Career
Two Decades at the Front Lines of Retail Metals
Carl began his career in the precious metals industry in 2002 as an account executive in Los Angeles, California. Over the next two decades, he worked directly with retail investors to help them safeguard their wealth through physical gold and silver.
As a retail metals specialist, Carl earned a reputation not just for performance but for client education, a distinction that ultimately shaped his thinking about where the industry fell short.
Before precious metals, Carl founded National Integration Corporation, a technical services company that supported Silicon Valley technology companies through the 1990s. He ran the company from 1990 to 2001, employing roughly 300 people, and sold it to Cupertino Electric in 2001.
Media & Broadcasting
A Nationally Recognized Voice in Hard Assets
Throughout his career, Carl brought his knowledge of precious metals to audiences across the country through radio and media appearances.
Co-hosted with John March on the Salem Radio Network. The program focused on precious metals as a long-term strategy for wealth preservation, reaching a nationwide audience during a period of significant economic uncertainty. The program regularly featured prominent industry voices, including contributors from Kitco, one of the most widely followed precious metals news platforms in the world.
Carl has appeared as a guest on the Dennis Prager Show and numerous other programs, speaking to the role of hard assets in a sound personal finance strategy. Throughout his career he has also authored industry newsletters distributed to a private client base, reflecting a long-standing commitment to investor education beyond the transaction.
VaultRunner
Then and Now
Carl first formed VaultRunner, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as an early effort to connect the growing cryptocurrency economy with the physical precious metals market, designed to allow retail investors to purchase gold and silver using digital currencies. The idea was ahead of its time. Cryptocurrency was still in its early stages, conversion infrastructure was limited, and the market wasn't yet prepared for what VaultRunner set out to offer.
He set the idea aside, though he never abandoned it.
Carl re-established VaultRunner as VaultRunner, LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, with an entirely new architecture. The platform is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of physical precious metals stored in qualified third-party depositories, with all transactions facilitated through licensed escrow.
VaultRunner never takes custody of metals or funds, a structural choice that protects buyers, safeguards sellers, and removes the dealer markup that has defined the industry for generations.
Philosophy
VaultRunner was founded on the simple belief that buyers and sellers of physical precious metals deserve a marketplace where prices are discovered openly, transactions adhere to an independent standard, and no single party profits from acting as an intermediary.
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