Mark
O’Byrne

My degree was in History and Greek & Roman Civilisation, which is an unusual training for a career in wealth preservation using precious metals, and a more useful one than it sounds. Monetary history is largely a record of the same mistake repeated: currencies debased, confidence lost, empires overextended. Gold is what people have reached for each time. In late 2001, I began buying gold coins and reading everything I could find on gold and monetary history, well before I had founded my first company. I am still on the same path, and still helping people protect and grow their wealth and create abundance with the monetary metals.

I founded GoldCore in 2003 and built it into Ireland’s largest gold and silver broker. I sold my shares, resigned as a director and exited in 2020, by which point it had more than 20,000 registered accounts and over 5,000 transacting clients across more than 140 countries, over €1 billion in sales and more than €185 million in stored assets. At gold and silver prices today, those precious metals are worth around €3 billion and €555 million.

For over sixteen years I wrote a daily market update on gold, silver, currencies, investments, finance and markets: the discipline of having to say something true about the market every single morning, through bull runs, crashes and long stretches of nothing happening at all. In March 2006 I was named Analyst of the Year at the 13th MoneyMate & Investor Magazine Awards, for warning about the Irish and global property and debt bubble. It was not a popular call at the time.

My passion for protecting people from currency debasement through owning the monetary metals, and the international readership the daily update built, put me in front of most of the financial press — Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones MarketWatch, the BBC, RTÉ and the Irish Times — and on conference stages in Ireland and abroad. The questions have barely changed in all that time. Currencies lose value, confidence wavers, and people want to know where to put the savings they cannot afford to lose.

After leaving GoldCore I began Health Wealth Gold — consulting, speaking and empowering people to look after their wealth and health in mind, body and spirit. It is a practice rather than a company, and now sits within Tara Gold and Silver Limited. That company, trading as Tara Coins, followed in 2022, and Tara Gold AG, which I co-founded in Canton Zug, in 2026.

The Swiss company is where the whole path ends up: physical gold bullion, fully allocated and fully segregated, held in the client’s own name in Zürich gold vaults operated by a trusted Swiss vaulting company who is a LBMA Full Member. Specific bars, identified by serial number — not a paper claim, not a fund unit, not a line on someone else’s balance sheet. A quarter of a century watching how people lose money, and how they do not own gold and silver in the safest ways, taught me exactly how to build a structure that preserves and grows a client’s wealth.