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the TRADEway story
1st Gen Entrepreneur
C. L. Brown
It all started, a long time ago, when a young man set out to find his fortune. Captain C.L. Brown was 19 years old with a sixth-grade education, and his family were junk dealers in Baltimore, Maryland. He heard about an oil boom in Mexia, Texas; so he went there, and spent his lifetime in the oil field learning skillsets and working hard. One skill he learned was to lower nitroglycerine into the well-bore and blow it up, causing the wells to come in better and be more productive. Because of this skillset, he gained the nickname “Torpedo Brown.” Naturally, he had no competition because of the risk involved. When he was in his 60s, the Pure Oil Company asked him if he would like to buy the Mexia field.
He had saved money his whole life. So, with a handshake and a loan, Captain Brown purchased the field. He fracked all the wells (an improving technology back then) and they came in like new. He paid the bank off in a little over a year, and bought oil fields in West Texas (The Permian Basin) as well. He took his family from poverty to riches, but it took a whole life-time of hard work and risk. TRADEway teaches people all across America to become the “Captain Brown” of their family, through stock trading! Hard work, yes, and some risk, but at least you don’t have to deal with torpedos!
2nd Gen Investor
E.G. Hall
Many years later E.G. Hall married Captain Brown’s daughter, Virginia – his favorite child. Elvis and Virginia were the first in the family to have business degrees!
He was hired by Humble Oil (now Exxon) to maintain oil leases. It is now the largest producing field in the U.S. stock and bond markets. The family drilled the second oil well in that field, and he passed all these skillsets down to their daughter Joye.
3rd Gen Diversifier
Fred & Joye Mitchell
Elvis and Virginia’s daughter, Joye, married Paul Parker, a WWII veteran who had flown more than twenty bombing raids over Germany. He had become a geologist after the war, and his team discovered the Permian Basin oil field in West Texas. It is now the largest producing field in the world. Because of Paul, our family purchased leases in West Texas, and Paul drilled the second oil well in the Permian Basin. Unfortunately, Paul passed away in his 30s.
Some time later, Joye married a Special Agent in the F.B.I. named Fred Mitchell (pictured here with young David). Fred was a remarkable man of many talents. He quickly learned the family skillsets passed down to him and Joye, from Elvis and Virginia. He used oil funds to start the Van Zoren Pipe Organ Company in Portland, Oregon with his son, David. They later sold the pipe organ company to the CBS Television Network. Fred and Joye taught all the skills they had learned from Captain Brown, and Elvis and Virginia Hall, to David and his wife, Charlotte.
4th Gen Multiplier
David With Family, 2001
Fred and Joye’s son, David, went to Baylor University and studied pre-med for two years before being asked by Fred to change his major to business. David had been managing the oil company office since High School, and knew more about stock trading than his professors when he entered Baylor Business school. David married the love of his life, his child-hood sweetheart, Charlotte Black, and then graduated in 1978 with two business degrees–a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, and an MBA.
Two weeks before his Master’s comps, while driving 40 miles East from Baylor to work in the oil office in Mexia, David’s life suddenly took a vastly new direction. He asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into his life and, in his words, “be my boss rather than me being my boss.” He was an entrepreneur at heart and he believed strongly in the idea of the family business, and now he saw this as an avenue to serve the Lord.
David Teaching
David felt called into the ministry about five years later and studied theology under his beloved mentor, Dr. Irwin “Rocky” Freeman. David continued running the oil company, but also served as Associate Pastor under the founder of a new church (Park Meadows Church in Corsicana, Texas), and then under the next two Pastors as well. Later, he became the Senior Pastor of the church, and is still serves and leads in this position today, some forty years later. David never took a salary from the church because God blessed his business skills; in fact, he was able to give to the Lord’s work through the years because of his background in business.
When David and Charlotte’s five children were grown, they all realized the power of the skillsets passed down from Captain Brown, to Elvis and Virginia, to Fred and Joye, then to David, and now his children and grandchildren. They thought it would be great share the idea of the power of the family business and Stock Trading skill sets with brothers and sisters in Christ around the country. So, David and his five children, and their spouses (all ten together), developed the TRADEway system and began to teach it in every major market in the country.
