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Financial career

Norman Meier’s financial career is really impressive. He has been in financial industry for over 18 years, he has a MBA and Ph D in Human Behavior, he has built up client base of over 3000 clients worldwide, he has 15 finance diplomas and designations, he has raised over $400 million for all kinds of financial products from private clients and $600 million from institutional clients. He has been licensed in Switzerland, Canada and the US to sell securities and his record is absolutely clean and perfect.

Expert in Natural resources (precious metals) and oil and gas

Norman Meier has over 10 years of experience in the gold exploration and production industry. He has become a real specialist who not only understands the financial and business side of a public company but as well as the actual technical knowledge and processes in the gold industry. He (or though his companies) held over 25 different projects all over the world. Most of these projects were gold, silver, copper and molybdenum. Norman Meier took two gold companies public in USA and Germany, managed over 10 geologists and owned projects in Canada, USA, Mexico and Peru.

Norman Meier has furthermore become an expert in oil and gas investments. He has options and investments in several oil and gas deals all over North America. His network in the oil and gas business is extensive and he has become a professional investor in this industry.

International financial experience

Norman Meier’s international financial experience is extensive. He has traveled all over the world and speaks five languages fluently. He has owned companies or done business in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Peru, USA and various other countries. Norman Meier is knowledgeable in financial transactions and international law.

Private Equity Specialist

Norman Meier helped to finance dozens of private companies. He is actively involved in taking companies public in the stock market and is an expert on pre-IPO financings, private placements, Reg. S and Reg. D Filings, etc.

He has a huge client base in Europe and North America and has a network all over the world. His international experience and connections to institutional clients and financial institutions can help companies to achieve their targets.

Norman Meier is one of the top experts in Private Equity financings in the world.

Education

Norman Meier is highly educated. He has a BBA, MBA and Ph D in Human Behavior from Newport University USA and Switzerland. His MBA has a concentration in “Interpersonal Relationship & Communication” and his Ph D is concentrated in “Personnel Management”.

He had originally received the Swiss Matura Typus D (languages) and went to the University of Zurich to study Psychology. After his service in the army, he received a Financial Planning Designation of AWD Switzerland where he worked for over six years. He continued to journey to Canada where he finished several courses and received designations in from the Canadian Securities Institute (equivalent to FINRA in the USA): Canadian Securities Course (CSC), Derivatives Fundamental Course (DFC), Conduct & Practices Handbook Course (CPH), Options Licensing Course (OLC), Ethics Case Study Course, Technical Analysis Course (TAC), Investment Management Techniques (IMT), Options Strategies Course (OSTC), Portfolio Management Techniques (PMT), Agricultural Markets – Risk Management (ARM) and he became a member of the FCSI – Fellowship of the Canadian Securities Institute. Norman Meier also received the following two financial designations Canadian Investment Manager Designation and Derivatives Market Specialist Designation.

In 2011 he became licensed with FINRA in the US and got his Series 7 and Series 63 license. He is officially licensed to sell securities in the US and has a clean record. In order to get licensed in the US a person must undergo a FBI security check otherwise that person cannot get licensed. Norman Meier has never had an issue with the law and has never arrested in his life.

Director of public companies

Norman Meier was the founder and director of several public companies. He founded and built companies from the ground up, found investors, listed companies, acquired over 25 exploration projects, hired geologists, technical staff, sales people, and created market awareness through marketing strategies in the stock market.
He funded private and public companies with $40 million. One company was valued at over $300 million in market capitalization at one point, another one was worth over $200 million in the market, and one company went from $0.10 to $0.50 during his involvement as a director.

About Norman Meier

Norman Meier has been an investment professional since 1995. He has held executive positions with top-tier global investment firms such as MAN Investments and AWD in Switzerland, and Canaccord Capital Corporation in Canada. He also founded a Swiss financial services firm, which has been licensed by the Swiss Banking Commission and registered with a self-regulatory organization. Mr. Meier has well-established relationships with institutional investors in both North America and Europe.
Today, at the age of 38 he owns several businesses and is working as a consultant for several companies in the areas natural resources (he is a gold specialist) and oil and gas investments.
Norman Meier grew up in Zurich / Switzerland and speaks five languages. His first language is Swiss German. He is happily married, has three children and lives in America. He has furthermore founded the Wylie Foundation – a charity to support animals in need.

Norman Meier was the CEO of a FINRA licensed broker dealer in USA and CEO and president of a two public mining exploration companies. He was the founder and major shareholder of several gold and uranium exploration companies in the US and major shareholder of three sales organizations in Switzerland.

He built up a global team of over 60 employees in Switzerland, USA, Canada and Mexico. He was the president and founder of a Swiss financial services company with a license from a self-regulatory organization and a license from the Swiss Banking Commission.
He had raised a total of over $35 million to fund private US companies and a total of $400 million from private investors and $600 million from institutional clients for mutual funds, hedge funds and other financial products.

