•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 pipeline differentials. •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.•Established new multi-year Basrah Light & Heavy spot purchase business.•Designed commercial conditions for net-back marketing contract with one of Brazil’s biggest independents. Opened new markets and optimized shipping to improve Seller’s netback vs benchmark.•Liaised with Structured Finance group to identify and pitch finance deals to producers.

•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.

•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.

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.

•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.

•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.