The Sovereign Society. Become a Member Today!
Access to The Sovereign Society’s Council of Experts is one of the most-cherished benefits of our members. Our global network of banks, investment specialists, financial consultants, and legal professionals have proven themselves, over many years, and to thousands of Sovereign Society members, as being the best in the business.
Erika Nolan - Executive Director
Erika Nolan began her career in the health care industry as a public relations and marketing executive for a US$3 billion, publicly traded company. She acted as the company spokesperson, directed all marketing strategies and oversaw the integration of new company acquisitions. Ms. Nolan directed a change leadership initiative for Integrated Health Services to improve overall company operations and increase U.S. market share.
In 1998, she was recruited to be the Executive Director for The Sovereign Society, an offshore, asset protection and international finance organization. She has brought with her an extensive knowledge of marketing and operational expertise, which has offered a high record of success. Ms. Nolan travels extensively throughout Europe, the Caribbean and Central America.
John A. Pugsley - Chairman
Widely respected for his commitment to freedom, privacy and other libertarian ideals, John Pugsley is one of the Sovereign Society’s co-founders and currently serves as its Chairman. John’s long and successful career in finance and publishing began in 1975 with his personal monthly commentary on economic and political events, Common Sense Viewpoint, which boasted 30,000 subscribers at its peak.
Following his first book Common Sense Economics, which sold 150,000 copies, his second book, The Alpha Strategy, hit the New York Times bestseller list and remained on it for nine weeks in 1981. In 1988 he began a 10-year run publishing the John Pugsley's Journal, an investment and economic newsletter that covered a broad range of political, economic and investment topics. Today, in his capacity as Sovereign Society Chairman, John is continuously discovering outstanding companies around the world that are unknown, suppressed, and, most-often, totally avoided by brokers and advisors.
Eric N. Roseman - Investment Director
Eric Roseman has covered the global markets for 15 years, as both a money manager and investment editor. He recently became the Investment Director for the Sovereign Society. Eric serves as editor for The Sovereign Society's Commodity Trend Alert, an investment alert focusing on commodity based securities. Eric's talents include blending a dozen or more alternative investment funds to produce consistent returns to traditional asset classes and making commodity- based recommendations with huge upside and limited downside.
Eric also continues to serve as President of Montreal-based E.N.R. Asset Management, Inc.,specializing in alternative portfolio management. E.N.R.'s strategies are highly diversified and include non-traditional hedge fund managers that trade global markets and asset classes long and short. Eric advises managed accounts, funds and partnerships that invest with thetop names in the industry, including Global Asset Management (GAM), Momentum, AHL-ED&F Man, Tudor Jones, Medallion, Caxton and Trout Trading.
You can follow Eric's analysis of global markets through his free blog, Roseman's Eruptions: Uncensored Rants About Unbelievable Values.
Robert E. Bauman, JD - Legal Counsel
Robert Bauman is a former Member of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland, (1973-1981). He is also a former federal official and state legislator; Member, Washington, DC Bar; Graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (1964) and the School of Foreign Service (1959), Washington, DC. Robert currently serves as legal counsel for the Sovereign Society.
He has authored or co-authored Forfeiting Our Property Rights, The Cato Institute, (1995) (with Hon. Henry Hyde); The Offshore Money Manual 2000, Sovereign Society, (1999); The Oxford Club Wealth Protection Series, (1995-00). He also edited Forbidden Knowledge, (Sovereign Society 1999), authored The Complete Guide to Offshore Residency, Dual Citizenship and Second Passports, Sovereign Society, (2000); and has written articles and reviews for The Cato Institute and The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and National Review. Robert has also been interviewed on CNBC for his insights on offshore havens.
You can read Bob's views on politics and the offshore world through his free blog, That's The Way It Looks From Here.
Mark Nestmann, L.L.M. - Wealth Preservation and International Tax Planning
Mark Nestmann is a journalist with more than 20 years of investigative experience and a major contributor to The Sovereign Society’s monthly members-only newsletter, The Sovereign Individual. He has also authored over a dozen books and many additional reports on wealth preservation, international tax planning and offshore investing.