Financial Advisor

Norman Meier was a financial advisor in Canada for Canaccord Capital – the largest independent Brokerage firm in Canada. He established and managed portfolios, integrated risk management strategies, evaluated performance models for existing portfolios, analyzed global portfolios, researched markets and products, provided investment advice, traded in all kinds of securities including options, built a client book, provided statistical analysis for his clients, solved financial problems, developed and implemented systems designed to generate better returns and raised money for private placement financings. He was also in a top management position for AWD Independent Financial Services in Europe. He hired and fired people, presented seminars, contributed to strategy of company, motivated staff, led different employees with a different level of training and experience, trained and supervised several team-leaders, devoted time to develop key people, contacted and acquired new candidates and led company presentations.
His annual production was of $70 million and he was among top 20 out of 700 employees in Switzerland. He increased the number of good quality employees and therefore company’s growth and decreased fluctuation of staff. He coached and supervised 25 people, coordinated meetings, appointments, training and personal employee evaluation talks, supervised and supported team-leaders, communicated with employees and encouraged them to achieve better results, evaluated personal plans, set short term and long term goals, kept track of success and commitments. In short, Norman Meier developed many valuable employees for the company and coached employees to reach personal goals and identified key people for future leading positions.

He became the Nr. 1 “Team leader of the year 1997 of AWD Europe” out of over 1000 team leaders. He trained, supervised and instructed employees in selling process, assisted employees in achieving goals and budgets, evaluated employees’ training needs, innovated performance strategies. Norman Meier sold securities and insurance products through Financial Planning. Acquired customers by telephone, analyzed the customer’s financial situation, created a financial concept, convinced and advised customers to improve personal financial situation, provided service for clients.

He has a proven sales experience from over 3000 sales appointments and high satisfaction of customers.

Past positive information about Hemis Corporation (gold exploration company)

Hemis was a success for initial investors. Norman Meier was president of Hemis Corporation, a gold exploration company that started it business in 2005. He managed to get over 500 European investors and most of them invested in the initial financing round at $0.27 ($0.55 before forward stock split). The first listing price was at $0.80 and the stock rose up to $3.50. The stock traded mainly between $1.00 and $1.50 for about 12 months and over 50 Million shares were traded in the first year. The company was valued at over $300 Million at its highest point and Norman Meier was the main shareholder. Almost all initial shareholders were able to sell their shares in the market at a profit. Some even participated in the capital guarantee program and sold half of their share position back to the company for the initial investment sum that they had invested. There were a lot of happy investors who profited from Hemis.
Unfortunately, due to the economic depression in 2008 and the consequently the falling stock price, the company like many others as well had to stop its work programs in 2010.
Even though Hemis eventually had to stop its operations, it was a success story. Many investors made a lot of money and were happy to be invested into the Hemis stock.

Past positive information about Tecton Corporation (Uranium exploration company)

Tecton was a success for initial investors. Norman Meier was president of Tecton Corporation, an uranium exploration company that started it business in 2006. He managed to get over 500 European investors and most of them invested in the initial financing round at $0.50. The first listing price was at $1.25 and the stock rose up to $2.00. The stock traded mainly between $0.80 and $2.00 for about 12 months and over 1.2 Million shares were traded in one day at around $0.85. The company was valued at over $200 Million at its highest point and Norman Meier was the main shareholder. Almost all initial shareholders were able to sell their shares in the market at a profit.
Unfortunately, due to the economic depression in 2008 and the consequently the falling stock price, the company like many others as well had to stop its work programs in 2010.
Even though Tecton eventually had to stop its operations, it was a success story. Many investors made a lot of money and were happy to be invested into the Tecton stock.
Seminars of Norman Meier

Having attended a lot of seminars himself at a very young age, Norman Meier received a training about success and psychology during his childhood. His father Prof. Dr. Eddie Meier is a professor in psychology and gave seminars and taught courses all his life. Norman Meier was able to benefit from his father’s experience and personally came across and met other successful teachers like Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Vera Birkenbihl, Bodo Schaefer just to name a few.

Norman Meier started teaching sales techniques, communication, financial planning, real estate financing and mutual fund basics to large groups of people. He also has given sales seminars to various companies and usually presented seminars in front more than 50 people at a time.
He arranged presentations, explained, guided and instructed participants in financial planning, house financing, basic security knowledge and investment strategies, trained staff in communication, sales and rhetorical skills, advised how to sell financial products to customers and gain trust, coordinated exercises and qualified participants to use sales techniques.

The result: He improved employee knowledge of several high profile companies and increased their sales volume.

