Brian Kaiser Email & Phone Number

Wichita, KS, US

Trading leader for all bulk finished products, gasoline blendstocks, feedstocks and heavy oils.

Wichita, KS, US

Managed Flint Hills Resources Aromatics, Intermediates and Base Oil businesses

Managed Koch Industries’ short-term fixed income activity for borrowing and investment.- Issued commercial paper to fund Koch Industries’ cash needs, averaging $2.4 billion outstanding.- Managed a $3.0 billion portfolio of investments including municipal bonds, commercial paper, loan participations, corporate bonds, repo agreements and money market funds.

Led execution to build a $500 million portfolio of investments in 1 ½ years.- Designed and implemented a portfolio management system to manage Koch Industries’ exposure to a high yield bond and bank loan portfolio.- Executed all trades, and associated interest rate derivative instruments when desired.

Led an international team of traders and salespeople to leverage Koch’s 1.2 million ton/yr ammonia production facility.- Managed Koch’s trading team and held ownership of total P&L responsibility.- Negotiated a 20 year, 830 million tons/year off-take agreement for the new FertiNitro joint venture in Venezuela.

Coordinated set up and implementation of an international trading group with new offices in London, Singapore and Argentina.- Opened Koch’s London office and established relationships with European, African and Middle East trading counterparts.- Owned P&L responsibility for all international trading.

- Responsible for European intermediate feedstocks trading.- Bought feeds for the Corpus refinery and managed price exposure associated with carrying a long or short position.- Developed naphtha trading book intra-Europe.- Sourced African crude oil for refinery needs and trading.

- Bought and sold intermediate feedstocks for Koch’s Corpus refinery.- Coordinated international purchases with international offices.- Managed inventory risk for feedstocks, residual fuel and blend stocks at the refinery.

- Scheduled product movement throughout the U.S. Gulf region in pipelines, ships, barges, rail cars and trucks.- Handled gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel and gasoline blend stocks.