SPEAKERS | Energy Trading Week Online

STEPHANE GUY
Head of Business Development and Strategy
KPLER

Stephane Guy is Head of Business Development and Strategy, in charge of growing partnerships with all the companies of our ecosystem. He joined Kpler in 2015 to open the APAC office in Singapore, where he was located until the beginning of 2018. Prior to joining Kpler, he spent eight years in Asia trading equity derivatives in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Stephane has a master’s degree in applied mathematics as well as an MBA.

KPLER
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Kpler is the leading provider of transparency solutions in commodity markets. Through the Kpler Terminal, commodity professionals get access to real time information (granular and macro flows, inventories, freight) on more than 20 different commodities including LNG, LPG, Crude Oil, Refined Products and Dry Bulk. Everyday, more than 4000 users from world-class trading houses, energy firms, shipping companies and financial institutions trust Kpler to understand the market, drive new opportunities, monitor their competition and feed their own models. Founded in 2014, Kpler counts more than 100 employees located in major commodity and tech hubs (Houston, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore).

HUGH BRUNSWICK
CEO
Equias

Hugh Brunswick was appointed Managing Director in 2003 when EFET established EFETnet. In November 2017, EFET divested its ownership interest in EFETnet B.V. In June 2018 EFETnet changed its name to become Equias B.V. and Hugh was appointed as CEO.

Hugh has overseen the introduction and development of services to implement the EFET Standards and the steady growth of the user community with a focus on automation of operational and regulatory reporting processes. Hugh has over 20 years of experience in energy and commodity markets.

Prior to Equias, Hugh worked in business and IT consultancy for various consulting organisations. His work with EFET, EFETnet and now Equias provides Hugh with an opportunity to work in Europe and internationally with traders, brokers, exchanges, clearers and regulatory repositories and to develop a deep understanding of the energy and commodity markets from the strategic, regulatory, commercial, operational and technical perspectives.

He is a graduate of the University of Manchester with BSc (Hons) Physics and MSc Computer Science.

EDDIE TOFPIK
Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst
ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

YASMINE LI
Head of EMEA Surveillance
Macquarie

NAZIM OSMANCIK
Chief Risk Officer
Centrica EM&T

KARL-PETER HORSTMANN
Head of Markets Regulation
RWE Supply & Trading

Enverus Trading & Risk
Silver Sponsor

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Enverus Trading & Risk connects trade floors to the world of commodity and energy market data with forward curves risk management software for agile workforces, custom and out-of-the-box data management solutions for proprietary data, and highly accurate AI power market forecasting. Connect with our 500+ data and market intelligence channel partners through our flagship MarketView Desktop terminal.

GERFRIED KRÖMER

Senior Compliance Advisor
Shell Trading

KASPER WALET

AI Expert
AI Energizer

ROB PRINGLE
Chief Technology Officer
SmartestEnergy

JAN VOETMANN
Head of Analytics
Ørsted

JEAN-MARC BONNEFOUS
Managing Partner
Tellurian Capital

MARTIJN VAN GEMERT
Director Market Insights
Vattenfall

ALEXANDER RAGUZ
Head of Algorithmic Trading
4seee GmbH / ElbOil GmbH

AIGET: Associazione Italiana di Grossisti di Energia e Trader

The Italian Association of Energy Traders & Suppliers

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ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DI GROSSISTI DI ENERGIA E TRADER

AIGET: Associazione Italiana di Grossisti di Energia e Trader / The Italian Association of Energy Traders & Suppliers (www.aiget.org)

Created in 2000, with the beginning of the liberalization of the Italian energy markets, AIGET represents and promotes the interests of the Italian and foreign entrants in the supply, trading & shipping of electricity, natural gas and related services & certificates. The main targets of the Association are the promotion of competition, transparency and liquidity in the Italian energy markets & supporting the development and standardization of tradable energy products and contracts, including energy & weather derivatives.

SONIA GHOSH
Varo Energy
ETRM Specialist

The European Energy Retailers
ASSOCIATION PARTNER

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The European Energy Retailers (EER) represent the voice of Independent Energy & Solution Providers in EU-wide policy discussions. In order to achieve a well-functioning retail energy market, new suppliers and service providers must be able to enter into and compete in the market on equal terms.

TOM BENT

Principle And Commercial Energy Services

GEN10
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Gen10 focus on making the day-to-day tasks of commodity trading faster and simpler through automation and collaboration. Our technology empowers clients to Work Better. Together – completing the feedback loop between trading and finance to support smarter, safer trading decisions.

