Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Charlie is an energy trader and shipping-focused operator with deep experience in physical markets and fintech-enabled trading infrastructure. With a proven ability to scale complex energy order books, he has grown crude, fuel oil, and gasoil flows within West and East Africa from $0 to $100 per month, while managing key physical and contractual flows with tier-one refiners across the AMEA region. Charlie’s strengths lie in structuring offtake and freight, optimising pool exposure, navigating compliance and blending dynamics, and aligning commercial strategy with balance-sheet discipline. His experience spans physical execution, logistics planning, and the strategic integration of digital tools to improve trade transparency and execution quality. His strength lies within personal relationships and his extensive network he has built from building out the African book whilst being based out of Dubai and Switzerland over the last 5 years. His background in fintech complements his trading expertise by enhancing how capital, risk, and execution are coordinated in volatile markets ,bridging technology, liquidity, and real-world asset delivery. This combination enables smarter pricing, tighter risk management, and more efficient logistics across the energy value chain.
Swiss based commodity trading company Synsol AG has been operating since 1999 and has extensive experience in delivering cargoes in and around WAF, East Africa, Malaysia and the Med. Charlie heads up all of the trade operations where he: - Built and managed a physical gasoil and fuel oil trading book across West & East Africa, scaling monthly turnover from $0 to $100m+ - Structured CIF and FOB supply chains with tier-one refiners and trade houses - Owned commercial decisions including pricing, counterparty selection, and netback optimisation - Managed freight, storage, insurance, credit, and hedging to protect margins - Executed trades under defined risk parameters, balancing prompt exposure and term commitments - Traded monthly cargoes of 4–36kt, achieving $2–3/bbl margins across a core group of 4–5 active counterparties, within defined risk and credit limits.
Atlantic Ship Agencies is a well established botique ship brokerage that has a focus on dry bulk and wet petroleum vessel chartering within Handymax to MR ship size. - Worked with a number of refineries and large scale suppliers and buyers to manage their portfolio and client fuel needs through ensuring timely delivery of cargo. - Supported physical gasoil and fuel oil trades by securing vessel availability, coordinating port execution, and mitigating operational risks impacting trade margins - Leased with appropriate port authorities, managed cargoes in association with clients portfolio managers and ensured appropriate quality controls were in place for the high-value cargo. - Managed key flows in WAF and ARA region whilst growing the order book through business development.
- Founder and project lead of two decentralised finance protocols which generated over $10M in revenue and raised $5M in VC funding. - Built and managed the development of a financial protocol that grew to have over $20M total value locked within it. Built-in Typescript and Rust - Grew and managed over 50K monthly active users on my platform through managing a team of 20 top developers and marketers.
- Generated over 100% returns per annum of trading by creating alternative trade strategies using weighted Monte Carlo simulations. - Created and developed trade tooling and predictive social sentiment scraping algorithms to automate trades in C++. python and API tech. - Daily financial reporting using three statement models and reviewing pitch decks, market data, whitepapers and meeting with early-late stage ventures. - Effectively communicating with stakeholders to generate further investment into the fund.
- Led the SQL team to improve API response time by 21% by working collaboratively with senior management and data scientists on data structure management. - Utilized emotional intelligence and AGILE frameworks to lead a high-performance team, successfully achieving operational and personnel objectives. - Worked as part of the data visualisation team using Tableau and Matplot to visually explore a node network graphically.