Doha, Qatar
Data and people-driven global commodities trading strategy leader with 15+ years experience, focused on LNG, gas, and oil trading since 2011. Embedded in short and mid-term trading teams in Europe & the Middle East I have worked for some of the world's leading trading businesses, including integral involvement in the greenfield set-up of world-leading LNG producer QatarEnergy's in-house commodity trading function since 2020. Significant experience deriving monetizable trading and origination strategies for front office commercial; designing, recruiting, and managing analytics & data teams, building corporate strategy, and communicating market insights to a variety of stakeholders, from traders and middle office to C-suite executive level.
Trading European & North American natural gas, crude oil, emissions products, and LNG derivatives.
Lead LNG Analyst working across European Gas, LNG & Cross Commodity Power trading desks.
Front office market analytics, leading the development of trade & origination strategies to monetize positions in the LNG, European & North American gas, oil, and LNG freight markets. ● Built QET's analytics capability from scratch, including development of Global Gas & European Gas Balances; building pricing and curve building tools; identifying and procuring required external data and reporting sources, etc. ● Currently leading a team of four market strategists/data scientists, building the team from the design & recruitment stage to day-to-day management. ● Designed QET's IT & data engineering organisation and recruited key staff. ● Key participant in the development of a globally significant gas & LNG portfolio, from greenfield beginnings to a sophisticated modern trading organisation. ● Executed QET's first physical trades, a key milestone in the business' development. ● Manage & lead development of QET's data & analytics platform, including overseeing database design and implementation, dashboards, and advanced modelling and forecasting tools. ● Manage a multi-million dollar data/subscriptions/analytics budget.
[Shell Trading & Shipping International] Business interface for technology and process improvement projects within Shell’s Gas & Power trading organisation.
[Shell Liquefied Natural Gas Marketing & Trading | SLMT/LNG Trading] LNG fundamentals focal point for the global Short Term Trading team within a world-class LNG marketing organisation.
Variety of consulting projects in the E&P space across Europe and Central Asia, helping build capability and maximise value for BP (UK & Azerbaijan), Shell (Netherlands), BG Group (UK).
[Shell Exploration & Production - Europe | EPE] PM in the small project space (<500k USD) leading teams of ~5-6 staff & contractors. Key projects included delivery of EP Europe’s first modularised CWE (Collaborative Work Environment), comprising onshore and offshore technologies and process change