Mark Osborne
Stephen Brown's CFO
Chief Fundraising Officer
Mark Osborne's Story
More on Mark Osborne, a public person and longtime business associate of Stephen Brown, self-described administrator and fundraiser for Stephen Brown.
Mark is not some random shareholder who got fooled once and disappeared. The record (his own literal words) places him much closer to the center of Stephen Brown's operations. The court-appointed receiver's sworn cross-complaint described Mark Osborne, Darcy Christopherson, and Ryan Cobb as shareholders and agents of Stephen Brown who acted on Brown's behalf and at his direction, including making corporate decisions.
The documents (and his own admission) since then show Mark repeatedly appearing in the same role across company after company: helping raise money, moving investor funds, hosting investor calls, circulating supposed corporate milestones, vouching for Stephen Brown, coordinating with lawyers, attacking critics, and then showing up again for the next investment.
And Mark eventually described the relationship himself. In June 2026 he told a prospective investor:
“I've been partnered with Stephen for about five years... I do a lot of administration for Stephen”
That five-year timeline takes Mark through HPIL, CRKM, Criteria Management, Everplay, Tevano, FTI and now Global Regenerative/M3GO.
At some point “I trusted Stephen too” stops explaining the pattern.
HPIL is where anyone paying attention should have learned the lesson.
The Kentucky investigative report documents roughly $3 million-plus raised around HPIL, while litigation cited in that report alleged that none of the money benefited HPIL. The report also documents approximately $1.26 million in loans from HPIL to Brown's private Crank Media, plus additional related-party transfers.
The report specifically notes that the problem was not an inability to raise money. Money was being raised. The problem documented was that money was moving into Brown-controlled private companies instead of advancing the projects investors were supposedly funding.
So after watching HPIL collapse, what did Mark do?
Help Stephen raise more money.
By March 2023, Mark was no longer merely telling people that Stephen was a good guy.
He was moving investor money. An email thread documents Mark sending wiring instructions to investor with the funds directed into a Criteria Management account. The email has Mark backing the investment, guaranteeing it. Stephen needed money for lawyers and auditors, meanwhile Stevie was moving over $10M through his personal accounts Stephen denied. having. Mark has seen the court records on this, how can anyone still be this stupid?
That is not passive investing. That is Mark Osborne acting as a money conduit between an investor and a Brown-controlled private company. And the investor lost everything... Criteria was dissolved.
One would think that might trigger some reflection... Apparently not.
CRME and the supposed Nasdaq Nordic launch.
Mark then personally hosted April 2023 CRME and CRKM investor Zoom calls centered around what was represented as a:
“firm trade date for CRME on 4/10 on NASDAQ Nordic.”
Mark's instruction was:
“SB and Andy, please forward to any others who you wish to attend the call.”
He was also on the distribution for Brown's FINRA name reservation and a supposed Nasdaq Nordic Criteria launch schedule.
Again, Mark wasn't reading someone else's promotional post.
He was hosting the investor call.
He was helping distribute the story.
He was helping bring people in.
The records connect the same Brown network to Tevano/Electrofi and document investor money being used in an effort to get Tevano's suspension lifted.
Timothy Kaiser made a substantial business loan connected to Brown's companies. The record states that the loan was made, in Kaiser's words, to push Tevano “over the finish line” regarding lifting its suspension. Mark later appears directly in that creditor matter as Brown's payment intermediary.
The loan did not end with Tevano magically crossing the finish line.
Kaiser later obtained judgments against Brown, Crank Media and Everplay. The Michigan judgment exceeded $222,000 against the corporate defendants and Brown jointly, with a separate judgment against Brown individually. A British Columbia judgment followed for the corresponding Canadian-dollar amounts.
And somehow Mark was still explaining Stephen Brown to prospective investors years later.
In June 2026 Mark told a prospective investor that Kaiser was a:
“Great guy... I talked to Tim... they're gonna be withdrawing that lawsuit.”
Meanwhile, the documented judgment stood.
The recurring theme seems to be that whenever a Stephen Brown situation becomes inconvenient, Mark is available to explain why the inconvenient public record shouldn't bother you. The question is, did he talk Tim into dropping it? Directly interfering with a victim's ability to recover funds? Did he use the same lies as he did with Jerry on his pitch to solicit $50k from Jerry on two scams? Probably, it was the same call...
By June 2026, after all of that, Mark was back on the phone helping pitch another Stephen Brown investment.
This time it was FTI (and M3GO)
Mark represented to a prospective investor that FTI was about to trade. According to the recorded-call summary, he said a trading date was expected the following week, identified McMillan as counsel and SRCO as auditor, discussed an expense supposedly removed to satisfy the exchange, and said the company was about to begin trading.
Stephen Brown was simultaneously telling the investor that FTI could:
“literally be trading by Friday”
“literally days”
“expecting by Monday.”
The problem?
Henry Weingarten privately admitted they had already been telling people essentially the same thing for months:
“four months ago … I said it's trading next week … it's four months later.”
FTI still did not have TSX-V approval to resume trading at the point documented in the report. Yet Mark was still there reassuring people. This time was different... Presumably.