External sales trainer for MAN Investments

Norman Meier is a specialist in the hedge fund industry. Norman Meier was the sales manager for the global sales support team of MAN Investments and later became an external sales trainer for the world’s number one hedge fund leader. During his time at MAN Investments he increased the result of the global sales support team in a four months sales cycle from $42 million to $254 million. The team was raising money from financial institutions over 600% more in a period of one year.

He and his sales team were raising money from financial institutions, banks and brokers throughout the world from an intermediary network, developing business from lead generation projects, maintaining relationships with financial institutions and motivating them to sell our hedge funds, providing sales and admin support, explaining about hedge fund strategies, futures markets, product structures and fees, day-to-day management of the team and support to regional sales offices, analysis of intermediary sales and redemptions, training & development and monitoring of the Global Sales Support team members.
The result was impressive. He increased the team sales target from $42 million (October to January 2003) to $91million (February to May 2003) and then to $245 million (June to Dec 2003), he created a good working environment and a high level of motivation and team spirit. He conducted a successful integration and training of new sales people and led an admin team successfully.

Sales Organizations and affiliations

Norman Meier has owned his own sales organization and taught regular sales people who to sell private equity products to private clients. He owned three organizations with average of 25 sales people in each organization.

He had also built up a sales team of about ten sales people for a FINRA licensed broker dealer in Florida and California. He trained them and taught them everything they needed to know to get licensed for a Series 7 and 63.

Norman Meier has very high standards and besides having an impeccable record with FINRA and all other financial regulators around the world he was also awarded with the membership of the Fellowship of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI) which is the highest honor in the financial services industry in Canada. His former business Private Equity Trust GmbH has a license from the Swiss Banking Commission (EBK) to sell investment products and is member of the largest Swiss self-regulatory organization (SRO): VQF – Verein für Qualitätssicherung von Finanzdienstleistungen.

Author of 5 books

Norman Meier has published five books to date. Four of those books are in German and the latest one just came out in 2012 and is in English.
His first book is called “Vorher – nachher” (before and after) and is a fitness book. He wrote this book over ten years ago because he competed in two bodybuilding competitions himself.
His second book is called “Den eigenen Traum leben” (live your own dream) and is about finding your own way in life.
His third book is called “Der Traum vom eigenen Business (the dream of your own business) and is about turning an idea into a business.
His fourth book is called “Verkaufspsychologie” (Sales psychology) and teaches sales people the basics about selling and psychology including sales techniques and methods.
And his latest book is called “Start your own business and live your dream” is his first English book and talks about how to become a millionaire with your business ideas.
More information about Norman Meier can be found on www.normanmeier.com

Wylie Foundation

Norman Meier is the founder of the Wylie Foundation. The Wylie Foundation is a charity that helps animals in need. It supports other organizations and has its own individual projects. The main focus lies on helping cats and dogs but all animals in need will be helped.
Animals in need cannot ask for help. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of people that hurt, torture or kill animals for no reason. Others try to exploit animals and mistreat them right.
Some animals don’t get the attention or help that they should get. In some countries they are neglected and multiply with no control under the worst conditions.
Some companies in America still sell puppies in malls. Those dogs have to stand and sleep on metal grids and do not get the social interaction that they would need to develop properly. There are a lot of reasons to help animals!
Norman Meier has decided to help animals in need because that is where his heart belongs. Norman Meier states: “Wylie”, my late dog, was the love of my life. At only seven years of age he died of cancer. He died on my birthday, which was very sad. In his honor I have decided to create a charity to help animals.”
Making money and being successful can be a wonderful thing. However, you can only be fulfilled in your life if you do something good in the world. This world has provided me with a lot of abundance. And now it is time to give something back to the world.

Former Bodybuilding competitor, Aerobics champion and black belt

Norman Meier has two times Swiss Aerobics champion and competed in the World championships in Tokyo in 1995. He competed in the category “pairs” with Arianne Niederhauser.
He has a third degree black belt in karate and won many tournaments from 1990 to 1999.
He also competed in two bodybuilding competitions in 2005 and 2006 in Europe. He was also first runner up in the Mr. Switzerland competition 1994.
On his website www.normanmeier.com he reveals lots of his secrets in the blog section and wants to encourage people to get into shape.

In the financial world only money or things that can be turned into money are viewed as assets. Assets are a lot more, however. Assets are all the things that you can bring to the table. If you don’t have money it is not the end of the world. You have other things: creativity, willingness to work and time! Those things are also assets.

Your attitude and power to make things happen are the biggest assets that you have – not money!

You will create wealth out of your creativity and your thoughts. You need the willingness to do whatever is necessary and to believe in yourself. You have all you need in excess! Our biggest obstacle is not the scarcity of money. It is the scarcity of all the other factors! If your ideas are good the money will follow to where it is needed.

If we don’t believe in ourselves, we cannot expect others to believe in us.
(Ute Lauterbach – German actor)