Addison Wiggin is an American writer, publisher, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Agora Financial and publisher for 18 years. An acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, his books include: Financial Reckoning Day, Empire of Debt, The Demise of the Dollar, and The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar. Addison is also the writer and executive producer of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., an exposé on the national debt, shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2008. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family. Addison started his latest project, The Wiggin Sessions, powered by The Essential Investor, in March 2020. He films from a homegrown studio in his basement.

Mark Rossano is the founder and CEO of C6 Capital Holdings. Carbon is the chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6, hence C6. His company deals in energy and supply chain analysis. Rossano has spent his career studying energy (wind, geothermal, solar) in the Middle East, as well as working at Morgan Stanley in investment and asset management.