Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Royal Gold is engaged in the acquisition and management of precious-metal streams and royalties. Responsibilities include buying and selling all gold, silver and copper from streaming contracts, as well as sales forecasting, accounting and all duties related to managing Royal Gold's Swiss subsidiary, RGLD Gold AG.
Established the commodity risk management programme for the global procurement arm of SABMiller, a global beer producer with sales in over 80 countries. Financially traded commodities included aluminium and gasoil.
Marketed high-silver zinc and lead concentrates from the San Cristobal mine to global smelters. Managed hedge positions for Apex Silver Mines, whose assets were purchased by Sumitomo in March 2009.
Bought and hedged scrap and refined copper, brass, zinc and lead for large US brass mill. Managed metal raw materials inventory in close cooperation with production staff. Traded furnace byproducts, including slag and zinc oxide.
Copper market reporter and analyst for the highly ranked metals industry news service, Platts Metals (now part of S&P Global). Set industry-standard Metals Week molybdenum price and assisted with MW Aluminum Transaction Price, as well as precious metals reporting.