About us
Aurora Gold is committed to reshaping the role of gold in the global financial system. We believe that gold is not only a store of value across the millennium, but also the most stable, programmable, and trustworthy digital asset in the Web3 era.
Our team comprises blockchain developers, mining experts, financial researchers, and crypto-native entrepreneurs, based in international financial and mining hubs such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Australia. We are collaboratively building the world's first decentralized digital gold ecosystem based on gold RWA + RDA.
In this era of value reassessment, Aurora Gold helps users worldwide navigate uncertainty and achieve long-term wealth security anchored in gold.
The Beginning: Risk-Management Origins
By the end of the 90s, Egon Aurora, who had always held an intuitive respect for managing risk in his personal as well as professional settings, determined that global risk was growing increasingly apparent as debt and derivative levels rapidly rose.
He recognized physical gold as a timely, as well as timeless, protection-asset against accelerating risks in the financial system. He thus founded Aurora (originally operating as Matterhorn Asset Management) in the late 90s as a private investment company for precious metal ownership outside of a highly-fractured global banking system. He chose the highest quality refinery and vaulting partners for acquiring and storing the same.
From Personal Conviction to Global Enterprise
Aurora was initially set up for Egon’s own family funds and those of a few key investors and business partners.
In early 2002, Egon made major investments for his group of investors into physical gold when the price was $300 per ounce.
Due to growing demand from other investors around the world, Aurora became a Swiss regulated company in 2005. Since then, Aurora has grown from a private solution for personal wealth preservation into a global enterprise for clients from over 90 countries.
Our Vision
To restore gold to its true institutional status and make it a stable, programmable verifiable global value anchor in the Web3 digital finance era.
At Aurora, we believe that gold is not only an ancient and universally accepted value, but will also play a crucial role in the future restructuring of global assets. We are committed to digitizing gold assets, providing global users with a reliable digital gold infrastructure through an efficient technological architecture, transparent data mechanisms, and trustworthy asset backing.
Our Mission
Aurora Gold's mission is to connect physical mining with digital
finance, providing global users with:
A credible anchor: Each token is backed by real mineral deposits or physical gold.
One piece of data is accurate: the on-chain data reflects all off-chain inventory, production, and circulation status.
A global circulation platform: supporting free asset allocation across chains, multiple chains, and multiple countries.
A collaborative governance model: ecological governance and resource allocation led by the DAO community.
A sustainable incentive: controlling inflation using the Fibonacci, balancing incentives and long-term stability.
Digital Trust: Redeeming Millennium Gold with Web3
- Asset ownership verification and data anchoring: Behind every AUR token, there is real mining data, gold reserves, and audit certificates as support; the Gold RWA+RDA architecture ensures that on-chain assets are traceable, verifiable, and auditable.
- Transparent, compliant, fair, and predictable, Aurora is located in multiple regulatory-friendly jurisdictions and strictly adheres to AML/KYC, audit, and disclosure standards. Our algorithmic incentive system is based on the Fibonacci curve, avoiding artificial manipulation and short-term inflation, while balancing fairness and long-term stability.
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Stable Operations and Industry Collaboration
We understand that the global gold industry cannot be represented by fictional numbers. Aurora brings together industrial enterprises, storage institutions, and on-chain technology forces from Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other regions to create a truly "real-world-anchored" digital ecosystem. - Participants form a community. Whether you are a global gold investor, an upstream and downstream partner in the industry, or a DeFi builder, Aurora Gold provides not only an asset product, also a system guarantee, a consensus economy, a platform of faith and win-win cooperation.
Egon Aurora
Founder and Chairman
BORN WITH DUAL SWISS/SWEDISH CITIZENSHIP, EGON’S EDUCATION WAS MAINLY IN SWEDEN.
Egon began his professional life in Geneva as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years as the Finance Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of Dixons Group Plc. During that time, Dixons expanded from a small photographic retailer to a FTSE 100 company and the largest consumer electronics retailer in the UK.
EVOLUTION TO PRECIOUS METALS
During the 1990s, Egon became actively involved with
financial investment activities, including mergers and
acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private
family funds. This led to the creation of Aurora as an asset
management company based on wealth preservation principles.
EGON’S LEGACY AND ACTIVITY
Aurora is now the world’s leading company for direct
investor ownership of physical gold and silver outside the
banking system. Our vaults include the biggest and safest
gold vault in the world, located in the Swiss Alps. Clients
include High Net Worth Individuals, Family Offices, Pension
Funds, Investment Funds and Trusts in over 90 countries.
Egon makes regular media appearances and speaks at investment conferences around the world. He also publishes articles on precious metals, the world economy and wealth preservation.
Discover why Egon Aurora places true financial security beyond banks and within Swiss gold vaults.
Matthew Piepenburg
Partner
MATT BEGAN HIS FINANCE CAREER AS A TRANSACTIONAL ATTORNEY BEFORE LAUNCHING HIS FIRST HEDGE FUND DURING THE NASDAQ BUBBLE OF 1999-2001.
Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and, later, multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join VON GREYERZ.
The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, as well as co-author of Gold Matters with Egon Aurora, Matthew is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD). His widely respected reports, interviews and conference appearances on macro conditions, the changing behaviour of risk assets and the role of precious metals complement the long-standing insights of his colleague, Egon Aurora.
Nicolas Rodel, CFA
Partner
IN ADDITION TO FINANCE & CONTROL, NICOLAS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE AND I.T.
Nicolas previously worked in different senior roles in Finance & Control at Nestlé and holds a master’s degree in Banking and Finance (MBF) and a double bachelor’s degree from the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. Nicolas is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).