Mark serves as president of his own international tax-consulting firm, The Nestmann Group, Ltd. The Nestmann Group provides wealth preservation and international tax planning services from around the globe. Mark is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (member of subcommittee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, Committee on Taxation) and member of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2005, he was awarded a Masters of Laws (LL.M) degree in international tax law at the Vienna (Austria) University of Economics and Business Administration.
You can read about Mark's views on protecting your privacy in America in his free blog, Preserving Your Privacy and More.
Ashish Advani - Exotic FX Alert
Mr. Advani has an MBA in finance and is a qualified accoun¬tant in several countries. As a global treasurer, corporate controller and currency strategist for Fortune 1,000 companies, he has traveled exten¬sively to China, India and southeast Asia, hedg¬ing currency and enterprise risk. For six years, he also worked as an advisor to the Finance Minister of Oman while managing the largest real estate portfolio in the country. As the editor of Exotic FX, Mr. Advani heads the world’s leading trading service covering emerging-market currencies.
You can read about Ashish's thoughts on currencies around the world on his free blog, Advani's Market Advantage.
Sean Hyman - Editorial Contributor
Sean has close to 15 years experience as a stockbroker, manager, and trader. He became interested in the financial markets at a young age and decided to work for Charles Schwab in Orlando, FL. He later went on to run a technical analysis “call in” line for their million dollar + clients and active traders. After that, he went on to work at Forex Capital Markets (FXCM) as an FX Power Course Instructor. There he taught online traders around the world each day how to trade currencies. In addition to this he wrote market commentaries for FXCM, DailyFX and Istockanalyst.com. Through the years, he’s refined his trading approach through the use of fundamental/technical analysis and intermarket analysis.
He is a regular contributor to The Currency Capitalist and The Sovereign Individual, our monthly global investment and asset protection newsletters.
Andrew Packer - Investment Analyst
Andrew Packer is a welcome addition to our editorial team. He has a degree in economics and has built a reputation as a thorough, skeptical and talented risk analyst on behalf of leading brokerage houses and financial firms.
Andrew is a devoted follower of Austrian economics and specializes in identifying undervalued companies, with solid balance sheets on the cusp of an upswing in their industries.
Friends of the Sovereign Society
TAX AND ASSET PROTECTION
Colin Bowen (Isle of Man) – Annuities
Michael Chatzky (U.S.) – Asset Protection Attorney
Rainelda Mata-Kelly, LL.M (Panama) – Panamanian Attorney
David Melnik QC (Canada) – Tax and Asset Protection Advisor
Humberto Pacheco (Costa Rica) – Tax and Asset Protection
Gideon Rothschild (U.S.) – Asset Protection Attorney
Derek R. Sambrook (Panama) – Trust Provider
Jack W. Flader, Jr. (Asia) - Asset Protection
Offshore Banking
Robert Virjhof (Switzerland) Adrian Hartmann (Canada) – Swiss Banking Consultant
Offshore Investment
MaryAnne Aden (Costa Rica) – Offshore Investment/Precious Metals and Currencies
Pamela Aden (Costa Rica) – Offshore Investment/Precious Metals and Currencies
Michael Checkan (U.S.) – Offshore Investment/Precious Metals
Neil George (U.S.) – Offshore Investment/Asset Management
Larry C. Grossman (U.S.) – Offshore Investment/Asset Management
Ron Holland (U.S.) – Offshore Investment/Personal Freedom
Marc Sola (Switzerland) – Offshore Investment/Insurance
Dr. Erich Stoeger (Austria) – Offshore Investment/Asset Management
Robert Vrijhof (Switzerland) – Offshore Investment/Asset Management
Hans C. Webber - Advisor for WHVP
Personal Freedom
Jonathan Wright MD (U.S.) – Personal Freedom/Medical Expert
Hubert & Rita Jongen (Belgium) – Personal Freedom
Christian H. Kalin (Switzerland) – Citizenship and Residency Expert
Michael Ketcher (U.S.) – Personal Freedom
Pierre Lemieux (Canada) – Personal Freedom
Michael Lightbourn (Bahamas) – Personal Freedom
Vince Miller (U.S.) – Personal Freedom
International Publications
Stuart Goldsmith (U.K.) – International Publications
Norman Rentrop (Germany) – International Publications
William Woods (Bermuda) – International Publications
