Andrew is the Founder & MD at Avatar Commodities. He has had a diverse career in international commodities for over 25 years, posted in four continents, in a variety of disciplines with a range of physical trading & financial organisations. Each role has had him successfully leading & developing businesses, creating sustainable value in varied products & services across agriculture, energy & mined resources. He is a passionate advocate of leading positive evolution in commodity markets with innovation, collaboration, transparency & accountability. He has won various industry awards (e.g. SGX Iron Ore Trader of the Year), appears regularly in the media, and is a sought-after speaker & consultant. Andrew also devotes time as a director & mentor with WIMAR (Women In Mining And Resources) as an advocate of gender equality, inclusion & diversity. Recently he has added carbon emissions & ESG to his expertise in joining Viridios Capital which has developed propriety AI to bring unique transparency in valuation to the voluntary carbon, ESG & SDG ecosystem while generating significant returns for investors. In 2017 he founded Avatar Commodities, which successfully designed, built & delivered significant change & value for Anglo American, later joining them as head of iron ore trading.

Başak graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Business Administration in 1997. She worked for Ernst & Young as an auditor and consultant until 2003, based in Turkey as well as in the CIS. Between 2003 and 2009, she lead re-structuring and strategic management projects of various large-scale industrial enterprises and a number of greenfield investment projects in Azerbaijan. During the course of her work, she gained extensive knowledge and experience in leading business relations and projects in the UK, Holland, Switzerland, Hong Kong and China. Between 2010-2013 Başak worked as the Marketing Director at OYAK Mining Metallurgy Group, including Erdemir and Isdemir, two biggest integrated flat steel producers operating in Turkey. Since 2013, she is the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer of the Group and since 2015, General Manager of Ersem, Erdemir Steel Service Company. She also undertook board member responsibilities in Turkish Steel Producers Association and currently serves as the vice president of Turkish Steel Exporters Association.

Mr Gupta has more than 24 years of progressive experience in international business, sales & marketing, strategic planning, supply chain management, production, and project management. He is an effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business.  Mr Gupta is adept at market research & analysis, including market demand and customer mapping as well as customer relationship management. He is also experienced in strategy formulation and implementation for sustainable business and growth areas. He is a Certified Auditor of TS16949 and assessor for TBEM.

Ms. Cuc was majored and attained B.S. International Business at Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2004. She been working for Hoa Phat Group – a leading steel producer in Vietnam for more than 6 years. In her first role with the company, she was procurement executive at Hoa Phat Hai Duong Steel JSC, the largest blast furnace steel integrated plant producing long products in the north of Vietnam. After 5 years, she joined the group’s newest steel plant,  Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel JSC, which has a rated annual capacity of 4.8 million tonnes including long products and flat products. Early this year,  Hoa Phat Group set up its first overseas office Hoa Phat Trading International  Pte Ltd In Singapore. Ms Cuc is the Managing Director of this Singapore office. The Singapore office is responsible for the promotion of  Hoa Phat’s steel products in global markets, as well as in the sourcing of raw materials.

Gerry is Managing Director of  the Stemcor Group’s Singapore based  trading hub  and  oversees  all  Stemcor’s activities in Asia.  He  joined  Stemcor   in London in 1986 as a  fresh graduate   and  moved to Singapore  one year later. Over the  last  30 years he has assumed a number of roles  for Stemcor , both locally and at Group level ,  from where he has been instrumental in developing  Stemcor’s Asian footprint in both  steel and steel-making raw materials . Gerry  is also a founding Director and current  Chairman of the International Steel Trade Association’s Singapore branch which  he helped establish in 2016. ISTA is an Association  that  brings together  participants  from all aspects of the international  steel  industry  and is committed to the promotion of free and fair trade.  

Ian is a highly regarded industry analyst, with over 20 years experience in metals, starting at CRU in London. Since 2003 Ian was based in Shanghai, China initially with Steel Business Briefing and then Macquarie, before a five-year stint at Rio Tinto running their iron ore analysis. Since 2010 Ian worked as a sell-side analyst with CLSA, Macquarie and others based in Shanghai and Singapore and continues to bring his leading-edge thoughts on the markets as an unbiased independent analyst. 

Mario Montanari is a Senior Manager at Mitsubishi Corporation RtM International, where he engages in iron ore trading and also at the development of a research area for the same commodity. Mario has started his career in the sugar industry in Brazil after graduating in an International Relations and Commerce degree at university. Along his career, he has also worked at other sugar and ethanol trading houses, however in the past 9 years he has been deeply involved in Metals trading and investment at Mitsubishi Corporation do Brazil before being transferred to Singapore in 2016 to join RtM. Besides that Mario also holds a Master’s Degree in Global Political Economy from the University of Kassel in Germany.

Keyvan is the owner and CEO of Jame Tejarat Company (JTC) since its establishment in 2002. He has been exporting minerals and steel value chain products especially iron ore, concentrate, HBI, steel products to various markets, but mainly to China and ASEAN countries, for about 20 Years. He has 32 years solid experience in the field of mining production & export of commodities. He was a Member of the Board & Head of International Affairs of IROPEX (Iranian Iron Ore Producers & Exporters Association) from 2012 up to 2017. Keyvan has a Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering, Masters degree in Medical Engineering and MBA and Phd. in Radiology from Iranian Reputable Government Universities and numerous post-graduation courses in Mining, Steel & Management Fields from Iranian & Foreign Universities. Currently, he is a Professor & Senior Analyst in International Economy and Commodities and has numerous articles published in Iranian & International Websites, News Agencies & Media. Keyvan had 158th successful attendance as Keynote S., Speaker or panelist in International Overseas Conferences Worldwide during the past Decade.

