Gas & LNG
Significant talent moves
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Our Gas & LNG round-up of people moves begins with Eni T&S in Milan who have been joined by Lorenzo Monaco, as a Natural Gas Trader. He’s been a carbon market specialist since starting with Eco-Way in 2005 and through moves to Cantor CO2e in London and back to the Milan area for Puraction and in his initial role at most recent employer Electrade.
Dragana Butulija moves from London to Hamburg, in swapping a gas trading role with EDF for being a Vattenfall gas portfolio trader. After completing an economics diploma at the University of Mannheim in 2010, Dragana went through a trading qualification programme while with E.On Global Commodities in Düsseldorf and worked there as a gas optimiser until 2015.
Over to the Rome offices of Axpo Italia for news of the appointment of Federico Celani Tomassoni, who joins as Manager-Gas Trading & Logistics. It brings him back to Italy from London and four years at the head of power trading for the Green Network group. Federico’s previous stint in Italy had been with Enel.
Matthew Monday is back at Vitol in Houston, three years after leaving its gas trading operation to be a U.S. natural gas trader for the north-east region and New England on behalf of Castleton Commodities International. This time, Matthew adopts a Vitol mantle as Natural Gas Trader.
*Based on moves tracked by Commodity Appointments in last 12 months.
*Based on moves tracked by Commodity Appointments in last 12 months.
By recruiting Markus Boehmer to be Head of Gas Flex & Structure, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg makes him the leader of a group of traders for the Karlsruhe group’s portfolio. He joins from being lead flexibility trader at Equinor and, before that, London-based Director-Gas & power for BNP Paribas.
Lawrence Wang is back at private investment firm Sanlin LLC in Houston after nearly four years with Vitol as a trader in natural gas. In his previous time with Sanlin, Lawrence was a director. Now he returns to be MD. He was with BP for 11 years until 2007, rising to be Trading Manager, and followed that with seven years for CCI as Head of West and North-East Natural Gas and Head of US Basis Trading.
In Denmark, Kristian Junker takes charge of both trading teams --- at Centrica Energy Trading’s Danish office in Aalborg and in Singapore --- as Head of Gas Cross Border. Kristian previously led Centrica’s gas spot trading.
Recording that Jan Jacobsgaard is now Senior Trader in gas/power/emissions and German Desk Manager at PGE Trading in Berlin allows us to note that it is a subsidiary of Poland’s Polska Grupa Energetyczna, which announced recently its involvement in a project with the Polish institute of power engineering to use natural gas in powering stationary fuel cells to produce both heat and electricity. Jan Jacobsgaard comes to the German office of PGE after trading gas and power at natGas.
New directions for Alex Pashley bring him from reporting for news media to Axpo in Zurich and an appointment as a Gas/LNG Analyst. Alex covered natural gas and coal markets while in his most recent assignment at energy/commodities information house Argus Media, publisher of Argus LNG Daily and Argus European Natural Gas. He has also been a foreign correspondent in South America.
Cristiano Campi moves within Eni T&S from managing biofuels trading in London, to Trading & Portfolio Manager-Northern Europe Gas at the company’s Brussels office where he also becomes branch manager. Before his time with Eni, Cristiano was head of energy structured products for Tullett Prebon and in charge of energy sales for Credit Agricole CIB.
Cargill have made Paul Kalish their Director of Energy Derivatives, after hiring him from INTL FCStone where he had been Senior Risk Manager, E&P Oil & Gas Division.
Uniper has appointed a new Director Origination
Newly hired by Engie Global Markets to be a quant trader in Paris, Pierre-Emile Ansart ends nine years with Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking as a strategist/quant in gas, power, coal and carbon prop trading. He had gone to SGCIB after performing a similar role for Gaselys.
Joshua Ditman is now a Natural Gas Senior Trader at ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy in Texas, having left Constellation after 13 years. His final Baltimore position for Constellation had been as a senior trader in East Gas Trading.
Senior Structured Gas Trader at Switzerland’s Alpiq is the new job title for Björn Jöckel. He was previously a senior options trader for Uniper and also had traded options for Vattenfall Energy Trading between 2013 and 2016.
Highlights in LNG moves include a move to Clarksons Platou for Fabio Reale as he becomes their new Head of LNG Analysis. He held his previous role of Head of Content - European Gas and Power at S&P Global Platts since 2014. Also leaving Platts is Frank Konertz, who has moved to EnBW as their Head of Long Term Analysis in Germany. Frank worked at Platts for the last three and a half years, first as a senior manager of long term gas analytics and later as Head of LNG Analytics.
Over in Singapore, Wenduan Tan is promoted to LNG Trading Manager at ExxonMobil, from his previous role as Lead Short-Term LNG Analytics Advisor. Before working for ExxonMobil, Wenduan spent 5 years at Pavilion Energy working on business development, portfolio optimisation and financial trading.
Uday Kiran joins the Singapore offices of Eni, as a senior business developer. He previously held the role of VP of Business Development at Total in India. Before this, he held roles at Engie and Reliance, also in India.
Registered in Bermuda and with its principal administrative office in London, Golar LNG also operates out of Houston. That becomes the new base of Kasciandro Senem, now appointed Exec. VP-LNG Origination & Trading for Golar Power. It follows his move from Petrobras, where he was in charge of worldwide LNG trading and origination and manager of natural gas sales in the US.
Matthew Romero in Houston has become Director-Origination for Uniper after 18 months as manager of LNG business development at Glencore. Matthew had previously spent eight years in Doha, in the role of a RasGas advisor on LNG sales and origination across Asia as well as being a senior marketer and analyst.
Socar Trading’s headcount in London for LNG activities has increased with the addition of Matt Beven to be LNG market risk analyst. His most recent London posting had been with Total, in a middle-office role on trading risk control.
We have further advancement to report for Milorad Doljanin. At different times he has been responsible for the development of Gazprom’s LNG business in the Asia-Pacific region, leader of LNG origination for E.On Global Commodities in Düsseldorf and in London as Head of LNG for PetroChina International. He remains in London, but now as COO for Avenir LNG.
METI (Met International) in Zug is the Met Group’s power trading arm directed at markets in Western Europe. It has named its senior portfolio manager, Roberto Borghetti, to be Head of Portfolio Management. Roberto has been with METI for a year, joining from Enoi --- he headed its origination and logistics.
Leia Andrews in London is at a new employer in the shape of Jera Global Markets, which has made her a Senior LNG Commercial Operator. It brings to an end almost two years in operations at Angola LNG and previously, five years trading with Petronas LNG.
And finally, three more London appointments in LNG to note: James Bloom as Senior LNG Trader at Mercuria Energy Trading, Jeremy Tricon as LNG Trader at Jera Global Markets and David Gillan as LNG Operations Executive at Mitsui. James was previously with Jera and has also traded LNG for EDF. Jeremy is ex-Tellurian and Koch S&T. David’s move to the London branch of Mitsui & Co Energy Trading Singapore is from Gazprom Global LNG.
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This is merely a snapshot of some of the recent people moves and associated trends observed by our Gas & LNG research team at Commodity.
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