Sharmilpal Kaur Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

• Focused solely on energy clients such as Mitsubishi Power, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shell, SABIC, COP28 host; helping them to elucidate and communicate their message as they journey towards using more renewables and cleaner fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia.• Write and edit whitepapers, factsheets and PowerPoint decks for energy clients speaking at public conferences, with topics anchored on the energy transition towards Net Zero.• Provide market overviews and analysis as required by energy clients, including crisis market impact analysis e.g. when the Russo-Ukraine crisis began.

Singapore

• Edit and proofread all articles in the monthly magazine• Write original articles based on C-level interviews• Assign writing articles, manage team project deadlines and work done• Create the agenda, invitations and other editorial collateral for industry conferences

• Produce reports and analytical insights that provide deep analysis, data and expert opinion on the companies and trends that are shaping the future of SEA across the private equity, venture capital and Mergers & Acquisitions industry verticals. • Ideating and building out an information database.

Singapore

• Manage the Global Market insights team, with a focus on Southeast Asia.• The global market insights team utilizes data-driven processes to produce intelligence across the platform businesses such as transportation, financial payments, logistics and new growth initiatives. • Role includes budgeting and Profit/Loss oversight across multi-million dollar budgets.• Dynamic, cross- functional stakeholder management

Singapore

• Improved the global oil pricing data for clients by formulating original pricing methodology to create synthetic physical oil pricing values off futures and swaps curves.• Enhanced the oil pricing data gathering process and sources by global data team through projects which utilized an Agile process using JIRA software.• Liaised with Bloomberg Global Data team to improve complex data feeds on the terminal; involving learning about back-end technological systems to push data to clients.• Liaised across the matrix – sales, product, editorial, global data teams to prioritize client solutions.• Prepared and delivered oil market presentations to strategic clients in Canada, Asia and Europe showcasing Bloomberg’s thought leadership and functionality.Key Achievements:• Client demonstrations of terminal data functionality.• Engaged C-level suite and presented the crude and refined products market outlook in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Canada and Europe.• Negotiated a deal with a top Asian oil broker to buy valuable data to improve the customer service.• Replaced Asia’s old oil pricing with the new original synthetic curves that were far more accurate; part of Europe oil pricing data also automated instead of relying on human effort.• Improved the quality of data for palm oil by at least 60% due to being able to secure new data feeds from better vendors.• Opened doors with crude exchanges and brokers in Canada.• Was requested to present original research on market outlook by a state-owned oil company at their forward planning meeting; only external party invited for the meeting.• My data-availability pre-sales presentations facilitated the sale of 6 new terminals, each costing in excess of US $24,000/year in China, Malaysia and Singapore.

Singapore

• Launched Asia’s First Word Oil Service, featuring news stories and market commentaries in summary format. • Lead editor in charge of setting up the Asia team, which was done through coordination with the London team.• Acted as a mentor to generate and sharpen story ideas for oil strategists without an editorial background.• Edited and shaped Asia FW crude oil news content.Key Achievements:• Steered Oil Day Book for Asia; A diary of most important market events for the upcoming day, as well as a curated list of the most important market stories overnight.

Houston, Texas

• Managed a team of 8 managers and editors for Canada, North America and Latin America covering the crude oil, residual fuel and derivative futures/swaps market.• Prepared global oil market analysis and presented at forums, private briefings to senior trading and government officials in Canada, North America, Mexico, Panama and China.• Communicated the Platts methodology and messaging to senior management to promote the brand.• Drafted editorial agendas for internal and external conference events.Key Achievements:• Successfully hired and trained new staff to develop new skills and expertise; comprising of 40% of the team.• Developed new price assessments and improved the existing ones.• Successfully managed the methodology challenges and issues, and liaised with the internal compliance team to advance standards across the team (IOSCO compliance). • Serviced all spreadsheets and developed processes to reduce error rates by 60%.• Assisted sales team in achieving higher sales by showcasing editorial thought leadership at key meetings and establishing a new crude oil assessment.

Singapore

• Directed editors in Asia and the Middle East covering regional crude oil, gasoline, naphtha, LPG, gasoil, jet fuel, fuel oil, bunkers, dirty and clean tanker shipping markets.• Supported the coverage of price assessments and news of all crude and refined products and management of Platts Asian oil team comprising of 17 editors for six months in 2011.• Presented at Platt’s forums across Asia and the Middle East and external engagements like the Oil Products Forum Asia in Kuwait.• Special country focus on the Indian oil markets included high-level engagements with senior Indian government officials such as the Indian Petroleum Secretary and Oil Minister.• Involved with special project work that included tracking compliance and revamp of the Platts IATA World Jet Fuel Index.Key Achievements:• Established team processes and standards to improve efficiency and transparency leading to a reduction in oil pricing data correction rates to almost zero, thereby reducing staff turnover.• Acted as the Editorial lead for five electronic trading window launches - directly led physical gasoline, fuel oil and middle distillates Phase 2 launches, which were the first Phase 2 rollouts globally.• Steered the Platts Strategic Market Engagement program.• Developed the first Platts Asian shipping forum in 2011 – prepared the agenda for key oil conference producer for its first Middle East products forum.• Launched the Asian shipping desk from scratch; assessments done by London prior, which was poorly received by clients due to time zone lag.• Strengthened the presence in Japanese and Korean bunker markets through direct engagement via high-level meetings and forums.• Established the Asia Biodiesel assessments, learnt about 9 markets in 1 year (most editors learn 1 market over 2 years).

Singapore

• Worked for IBM Business Consulting Services, think-tank for IBM at that time• Project management for thought leadership projects across 6 countries• Coordinated business-based research and insights across the region with IBM’s global think-tank, the IBM Institute for Business Value• Edited white papers produced by leading business consultants on diverse subject areas such as strategy and change management, wealth management, electronics and telecommunications• Drafted marketing synopses, bios and communications e.g. the regional IBM Forum 2005

Singapore

• Lead coverage for the Environment beat for three years, generating 4 exclusive stories/week. 80% of stories generated each week were ranked as top stories for the day• Covered all Environment-related major press conferences and events including Singapore’s electricity deregulation, conservation and infectious diseases such as SARS, bird flu and dengue• Reported on Parliamentary sessions, political events and national disasters e.g. Silk Air crash• Covered pharmaceutical industry, new medical drugs and procedures

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And English Language

A Levels, Economics, Accounting, Business Management