$ELECTRUM-SILVER · Two silver companies in Electrum portfolio slated for IPO next year

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Episode 35: Thomas Kaplan - Chairman and CIO of The Electrum Group

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Two silver companies in Electrum portfolio slated for IPO next year

2025-09-11 · 3 company · 5 thematic

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thomas kaplan

Founder and chairman of The Electrum Group, one of the world's largest privately held portfolios of gold and silver assets. Largest private collector of Rembrandt works. Founder of Panthera, global wild cat conservation nonprofit. PhD in Modern History from Oxford. Known for contrarian commodity bets: silver from $3.50, oil to $100, gold to $3,000-5,000+. Sold Leor Exploration to Encana for $2.55B in 2007. Controls NovaGold with John Paulson as partner.

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“I have two silver companies that are going public next year. So, you know, I've always silver's my first love.”

—thomas kaplan

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