Rana is an experienced commodities trading risk and systems professional and Blockchain evangelist for the oil trading and logistics space with exposure to American, European, Asian and Middle Eastern trading contexts and business cultures. A diverse background in trading and risk management, sales, engineering, accounting and IT provides unique insights on business imperatives in commodities trading, regulatory issues, and the overlap between trading commercials, operations and corporate systems. In the last 15 years, he has been responsible for the controls, processes and systems providing risk management capabilities for various market participants from oil majors, trading companies, refiners, banks and hedge funds in the liquid hydrocarbons space. As Director Risk and Systems at Astra Oil Company, he has delivered controls, efficiencies and effectiveness on front, middle and back office functions. For 11 years, he was part of the delivery and services organization at Amphora Inc. and founded the Center of Expertise within Amphora – a shared business analysis resource pool supporting risk management initiatives internally and with clients and business partners. Companies served or partnered with include Chevron, Koch Supply and Trading, Sinclair, Petroplus, Marathon, Mercuria, PetroChina, Centaurus, ENI, ENEL, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Noble, Caltex, Transcor Astra, RBS Sempra, UBS, Platts, CME (Nymex), MRE, Accenture, PWC, Deloitte, Sapient among others. Rana has a BE in Power Plant engineering from Jadavpur University (India) and a MLHR from the Fisher college of Business at the Ohio State University.