➢ Senior commodity arbitrator & mediator – Nigel frequently acts as arbitrator, or chairman of both Arbitration and Technical Appeal tribunals and Mediations➢ Member of Pool of Chairman, Arbitration Strategy Committee, The International Cotton Association from 2002-2017➢ Expert Witness for US, Asian and European cases

As Managing Director and Global Head, Structured Trade & Commodity Finance, Nigel is responsible for SMBC’s Commodity (energy, metals & mining and softs) client agenda, throughout the respective commodity supply chains in the Institutional sectors across SMBC’s five regions of the globe: setting and implementing strategy for the bank and all its key clients in the space, building & managing senior client relationships at CEO & CFO level for the key global clients, ensuring consistency of approach across the global relationship team, and leveraging synergies across SMBC’s relationship and product businesses (Trade, Commodity Finance & STF, Transaction Banking Markets (Nikko), & Project Finance), while driving large deals with Risk partners.Secondly, Nigel and his teams are responsible for delivering Commodity Finance and Structured Trade Finance Products to both clients banked by the STCF team and those clients banked by the other client coverage areas in SMBC- ensuring the setting and implementing of STCF Trade product strategy for the bank and its corporate clients, building & managing product capability with appropriate governance & assurance to serve our clients, ensuring consistency of approach across the global team, and leveraging synergies across our relationship and product businesses, while driving large deals with Relationship and Risk partners.Focus in role: Delivering Client Needs Met with Governance & Assurance

As Global Head of Global Trade Finance, Nigel was responsible for CBA's Trade Finance Product agenda, from new Product creation & Product Management to Platforms, Sales and Operations (called 'Trade Solutions') for Traditional Trade through Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and Structured Trade Finance (STF). Global Trade Finance (GTF) is a product team of 130 FTE globally and is a part of Cash & Transaction Services (CTS) , which sits in the Institutional Bank & Markets (IB&M) division of CBA and serves the Institutional client segments globally, as well as the Business and Private Banking (BP&B) division domestically in Australia.As global head, role required setting and implementing Trade product strategy for the bank and its clients in B&PB and IB&M, building & managing product capability with appropriate governance & assurance to serve our client, ensuring consistency of approach across the global team, and leveraging synergies across our relationship and product businesses (Business & Corporate Finance (global loans) and Markets), while driving large deals with Relationship and Risk partners.Focus in role: Delivering Client Needs Met with Governance & Assurance

➢ Co-Founder of Eastgate Trading Limited, a company focused on offering Commodity Trading, Commodity Risk Management, Structured Finance, Trade Finance, Balance Sheet & Strategic Management Consulting Services. Also consulted for Alternative Asset Managers on Fund Structuring and Investment Strategy. ➢ Consulted for European, Middle East, African & Asian CEOs, and CFOs, as well as advising the board of a Chinese large Private Oil Refiner.➢ Consulted for a well known, expanding, Korean Asset Manager➢ Consulted for Clarmondial a Swiss-based Commodity Asset Manager, on a sub –Saharan Agribusiness Fund

As Global Head of Agribusiness, Nigel was responsible for ANZ’s Agribusiness client agenda, from “paddock to plate”, in the Institutional sectors across ANZ three regions of the globe: setting and implementing strategy for the bank and all its key clients in the space, building & managing senior client relationships at CEO & CFO level for the key global clients, ensuring consistency of approach across the global relationship team, and leveraging synergies across ANZ's relationship and product businesses (Global Loans, Trade & STF, Markets, Corporate Advisory & PCM), while driving large deals with Risk partners.Australia (Sydney) based 2010-2013, then moved to Singapore 2013-Jan 2015 in same role

Nigel was a fund manager and key business executive ('Key Man") at Climate Change Capital for CCC’s $1bn, carbon funds, being one of two fund executives on the Investment Committee investing in multiple projects accredited by the UN to reduce carbon emissions, predominantly in Asia, with a focus on mining and energy/power companies within China. Key to his success in the role was his understanding of cross-border commodity trading, risk management, his understanding of doing business in China (and Asia as a whole), and his relationships with the major power and utility companies in Europe, Asia, U.S., Australia and New Zealand.

Senior member of the global energy, metals and softs derivatives teams. As founder and head of the specialist global structured commodity finance unit, started up, set direction, recruited team, wrote and processed throughout the bank to Executive Committee the new business initiative proposals for the structured commodity finance business, covering energy, metals (precious & base) and softs. Focus was on major Oil Producers and Refineries globally. Also responsible for Islamic Finance for the Global Currency and Commodities Group (GCCG) in EMEA. First global head of Carbon for the bank, starting the new environmental unit specializing in EUAs & CERs trading, structuring & finance.

Reporting to the Global Head of Global Financial Markets: Founded and built two global commodity derivative businesses for the bank with large Agribusiness, Metals and select Energy global clients - Structured Commodity Finance and Commodity Derivatives global units - Physical & Derivative Trading, Structured Products & Sales. Delivered the two highly innovative product suites globally to CFOs, CEOs and head traders of agribusiness, select energy and metals clients of the bank. Set strategy and built consensus with the bank’s Regional Heads in Europe, Asia, Americas and Australia, on a top down basis for wallet share and product delivery, and agreed client focus with Relationship Management teams in each region on a bottom up basis. Built consensus and drafted new policy for the Heads of Corporate and Capital Markets Credit Departments on new credit policies appropriate for the two uniquely innovative product sets that the two units executed. Recruited, trained, managed and retained a world class front office commodity trading, structuring & commodity sales teams. Delivered top recorded growth (in excess of 70% compound PA for 3 years) for any unit in Global Financial Markets at the time. Reporting to Global Head of STCF: Double hatted as Regional Head of Trade Finance for Rabobank for the Americas from 2003-2005 (Trade and STF), as part of responsibilities on Global Trade Finance Leadership Team within Corporate Bank. Managed both Commodity Derivatives and Weather businesses from 2001-2002 : (Trading, Sales, Derivative Structuring).

Senior Structurer OTC Commodity Derivatives (1998 – 2000) - London, UK➢ Started 3 new groups of soft commodity swaps businesses in Cotton, Fertilizer & Cocoa. Head Cotton Trader - Central Asia, Australia & China (1996-1998) - Liverpool, UK ➢ Ran largest single growth trading book ➢ Point person with Cargill’s Trade Structured Finance unit & cotton division.Cotton Trader - Texas & Pakistan (1995) - NY & Memphis, USA➢ Traded Texas ‘MOT’ cotton. ➢ Introduced new outside growths imports (Pakistan, etc) to domestic US mills.Head Cotton Trader - East & West African (1993 - 1995) - Liverpool, UK ➢ Responsible for making Cargill the largest East African player. EU Grain Trader – Milling (1991 – 1993) - London, UK & Amsterdam, HollandCompleted 18 month Commercial Management Trainee programme, which is Cargill’s Graduate Trainee Programme. ➢ Given own merchandising book for 4 commodities within six months. ➢ Initiated a new swaps market for Corn Gluten Feed Pellets.