But it gets worse. Audited yearly filings were due end of June, guess what... no filings and was slapped with a Cease Trading Order by the BCSC. Same ending as AMEEF, HPIL, CRKM, TEVO... who could have saw this coming...
Had the investor, Jerry, not found this site... he could have given Stephen Brown $50k based on Mark Osborne's fraudulent representations and lost it all. $25k into FTI and $25k into a BIGGER scam... M3GO.
Global Regenerative and M3GO
While Mark was vouching for FTI, the same group was simultaneously working another investment involving Global Regenerative Group and the supposed M3GO transaction.
The documents show a $50,000 solicitation structured as two $25,000 convertible loans: one into FTI and one into Global Regenerative, supposedly convertible into M3GO. Both agreements carried a 75% discount to the opening trading price. Mark was part of the coordinated solicitation.
Brown directed the investor toward Mark for reassurance. Mark called specifically to vouch for Stephen and said:
“I've been partnered with Stephen for about five years.”
Multiple associated people called the same prospective investor, reinforcing one another's story. Then comes the part that should concern anyone thinking about sending money.
The companies supposedly giving substance to the M3GO story denied the relationships.
St3mR3gen said there was no agreement.
P3tR3G3N said the claim was not true.
Tru3 Diagnostics said it was false.
M3GO's principal also denied the arrangement.
Yet an investor was being asked to send money under a convertible agreement tied to M3GO.
Stephen Brown appears to have invented a new category of transaction: a deal real enough to accept your money but apparently not real enough for the supposed counterparty to know it exists.
And Mark was helping sell it.
Mark wasn't just promoting. He was part of the machinery. The documents identify Mark across multiple roles:
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conduit for investor funds into Crank Media, Criteria Management, Tevano, FTI, ???;
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host of investor calls;
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circulator of corporate and regulatory materials;
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liaison between Brown's group and lawyers;
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developer of investor materials;
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payment intermediary;
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participant in cease-and-desist efforts against critics;
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and so much more...
... and by 2026, a Mark openly saying he had been partnered with Brown for about five years and did “a lot of administration for Stephen.” There is even a January 2023 email from Darcy Christopherson telling him:
“Mark, you are out of control. Stephen Brown is the CEO and runs this show, not you. You really need to take it back about ten notches.”
When another Stephen Brown insider is telling you that you're too involved in Stephen Brown's operation, perhaps that should cause a moment of introspection. Apparently it did not.
And Mark went after the people warning investors. Instead of distancing himself from Brown, Mark and Andrew Badger retained counsel and sent cease-and-desist letters to critics. Those letters demanded removal of the critical website and demanded that the recipients stop interfering with the trading of companies affiliated with Brown. Mark later emailed securities regulators, Vancouver police, the City of Vancouver and OTC Markets, copied Stephen Brown, called a critic a:
“lying menace and a cyber terrorist criminal”
... and went on to describe some conspiracy nut job claim of naked shorting and toxic noteholders, later repeated on the call with Jerry, whom he tried to help solicit $50k out of.
Meanwhile Mark continued helping Stephen solicit investments.
By June 2026, when a prospective investor raised Brown's history, Mark and Brown were still describing critics as “paid bashers” and a “hired cyber-terrorist,” while Mark described litigation to take down the website and efforts to identify the operator through a private investigator. Mark even said he had built:
“386 slides on this guy.”
Apparently there was enough time to build 386 slides about the person documenting the problems, but not enough time to figure out why every new Stephen Brown company seemed to require an explanation for what happened to the previous Stephen Brown company.
The pattern is the story
HPIL.
CRKM.
Criteria Management.
Everplay.
Tevano.
FTI.
Global Regenerative.
M3GO.
Different names.
There are more not listed.
Same Stephen Brown.
Same small circle.
And Mark Osborne keeps appearing near the money. That is the real issue. Companies fail all the time. Investments go bad. Deals collapse.This isn't about ordinary business failure.
It is about repeatedly helping raise money around Stephen Brown after prior investors lost money, after supposed counterparties denied represented deals, after money moved through Brown-controlled private entities, after creditors went unpaid, after promised trading dates failed to materialize, and after Mark himself had become deeply involved in the administration, fundraising and investor-relations side of Brown's operation.
By Mark's own account, this relationship lasted about five years.
He moved investor money.
He hosted investor calls.
He vouched for Stephen.
He helped prepare investment materials.
He acted as an intermediary with creditors.
He defended Stephen to prospective investors.
And after everything that had already happened, he was still helping work a $50,000 FTI/Global Regenerative/M3GO solicitation in June 2026 right before FTI was slapped with a CTO.
At some point, “Stephen fooled me too” becomes a very difficult story to sell.
Particularly when you keep helping Stephen sell the next one.
In summary, you are likely here because Mark Osborne solicited you for investment into a Stephen Brown scam... or he is currently soliciting you.
DON'T BE AS F'ING RETARDED AS HIM! DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY!! IF YOU DID, SUE TF OUT OF HIM!!!
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