Ron Hera

Ron Hera is a private investor and financial writer focusing on hard assets, natural resources, commodities and precious metals. Hera, who currently lives in Olympia, Washington, is an outspoken proponent of the free market and of the Austrian School of economics. His articles on economics and on companies that produce natural resources appear regularly in print publications and on hundreds of thousands of websites globally, including translations into languages such as German and Vietnamese. Hera is also known for candid interviews with investors in commodities and precious metals, such as Jim Rogers, Eric Sprott, Hugo Salinas Price, Jim Sinclair and Dr. Marc Faber.

Hera is a regular guest on financial programs and a frequent speaker at investment conferences specializing in hard assets, natural resources, commodities and precious metals.

A native Californian, Hera earned a B.S. from Santa Clara University, followed by a master's degree from Stanford University. While at university, Hera received an invitation to join Mensa International and remains a current member.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Hera worked for a number of software companies in Silicon Valley, including Netscape. Hera became a serial entrepreneur and investor in communications software and successfully sold a privately held high tech software startup.

After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Hera became an investor in hard assets, natural resources, commodities and precious metals. Leading up to the financial crisis beginning in 2008, Hera's associates encouraged him to make public his privately circulated analyses of economics and financial market issues.

In 2009, Hera established Hera Research, LLC to publish analyses of companies that discover, develop and produce natural resources, including precious metals (gold, silver and platinum group metals), rare earth elements and minerals, such as copper, lithium and graphite, along with rare earth elements and uranium, as well as petroleum (crude oil, natural gas and coal), sustainable energy "green" energy and agriculture.