David’s daily radio show, The Word on Investing (now a popular Podcast) reached hundreds of thousands of people, teaching business principles from the Bible. TRADEway grew into a mid-sized Registered Investment Advisory Firm along the way. By sharing how his family went from poverty to wealth through passing down skillsets and working together, David has helped thousands of families across America learn how to take control of their finances, inspiring them to pursue their own American Dream, chasing their biggest goals, by taking small steps.
5th Gen Expander
Katie Huber
Before taking the reigns of the family business as CEO, Katie served as COO for 18 years helping build TRADEway with her Dad, David Mitchell, and her husband, Dave Huber. Starting from Katie and Dave’s garage (yes, a literal garage based business), with only a handful of students, to now serving more than 100,000 students across the United States, and building a team of 40+ Christian families to serve in every capacity, Katie has truly had the grit and “roll up her sleeves” attitude it took to reach this level of expansion. The future for TRADEway, now entering it’s 6th generation with Katie’s own children, is brighter than ever! Katie and her team look forward to helping each and every student pursue their biggest goals as we expand our mission of reaching Christian families with the message of hope and impact.
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Meet the TRADEway Team
Our Team
Having a professional, knowledgeable, Christ-centered team to support you in your trading journey is what you’ll experience at TRADEway! These folks will do everything they can to help you reach your biggest goals.
David Mitchell
Founder, President,
Chairman of the Board
Katie Huber
Chief Executive Officer
Colin Calvert
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technical Officer
Ben Mitchell
Chief Compliance Officer
Team Manager & Precious Metals Operations Manager
Ross Querry
Lead Investment Adviser Representative
Geoffrey Nance
Executive Director of AMPT & Investment Adviser Representative Director
Dave Huber II
Chief Sales Officer
Investment Adviser Rep
Blair Nightingale
Investment Adviser Rep
Jared Russell
Investment Advisor Rep
Casin South
Investment Advisor Rep
Caleb Pritchett
Investment Advisor Rep
Jenny Taylor
Investment Adviser Rep
Event Director
Dave Huber Sr.
Investment Adviser Rep
David Verbruggen
Investment Advisor Rep
Pete Breidt
Investment Adviser Rep
Denny Foster
Investment Adviser Rep
Matt Mitchell
Director of Sales
Personal Strategist
Paul Mitchell
Sales Analyst
Personal Strategist
Pamm Romines
Assistant Team Manager & Payment Account Advocate
Misty Feller
Assistant Team Manager
Marketing & Event Coordinator
Shawn Glenn
Personal Strategist
Tiffany Wilburn
Support Specialist
Trading Accountability Partner
Andrew Wilburn
AMPT Client Engagement Manager
Support Specialist
Rachel McCants
Lead Engagement Manager
Trading Accountability Partner
Debbie Calvert
Executive Administrative Assistant
Maria Collins
Support Specialist & Special Projects Manager
Noah Hernandez
Lead Engagement ReP
Trading Accountability Partner
Brandy Nance
Marketing Strategist
Nathan Russell
Personal Strategist
Julia Mitchell
Marketing Strategy Specialist
Glenda Davis
Assistant to CCO
Tyler Swartzentruber
Video & Production Specialist
Matt Shaw
Personal Strategist
Diana Blood
Trading Accountability Partner
Ben Butler
Trading Accountability Partner
Caitlin Nightingale
Personal Strategist
Kyle Ballard
Contractor for Accounting
Yannick Rice
Personal Strategist
Jamey Foster
Marketing Consultant
Family Based Leadership
TRADEway is truly a family based business — strong values, solid leadership, and a heart for making sure you have everything you need to reach your biggest goals.
David Mitchell
Founder, President, & Chairman of the Board
Charlotte Mitchell
Vice President
Katie Huber
Chief Executive Officer
Dave Huber II
Chief Sales Officer
Colin Calvert
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Financial Officer
Ben Mitchell
Chief Compliance Officer, Team Manager & Precious Metals Operations Manager
Paul Mitchell
Sales Analyst
Personal Strategist
Matt Mitchell
Director of Sales
Personal Strategist
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