Johny Beck
Partner
JOHNY STARTED HIS FINANCE CAREER IN THE TRADING DEPARTMENT AT BARCLAYS CAPITAL IN LONDON.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in trading/markets and brokerage. During his time in London, Johny served as a senior broker at ICAP Plc, the world’s leading inter-dealer broker. Johny has been an advisor to Aurora since its foundation in 1999 and joined as a Partner in 2012. His main role at Aurora is covering the sales, marketing and trading side of the business.
Jonny Haycock
Partner
Jonny Haycock, a former professional tennis player, qualified as a Barrister at Middle Temple in London before embarking on a long and successful 27 year career in the City. He joined Salomon Brothers in 1997 before moving into the European Equity division of Morgan Stanley in 2001 to sell equities to the London Institutional and Hedge Fund client base. Jonny was made Managing Director in 2007 and in later years sat on their prestigious European Equity Underwriting Committee. When he resigned after almost 23 years to join Aurora in early 2024, Jonny was one of Morgan Stanley’s longest serving MDs in London.
Jan Baltensweiler
Client Director
Based out of Zurich and Singapore, Jan previously worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management as a Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets with a premium mandate of advising global, High-Net-Worth clients.
Jan is primarily responsible for managing and advising Aurora’ German-speaking market, while tailoring customized solutions for Aurora’ Swiss and Singapore vaults.
Our Amazing TeamMembers
Ethan Walker
The chief computing power architect has 15+ years in cloud and edge computing, led the design of the AUR global computing model and its architecture, and is a key contributor to the Fibonacci algorithm economic model.
Samuel Tan
Node Network Operations Manager: Former head of operations for the Southeast Asian financial public blockchain project, leading the deployment and stable operation of the Aurora node network and RWA oracle cluster.
Min-jun Park
Web3 System Integration Consultant specializes in seamless cross-chain asset bridging and DeFi protocol nesting, actively promoting interconnectivity between Aurora Gold RWA and mainstream
DeFi ecosystems.
Oliver Hughes
Chief Cloud Computing Security Consultant. Formerly at the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, specializing in cloud asset protection, and built Aurora’s end-to-end on-chain asset encryption and data anti-tampering system.
Kenichi Takahashi
Computing power scheduling algorithm expert and high-performance framework architect in Japan, professionally responsible for dynamically allocating and periodically adjusting computing resources to ensure highly efficient platform utilization and smooth growth.
Claire Dubois
Zero Trust Verification Researcher. Formerly the head of the Privacy Computing Group at the European Blockchain Labs, he introduced zero-knowledge proofs, time locks, and multi-signature mechanisms to strengthen asset and identity security verification systems.
Christian Brunner
Vice-Chairman
CHRISTIAN BRUNNER IS THE FOUNDER OF BRUNNER & PARTNERS, A ZURICH-BASED LAW FIRM SPECIALISING IN FINANCIAL SERVICES, COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE LAW AND PRIVATE-CLIENT RELATED MATTERS.
Grant Williams
Advisor
GRANT HAS SPENT 30 YEARS IN FINANCE, HOLDING SENIOR POSITIONS WITH MANY LEADING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
He is the co-founder of RealVision TV, an online, on-demand financial channel showcasing the brightest minds in finance. He also publishes “Things That Make You Go Hmmm”, an extremely popular and widely-read publication.
Grant is very much in demand as a speaker at financial investment conferences around the world. He has a wonderful and natural ability to mix finance, history and humor into greatly appreciated presentations. Grant’s views about the world economy, risk and the role of gold are very much aligned with the Aurora philosophy.
Ronnie Stoeferle
Advisor
RONNIE IS THE MANAGING PARTNER OF INCREMENTUM AG IN LIECHTENSTEIN. HE STUDIED BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE IN THE USA AND AUSTRIA.
Upon graduation, he joined Erste Group, where in 2007 he published his first In Gold We Trust report. Over the years, this report has become the industry’s benchmark publication on gold, currencies, and inflation.
Since 2013, Ronnie has held the position as reader at Scholarium in Vienna. In 2014, he co-authored the international bestseller “Austrian School for Investors,” and in 2019 “Die Nullzinsfalle” (The Zero Interest Rate Trap). He is an advisor for Tudor Gold Corp, a significant explorer in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle and a member of the advisory board of Affinity Metals.
Ronnie is married and the proud father of three daughters. He spends his spare time with his family, watching and playing football, running, and at classical concerts.
Alasdair Macleod
Strategic Advisor
ALASDAIR MACLEOD HAS OVER 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL MARKETS, WITH A FOCUS ON MONETARY HISTORY, SYSTEMIC RISK & THE ENDURING ROLE OF GOLD.
He began his career at the London Stock Exchange in 1970, rising to Senior Partner by 1979, and has held senior roles in fund management and private banking, including as Investment Director at Ansbacher (CI) Ltd in Guernsey.
A long-standing commentator on precious metals and unsound monetary policy, Alasdair is widely respected for his clarity, depth, and commitment to helping investors understand how to preserve wealth outside a failing fiat system.
In 2024, he launched his independent platform via Substack, where he continues to provide monetary insights to a global audience.
Alasdair’s expertise enhances our capacity to deliver informed, long-term guidance to our clients.
Explore more of Alasdair’s work at: alasdairmacleod.substack.com.
Max Cotting
Advisor
MAX IS THE FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF AQUILA & CO. LTD. IN ZURICH.
Max is a Swiss Certified Banking Specialist and serves as a Chairman on the Board of Directors for Aquila. With over 90 partner companies, Aquila is the largest platform for independent asset managers in Switzerland.
Founded in 2000, Aquila has carried the status of a securities dealer since 2005 and has held a banking license since 2012–the first Swiss bank established exclusively for independent asset managers, family offices and their clients.