Alistair Naiken

Group Chairman & CEO at Auremin

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

As Group Chairman and CEO of Auremin, I lead the strategic direction of our commodities and infrastructure platform - building the kind of physical, asset-backed business that frontier markets actually need. My focus at Auremin is on originating and structuring large-scale projects across energy, mining inputs, and industrial materials, with a particular emphasis on regions where traditional supply chains are fragmented or underdeveloped. We've built an integrated model that combines commodity trading with logistics, storage, and infrastructure, allowing us to deliver reliably on the ground where others can't. I bring over 15 years of experience in global energy and commodity markets to this work, including earlier roles in trading at Centrica and Vitol before I shifted into building businesses across emerging markets. At Auremin, that background shapes how we approach growth: scalable infrastructure, disciplined capital deployment, and long-term partnerships over short-term plays.

Experience

  • Group Chairman & CEO at Auremin
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • Natural Gas Trader & Originator at Vitol Group
    Jan 2013 - Apr 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos

  • Centrica (Windsor, England, United Kingdom)
    • Portfolio Shift Trader/ Natural Gas Operations
      Sep 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Analyst Graduate Programme
      Sep 2009 - Aug 2011 · 2 yrs