Petrochemical & Feedstocks industry executive with known commercial negotiation skills along with a comprehensive understanding of Aromatics and Olefins. Product knowledge in Benzene, Ethylene, Styrene, Cumene, Refinery grade Propylene, Butadiene, Styrenic block copolymers, Polystyrene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Diethylbenzene. I have proven expertise and knowledge in US Gulf Coast petrochemical operations that spans both commodity and specialty chemicals manufacturing, distribution, terminals and operations. I have extensive profit and loss experience along with asset management, strategic planning, forecasting and implementation. I am known for excellent leadership, contract discipline and negotiation, teamwork and communication skills including logistics knowledge of vessels, barges, rail, truck, pipelines, tank, cavern storage, natural gas transmission and pipelines. Deep commercial experience in buy-sells, commodity hydrocarbon geographical arbitrage movements, unlike and like product exchanges, and tolls.

Negotiate, execute and manage business critical feedstock supply agreements for Benzene, Ethylene, Natural Gas and Electricity with physical Producers and petrochemical trading partners. Logistical responsibility for marine and pipeline moves of these monomers. Responsible for working capital metrics associated with inventory levels. Commercial business responsibility for Ethylene pipeline and deliveries, Benzene and EB storage tanks. Responsible for the profit and loss of petrochemical trading buy-sells of Benzene, Styrene, EB, DiEB, and Toluene. Negotiate exchanges, swaps and tolls for Styrene, Benzene and Ethylbenzene. Along with a talented team of dedicated professionals, responsible for marketing, sales, profit and loss performance of AmSty's Feedstock and Styrene business in the Americas region including export arbitrage sales.

Responsible business development, procurement strategy, contract negotiation, implementation and execution to deliver cost advantaged Feedstock supply to Styrene Monomer and Polystyrene plants in the Americas. Commercially manage buy-sells of Benzene, Ethylene, Toluene, Natural Gas, Fuel Oil and Utilities. Manage overall system balance with sales and or purchases of Spot Styrene, Benzene and Ethylbenzene to acheive inventory balance targets and working capital expectations. Initiate opportunistic buy-sells of Benzene, Styrene and Ethylbenzene.

Global Commercial Business Manager for Cumene and Americas Sr. Commercial Manager for Styrene, Ethylbenzene, DiEB and PEB. Responsible for Marketing and Sales of Cumene from Terneuzen, The Netherlands. Purchased Cumene in the United States as feedstock for Dow Chemical's Phenol Acetone plant in Freeport, Texas. Managed system balances either by sale, exchange or purchase of Styrene Monomer for supply to Polystyrene plants in the Americas. Commercially managed product volume of two Styrene Monomer plants in Freeport Texas and one in Camacari Brazil.

Global Commercial Manager, by secondment from The Dow Chemical Company to Dexco Polymers a joint venture with ExxonMobil Chemical responsible for Marketing, Sales and New Product Development for Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene Block Copolymers (SBS) for use in the Polymer and Asphalt Modification business. Also responsible for Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene Block Copolymers (SIS) for use in Elastomeric films, flexible netting and Photopolymer printing plates.

Various positions, including Technical Service & Development in Urethanes, Sales, Distribution Management, Product Management, and Marketing Management in Specialty Chemicals.