Anglo Far-East Professional Team
Philip Judge
Board of Directors: Mr. Judge is one of the founding directors of AFE. He has been involved in international business for more than 25 years. He is third generation of a family that has had substantial involvement in the commodities and precious metals markets. Philip has extensive commodities experience having worked in, researched, written and lectured on the base and precious metals and commodities markets for more than a decade.
Philip has always been strongly focused on the resources and tangibles assets, ‘products of the earth’ sectors. He serves as a trustee, investment strategy advisor and researcher with numerous qualified sophisticated investors, family and corporate trusts, and private venture capitalists worldwide. He sits on the board several investment and financial services companies including the Anglo Energy Company, and served on the Board of Directors of Pryme Oil and Gas, a public company traded on the Australian and US markets.
Simon Heapes
Board of Directors / Treasury Operations Manager: Mr. Heapes has a business background in the logistics and petroleum transportation industry. He has spent over 10 years as a market research analyst concentrating on economics, precious metals, energy and resources markets.Mr. Heapes has been with AFE since 2002 and was appointed as an executive director in 2005.
His research and analysis has been primarily focused on the market fundamentals of supply and demand, and in more recent times he has specialized in commodity and resource securities. He has written and lectured on the precious metals and resources markets for many years.
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Alex Stanczyk
Chief Market Strategist: Mr. Alex Stanczyk manages institutional and family office relationships for the AFE group, which provides logistics support for direct physical investment in gold and silver bullion.
Mr. Stanczyk writes and lectures globally on the topics of geopolitics, global economics, and the significance of gold as money in the economic system today from a private bullion custodian perspective. He consults at the institutional level in the specialist field of gold acquisition and storage for regulated funds, and with advisers of heads of state.
Mr. Stanczyk is the Editor of Anglo Far-East’s Global Insider. He has served as the CEO of a publicly traded US Company and currently serves as a Director on the boards of several private companies.
Marquelda Isaza
Board of Directors: Ms. Marquelda Isaza has worked extensively as Legal Council in the Investment Banking, private, corporate and sectors.She has served as a Attorney Negotiator in National Office of International Trade Negotiation, Foreign Trade Vice-ministry and Ministry of Commerce and Industry for the country of Panama and has represented Panama at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ms. Isaza has a Masters in Business Administration with specialization in International Commerce and Marketing and a Degree in Law and Political Science.
Giuseppe Altieri
Director:Born 9/3/1965 & resident in Switzerland. Giuseppe studied & qualified in International Logistics having worked with International Distribution Companies Siuch As TNT & DHL.
For the past number of years, Pino has helped the position of International Account Manager for SwissPost. He is reponsible for large account holdings and is often supporting his clients by travelling to their corporate office whether it be in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Panama, Sydney or Singapore.
Darren Kelly
Head of IT and Secure Systems: Darren has worked in a consulting capacity with AFE since its inception in the 1990s. His background is in IT systems engineering, accounting, business management, and administration. Darren’s systems company has developed and maintains AFEs secure online accounts system.
Ryan Messer
Advisory Board: Mr. Messer is versed in international corporate business with over ten years of experience in the energy sector managing field operations and assisting in the formation of an evaluation team for oil & gas prospects. Mr Messer is the President and co-founder of the Sterling Energy Group of companies and sits on the Board of Directors for several public and private affiliated investment companies.
Graduating from the University of Central Florida, Ryan received a Bachelors degree in Business with a major in Marketing and Finance.
Justin Pettett
Advisory Board: Mr. Pettett has worked successfully as a business analyst, broker and Managing Director of medium sized businesses for the past fifteen years, the last eight specifically in the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. He is the Managing Director and CEO of Australian Securities Exchange listed Pryme Oil and Gas Limited, a Director and Founder of Palau Pacific Exploration Pty Ltd and Director of Northern Alliance Energy Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Anglo Energy Company Inc.
Mr. Pettett has broad experience as a public company director and CEO with positions in senior management and steering committees, including Australian Financial Services Licensee’s among other regulatory compliance entities. His expertise is in the area of business development, investor relations, capital raisings and financial and administrative management.
Corporate Governance
AFE was built on the strong ethical and moral foundation of accountability to corporate elders. AFE’s board of elders, both past and present, have provided the company with the unique advantage of stable and strong independent oversight, insight and modeling from a board of experienced and successful corporate businessmen. AFE honours and sincerely thanks its past council for their invaluable contribution to the company in its formative years. The foundation laid by our past and retired elders is engrained in the fabric, management and operations of the company to this day.