Arshdeep Singh is a Director at Vital Solutions, a Singapore-based trading company which serves the supply chains globally for the paper and the steel industry via investments in supply chain linkages, financing, offtakes and long term contracts. Prior to this role, Arshdeep was the Global Trading Manager for ferrous commodities at Cargill for over 14 years, where he was instrumental in building their global scrap & metallics business .

Kirill joined Energoprom in March of 2016, before that during 10 years he worked for one of the leading steel companies in Russia – EvrazHolding as a Chief analyst in Strategic planning direction. Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, Economic Faculty  in 1994, PhD in Macroeconomics and Modelling (Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004). From October 2007 to March 2008 worked as a fellow from Evraz in the World Steel Association.

Bryan is an experienced commodities trader and risk manager with over 13 years of experience in companies like Noble, Citibank and Deutsche Bank. He has lead regional trading teams across Asia for the last 10 years and has a strong knowledge of the Bulk commodity business here in Asia in Coal and Iron ore. At Citibank he lead the Iron ore and steel trading business for Asia Pacific while based in Shanghai for the last 7 years and then went on to develop the business for Deutsche Bank on both the Bulk and base metals side. At all of these places his focus was on managing the trading margin or developing new methods to manage the risk. Having a broad background in different commodity products & companies allows him to bring new ideas and methods to solving problems and helping clients. In Arcadia he now is managing the Sales and structuring for the whole Asia Pacific coordinating the risk management, physical sales and structuring for the wider group.

Edric joined the LME in 2014 and is based in our Singapore office, where he is Head of Corporate Sales in Asia. He has many years of experience in commodity price risk management. Previously, he worked at Mizuho Bank and was responsible for marketing commodity derivatives and advising hedging strategies to corporate customers. Prior to that, he worked for a world-renowned airline, managing their jet fuel risk book. Edric delivers our bespoke training courses in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dan is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - the birthplace of the US steel industry - and he started in the industry in 2009 with the original Steel Business Briefing. Prior to that, Dan covered police and military affairs in Beaufort, South Carolina, and spot news for the Valley News Dispatch in Tarentum, PA. As part of the North American Kallanish team, Dan covers flats, tubular products and specialty steel products. 

Tim has been working for Trafigura for the last 8 years.  He is currently responsible for Trafigura’s bulks derivative business as well as management of the iron ore book. He has previously worked for Noble Group and Goldman Sachs in London.  He has a MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Nottingham, UK.  He lives in Singapore with his wife and 3 children.

Roger has 25 years experience in the ferrous sector. He has specialised in steel end use markets and is skilled at using and interpreting trade data as part of market studies. He is a vetted Expert on steel on the UK Register of Expert Witnesses. He has extensive knowledge of the world's steel producers, EAF and integrated routes, and their raw materials requirements, downstream assets and markets. He has performed due diligence on many international steel firms, and ferrous scrap re-processors. Recent work has included flat products, automotive steels including AHSS and UHSS, plate markets, cold rolled, galvanised and pre-painted steels. He has also performed work on long products, electrical steels and tinplate. Since 1993, he has been a close observer of the steel sector in China and its impact on the world.

Jin is Director of Commodities at SGX. His responsibilities include development and enhancement of commodity derivative products including iron ore and coking coal. Before joining SGX, he was a trader at Pavilion Gas and Hess Energy Trading Company. He started his career at Glencore in 2003 where he was on the graduate trader programme in the London office before being transferred to Singapore. Jin graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Steven Randall has over 25 years of experience in the steel, metals and mining sectors where he has worked in a range of consulting, corporate and entrepreneurial roles. Steven co-founded The Steel Index (TSI), a specialist ferrous price information service, in 2006. He quickly established TSI as the leading provider of benchmark prices for iron ore, steel and scrap, used by industrial companies worldwide and as the settlement basis for over 30 futures/derivatives contracts on commodities exchanges in Asia, Europe and North America – most notably the SGX iron ore contracts and LME steel scrap contract. Having built TSI into a multi-million $ business, it was sold to S&P Global Platts in 2011. Steven continued as TSI’s Managing Director for a further four years before being appointed as the Director of Global Content (pricing, news and analysis) for all of Platts metals and TSI. He left this position at the end of June 2016 to pursue new ventures and undertake independent consulting assignments. In 2021 Steven joined the Kallanish team to set up Kallanish Index Services. Kallanish Index Services (KIS) specialises in compiling price indices for commodity markets using a rigorous, data-driven methodology. It works closely with market participants to compile the price indices and other essential industry data they need for business success. KIS is independent and impartial, with a small team of analysts based around the world. Prior to establishing TSI, Steven was the Director of Strategy at Corus, the major European steel producer acquired by Tata Steel in 2007. In this role he was responsible for the Group’s corporate strategy and planning activities for over four years. Steven started his career as a strategy consultant in 1988, working for over eleven years with Hatch Beddows in Europe and North America, specialising in steel industry projects.  Following this, he joined Steelscreen, an independent metals e-marketplace, as its UK General Manager. Steven holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University.