The cloud apps provide complete commodity management, with enhanced operational risk controls and powerful workflow and pricing engines that automate many of the manual, time-intensive commodity processes. Workflows facilitate enhanced collaboration whilst improving control and governance, driving safe efficiencies and visibility across your business for confident data-driven decision-making.
Gen10’s CTRM platform, Commodity.ManagerTM, includes end–to-end transaction processing and analytics, covering everything from fast trade capture, origination, PnL and sample management through export, trading, import, distribution, to final settlement and risk management.

Gen10 believe in making innovative, high value and flexible commodity management solutions. The UK-based development and support teams work in collaboration with clients to build up a real understanding of the challenges they face; delivering technology that drives value from their massive data flows and transforms their operations.

EQUIAS
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Equias is a proven partner that provides innovative, cost effective solutions and services for the energy trading community. We develop advanced solutions for automation of energy trading processes, based on open market standards. We focus on optimisation and adding value through technical insights and innovations that are equitable and accessible to all our clients.
At ETW Online you will hear more about Equias eTM, electronic Trade Monitoring and Equias eSM, electronic Settlement Matching.
• The trade and monitoring regulatory compliance service, eTM, is built for the European energy markets. It is configurable to your company’s unique situation and approach to monitoring. eTM is the most popular solution in the industry complying with MAR and mitigating risk under REMIT.
• eSM allows you to remove discrepancies and errors from settlement data, enabling automated payments to drive shorter (even daily) settlement cycles. Equias eSM is fully EFET compliant , ready for use and tested by over 20 early movers.

HENRIETTE ANZBÖCK

Head of Back Office
Alpiq

DIRK DAVELUY

Brokers & Exchange Relationship Manager – Trading Operations & Affairs
RWE Supply & Trading

MIKE BOSTAN

Coordinator, EFET Covid-19 Response
EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Mike Bostan is secretary of the Market Supervision Committee at the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET). He is also sharing responsibilities for the EFET Training and education programmes. Following the coronavirus pandemic, he was appointed coordinator of the overall EFET Covid-19 response. Mike worked previously for the Ministry of Affairs of Romania, the European Union Delegation to the United States and in the energy sector since 2014. He is a trained economist and political scientist and now is finalizing his PhD in European Energy Policies at the University of Maastricht. Mike is a native Romanian and speaks fluently English and French.

ELEVEN RECRUITMENT
MEDIA PARTNER

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“At Eleven Recruitment, the new name for Oil Recruitment, we’ve been building a reputation for a recruitment experience that’s better than ten out of ten since we launched in 1998.

We’re specialist recruiters in oil, gas, power, speciality chemicals and other commodities, working with leading trading houses, oil companies, utilities, shipowners and chemical companies in the UK and internationally.

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Get in touch today for a chat about your career development or how you’d like to build your team.”

SCALEFOCUS
SILVER SPONSOR

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Scalefocus is a global IT solutions delivery center with an impeccable record of accelerating customer success through innovation and technology. We create effective proprietary solutions in domains such as Energy & Utility, as well as Cloud Operations, Data Management, Smart Automation, and Digital Transformation. In the Energy & Utility sector, Scalefocus can help you tackle the challenges you’re facing in Digital Modernization, Enterprise Mobility & Data, as well as with your Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software systems. By offering expertise and know-how in strategic systems consulting, operational and process optimization, and ETRM & ERP integration, we proactively add value and solve problems.

POWER WORLD ANALYSIS
MEDIA PARTNER

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Power World Analysis is dedicated to bringing you the latest news and updates under Energy and Power Sector. We keep industry professionals and decision makers informed about this fast and dynamic Energy and Power market and enable them to make strategic decisions.

Variety of online marketing services and promotional activities through Power World Analysis help companies to reach their target audience and creates brand awareness. We also deliver weekly newsletter to our subscribers.

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ENERGY TRADERS ASSOCIATION
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Energy Traders Association (ETD) was founded by leading energy trading companies holding Electricity Wholesale Licenses in 2010 to promote liberal energy trading and development of sustainable, transparent and liquid markets in Turkey. The Istanbul-based Association currently has 54 members.

ETD is mandated to facilitate and promote universal rules, regulations and standards enabling fair trading environment towards a liberal energy market. ETD’s functions include not only the establishment of preliminary infrastructure ensuring transparent and accessible prices and market information for all, but also introduction of a widely accepted standard contract and defining and establishment of ethical code. In order to fulfill its objectives, ETD cooperates with many national and international Governmental and Non-Governmental institutions.

