David Keller Email & Phone Number

Baar, ZG, CH

• Principal Glencore Americas Region cargo trader for 10+ years (Exports and Imports). Entailed managing the relationships of a diverse set of producers and end-users for global physical arbitrage business.
• Traded cargoes from the entire quality spectrum and geographical origin while transporting them on tankers across the world.
• Consistently generated yearly positive P&L from physical business supplemented by execution of speculative paper strategies such as time spreads, relative value, flat price, basis swaps, freight paper, and physical.
• Indirect P&L generated by marketing cargoes for the global team and sharing market intel.
• Managed the physical platform of base WTI Midland export volumes for the company.
• Marketed Bakken/Canadian Heavy export volume for a global private equity sponsor partnered with a Canadian fund.

Baar, ZG, CH

• Reestablished key commercial relationships with Latin American producers and end-users after sudden exit of Senior trader post Glencore IPO.
• Built Glencore’s first unit trains of Bakken crude oil from North Dakota. Negotiated terms for well-head supply, trucking, rail cars, load terminal throughput, and sales to customers in the US Gulf Coast.
• Wound down Colombian inland-to-coast truck gathering business after prior trader departed.

Baar, ZG, CH

• Reconciled daily P&L for the US crude desk including paper, domestic, Canadian, and foreign cargo books.
• Reported net positions to four traders and executed daily hedge orders to manage daily physical pricing.

Wuhan, HUB, CN

• Summer Internship
• Researched and proposed tax and cash management strategies to the Group Treasurer.
• Investigated and estimated the size and potential of the Libyan aggregate materials market.
• Calculated pro-forma financials and employed different valuation techniques to calculate a range of NPVs for a proposed USD 5 Mln aggregate production facility.

Amsterdam, NL

• Managed 60 global relationships and employed 20+ global products to generate gross profit of EUR 1.5 Mln/yr.
• Coached CFOs and Treasurers on the fiscal implications, accounting treatment, and currency risk of different financing strategies leading to recognition by the Bank’s executive director in Mexico.
• Directed the implementation of the first commercial credit facility with cross-border guarantees between ABN AMRO Mexico and ABN AMRO USA.
• Established the largest Mexican Peso term loan (MXN 220 Mln) in ABN AMRO Bank Mexico’s history while providing the same client a USD 8 Mln cross-currency swap to not surpass local legal lending limits.
• Evaluated non-economic risks of potential clients to mitigate the reputational risk of establishing relationships with companies involved in illicit or unethical activities.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Conducted entrepreneurship, business management, and personal finance courses for more than 400 adolescents which resulted in the development of 36 temporary small businesses.
• Led a team of five volunteers which advised the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education on the revision of the business curriculum used in the entrepreneurial education courses offered in the nation’s public schools.
• Established and advised three community banks which provide micro-loans to the banks’ 70+ members.

• Advised 15 high school professors on how to integrate technology into their respective courses.
• Instructed 125 underprivileged adolescents in the use of computers and different software applications.

Mba, Finance And Decision Sciences

Bachelors Of Science, Business Administration & Accounting