Meet the Team
I became interested in the precious metals world as a very young adult
after watching this incredible video series by Mike Maloney called
"The Hidden Secrets of Money". In
this series he draws attention to the fundamental flaws in
the U.S monetary system and draws the conclusion that gold is money
and always has been.
The precious metals space is fairly small so I didn't envision myself
being able to find a job in it. I did meet Larry Hilton at an event
at the Capitol in Salt Lake City while interning with the
Libertas Institute. He
had a small side business serving the United Precious Metals
Association with gold and silver accounts. About a year later
I wrote a blog about his business that
ended up being read by over a quarter million people on Zerohedge.com. The
article resulted in an explosion of interest in the United
Precious Metals Association (UPMA) and I used that as leverage to
successfully get a job with Larry. He agreed to start me out
full-time for $10 an hour which was a steep pay cut. I don't
remember how I sold my wife on this but as a result, I ended up
working in the space that I was interested in the most.
As the first full-time employee I was able to help grow UPMA from
being an organization with 400 members to one with 25,000. I
also negotiated myself into a management position. In 2018, I
worked on a gold crypto project called Quintric where I served on
the board of directors.
The Goldback project to me feels like a possible answer to Mike
Maloney's problem that he presents in his series. Now most of
my attention is focused on the Goldback which was set up under a new
company: Goldback Inc.
Read Our Story of Making the Goldback
Kevan Mills is, to his core, a people person and a man that growing up in a farming
community understands the value of hard work. He has always loved talking to
people and started his first enterprise at the age of 8 mowing his neighbors
lawns. Six years later he started in sales selling roses to his neighbors
husbands for Valentines Day and was so successful he has been an entrepreneur ever
since. His first company was founded when he was twenty three and he has been
a business owner in four different companies over the last 25 years. Seventeen
of those years in Door to Door marketing.
Anyone with a sales background knows that Door to Door is one of the most difficult
sales jobs with the highest turnover. Kevan excelled because strangers liked
him, clients loved him, and other salesmen wanted to be him. Kevan understands
people and works like a farmboy from sun up to sun down. Kevan has said many
times that he is not the most talented salesman in the world, he just works like he
wants to be. Kevan stepped away from a company he started eight years ago to
join the Goldback team because he shares the vision of what Goldback could be and
even more he believes in the Goldback team. Kevan has one unbreakable rule
in business. To never work with someone he doesn't trust. Kevan implicitly
trusts the Goldback management team.
At 45 years old Kevan lives with his wife in a blended family with their combined
children in Utah. He loves being a father and young grandfather. It's
probable that if dealing with him you will hear dad jokes and puns a plenty, and
if you don't laugh Kevan will tell the joke again and if you do laugh he'll repeat
the punch line. Kevan works hard, laughs hard, and is excited to be part of
the Goldback Team.
Mr. Du Moulin has been involved in the acquisition of precious metals for his
personal account for many years. This has been fueled by concerns over the
U.S. monetary system and its' inherent excesses.
Mr. Du Moulin received his MBA (emphasis in Finance), from Brigham Young University
(1985) and his BA from the University of California, San Diego (1983). He also
earned the esteemed Certified Management Accountant designation from the Institute of
Management Accountants in the 1990's and served as President of the San Jose chapter
of said institute in the late 1990's. Mr. Du Moulin brings a rich and
diversified work history across various industries and has served in senior financial
management positions at Unisys Corp, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin and JDS
Uniphase. Over the last several years Mr. Du Moulin has tailored his large
corporation finance background to serve smaller companies, serving as CFO of
Attraction Studios, Quintric Holdings Inc., and now as a member of the Board and
acting CFO of Goldback Inc.
Joseph Oehlschlager has a long history of working within team environments and loves helping
to build the trusted comradery that comes with it. Joseph played many team sports in his youth,
both through High School and College. Sports and being Student Body President helped Joseph to
develop relationship skills early, which he believes makes it easier for him to work with many
different personality types. Joseph is passionate about working together with others as a team
to succeed and meet mutual goals. Joseph believes that business and life are all about
cultivating healthy relationships.
Joseph loves math, data, and analytics. Being born and raised on a small farm in southwestern
Missouri, Joseph adheres to the state’s nickname “The Show-Me State” with a slight twist. That
being “Show me the numbers.” Joseph is at his core a simple fellow that tries to keep forefront
in his thoughts what one of his old football coaches used to preach constantly as the acronym
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). The most important things in Joseph's life are God, Family, and
Country. For Joseph, it doesn’t get much simpler and better than that.
Joseph has a long track record of fulfilling both leadership and support roles professionally.
He worked for nearly a decade with the world leader in the Payroll, Human Resources, and Benefits
industry. Afterwards, Joseph spent a few years working with a company that helped other businesses
manage their brand, supply channel, and sales on the Amazon.com marketplace. Joseph has been
looking for a young company to help build up and help make it successful. Goldback Inc fits this
criteria nicely and is Joseph’s admitted dream job.
Beginning in 2009, Mr. Hilton conceptualized, drafted and then shepherded through the
Utah Legislature the Specie Legal Tender Act, which was passed into law in 2011, with
important amendments adopted during the 2012 session. By that statute, Utah became
the first state in more than one hundred years to formally recognize gold and silver
coinage as legal tender. Since then he has actively championed monetary reform
measures in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas—with the latter three
states having adopted meaningful specie legal tender legislation.
Mr. Hilton formed Citizens for Sound Money in 2010, and the Utah Monetary Summit in
2011, which in its first year was attended by participants from more than a dozen U.S.
states and half a dozen countries. In 2013, he co-founded the United Precious
Metals Association (UPMA) to promote the commercial framework necessary to implement
Utah's new monetary system. He also serves on the Gold Standard Now advisory
board of American Principles in Action, a Washington D.C. based public policy think
tank, as UPMA General Counsel, and as the Exchequer of the Royal Court of Breifne.
Mr. Hilton holds both Juris Doctorate and Masters of Business Administration degrees
from Brigham Young University. Admitted to both the Utah and California bar
associations, he has practiced in the areas of insurance coverage and defense,
commercial litigation, business formation, bankruptcy and Constitutional law for more
than 30 years. He currently holds insurance licenses in all 50 states and is a
tribunalized cover holder with Lloyd's of London.
Larry also wrote this
legal argument for the Goldback as a state legal tender.