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New York, New York, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Urbandale, Ia, Us

Worked with the Founder to tell the company's story and ultimately raise capital.

Oversee the profit and loss management of the entire company. Responsible for strategy development and implementation, corporate governance, financial performance, operational efficiency, and relationship management. Other responsibilities and duties include:• Reviewing business processes and developing business plans to enhance cost efficiency in fuel management. • Liaising with the company board to guide decision-making.• Communicating the company’s policies and legal position. • Forging partnerships with stakeholders to execute the business agenda.

Developed tactical marketing plans that fulfilled the company’s commercial objectives. Oversaw project managers developing growth strategies, analyzed supply chains, and implemented process improvements to boost operations. Other responsibilities and duties included:• Nurturing relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders to increase productivity and ease negotiations.• Developing and presenting strategic plans for decision-making and exploring marketing opportunities to company leaders.• Collaborating with multi-level stakeholders (internal and external) to optimize asset use. Key Achievement:• Through continuous process improvement, enhanced the asset efficiency ratio by optimizing under-utilized assets, such as storage tanks, rail cars, and truck-to-pipeline discharge stations (LACTs).

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Led the International Trading Unit that controlled diesel disposal, distillate blendstocks, feedstock purchases, and light cycle oil operations and stimulated the trading desk’s efficiency. Supervised the growth expansion strategies, ensured regulatory compliance by implementing company protocols and controls, and maintained a spotless standing with external regulators.Key Achievements:• Challenged the status quo and identified and pursued business growth opportunities resulting in the company’s participation in large-scale tenders and delivering cargoes to Europe, Central America, and Brazil.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Guided business expansion and managed day-to-day operations. Established the Oklahoma regional marketing office, managed strategic planning and development, and collaborated with the Calgary office, responsible for Canadian crude transactions. Key Achievements:• Managed 1,000 rail cars and delivered up to 100,000 crude barrels to refineries daily.• Analyzed costs per trade, evaluated critical industry conditions, and lowered the costs for crude and Brent WTI crude arbitrage lock-in.

Founder and Managing Director.Grew market share and provide strategic leadership across different business functions to align unit objectives with the company mission and streamline corporate growth. Other responsibilities and duties included:• Analysing the client and competitor network to gather latest industry trends and set accurate benchmarks.• Aligning departmental objectives to reflect the company’s mission.• Championing continuous productivity across the organisation.• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to inspire innovation and capture expansion opportunities.• Maximising expansion initiatives, reducing operational threats/inefficiencies, mitigating business risks, and leveraging on the company’s core strengths to propel growth.• Developing and enforcing policies that led to continual improvements in business operations and human resource management.• Conducting market research and analysis to guide management in making strategic decisions

Houston, Texas, Us

Provided leadership to the company in strategic positioning, financial performance, and risk management and drove operational efficiency. Supervised the maintenance and functionality of a 120,000-barrel time-chartered ocean-going barge and supplied the Canadian Arctic Circle with ultra-low sulphur kerosene via rail. Key Achievements:• Increased profitability and reach by securing a short-term joint venture with a chemical trading company for gasoline blendstock importation. • By participating in global trading management, championed the penetration of traded distillates, blendstocks, and gasoline to new markets in the Gulf Coast, Mid-West, Southeast, New York Harbour, and Canadian markets.• Boosted company revenue and growth and structured product pricing and logistics strategies for Love’s Travel Store’s truck stop network to aid the parent company’s strategic growth. • Hammered out

Us

Hired to trade clean products (gasoline and distillates) ex-Delaware City, Delaware refinery.Transferred to the Feedstocks desk, trading naphtha, LCO, slurry and VGO for the Premcor system of refineries.

Houston, Texas, Us

Hired to establish the Oil Trading desk. After 13 months, promoted to head up all Fuels trading (oil, natural gas, coal and emissions). Managed a team of 25 persons.

Wichita, Kansas, Us

Naphtha petrochemical feedstock analyst in the Singapore office.

Salzburg, Salzburg, At

London, England, Gb

My first job out of university was as an Internal Auditor for Shell Singapore.I later transferred to SIETCO (Shell International Eastern Trading Co.) heading up Middle Distillates operations/scheduling team.

Singapore, Sg

After 3 months Army basic infantry training I was selected to join the first batch of National Service combat divers, graduating as an NCO of the Navy's elite Underwater Demolition Team (UDT).Additional platoon training included courses at the Commando Battalion and Signals School and a course in heavy infantry weapons. My secondary UDT role was the platoon medic. I was enrolled in a 3-month Army course followed by a 3-week Navy underwater medicine course.

Ba (Hons.), Economics & Agricultural Economics

International Baccalaureate