In terms of national connections and works, ETD participates in and organizes joint working groups including both members of ETD and Institutions with Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Energy Markets Regulation Authority, Competition Board, TEİAŞ (Turkish System Operator), EPİAŞ (Energy Markets Operation Company), Istanbul Exchange etc. Main subjects of this joint work are liberalization and competition, standardization, legal infrastructure of both wholesale and retail trade issues, transparency. We are proud of being very active during process of foundation of EPİAŞ, structuring products transacted in Istanbul Exchange and development of volume and operational enhancement of OTC markets in Turkey.

In terms of international connections, ETD and EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders) organized multiple meetings introducing the EFET Agreement to market participants and created a working group on the adaptation of the EFET Agreement into the Turkish market. Finally, EFET General Agreement Turkey version (EFET TR) was launched on 22 July 2011, which was followed by the execution of the first agreement by two leading companies in Turkey. Our efforts and studies towards introducing demand response management to Turkish energy market in cooperation with some European companies and institutions came to a visible level in regulatory frameworks. We are one of energy sector organisations, which is invited to consultation meetings and interviews for various reports on Turkish energy market, prepared by international organisations such as The World Bank Group and International Energy Acency.

BEACON
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The Beacon Platform is the only commodity and energy platform to provide access to all source code within an integrated development environment, together with front-to-back trading and risk management applications. Beacon’s open architecture model provides access to all source code, which enables the client –- not the vendor –- to own the full stack in a modern, cloud-based platform with automated elastic compute services. This transparency and flexibility empower clients to securely build, iteratively test, tweak and integrate proprietary models and analytics, and to extend end-user applications easily. Beacon removes the pain of designing new applications and strategies by streamlining the development and deployment process, enabling teams to rapidly experiment with new solutions and business models, all on the cloud.Unlike black-box solutions, Beacon gives commodity and energy companies and their developers the flexibility and scale they need to gain a competitive edge. This approach empowers clients to make the most out of Beacon and create their own enterprise intellectual property. This makes the Beacon Platform the only “Buy and Build on top of” commodity and energy enterprise innovative platform solution in the industry.

www.beacon.io

BROADPEAK
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BroadPeak’s flagship software K3 is the most used regulatory compliance platform. K3 is used by compliance and risk teams to automate regulatory reporting, monitor position limits and provide trade / trader surveillance.
Intuitively designed for non-technical users, K3 seamlessly connects to over 30 global exchanges, 25 trading systems and Trade Repositories/SDRs. K3 visualizes all data processed, gives the user instant error alerts.

www.broadpeakpartners.com

FIDECTUS
GOLD SPONSOR

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Fidectus is a Swiss service provider specializing in post-trade services for OTC energy and commodity trading. The Fidectus “Global Energy Network” (GEN) is the only cross-company and -provider post-trade processing and collaboration SaaS solution. Our unique open architecture model enables traders to not just own their data but their process at any point in time. Innovation, security, and cost-efficiency to all our clients are considered throughout the entire solution. Fidectus’ razor-sharp focus, thought leadership and neutrality amplify our first mover position for EFET’s electronic Settlement Matching (eSM).

GEN is fully EFET eSM compliant and enables traders to improve business process, efficiency, scalability and collaboration, to reduce operational risk and to use new tools for managing liquidity and settlement risk. It connects traders with energy and commodity trading market participants enabling them to

• instantly start eSM utilizing GEN’s OCR and enrichment rules for fully eSM compliant documents,
• be agnostic to connectivity and file formats for easy and quick integration (i.a. CSV, XML, JSON, Email, RESTful API, SFTP, ebXML, etc.),
• export and use your data in many different formats as PDF, CSV, XML, JSON etc.
• collaborate and solve disputes in real-time and across communication protocols,
• make audits easy and be fully compliant through an immutable audit-trail,
• provide eSM XML and PDF out-of-the-box to your counterparties addressing today’s regulatory needs,
• reduce operational risk and cost by > 50% allowing your staff to focus on more value-adding tasks,
• settle even close to real-time after delivery for settlement risk reduction and freeing up cash earlier,
• reduce cashflows via automated bilateral and multilateral netting, further unlocking cash for trading,
• track and apply incoming and outgoing payments to get the full end-to-end benefit,
• benefit of a rich variety of settlement and financial KPI’s for better decision making.

Experience the future of energy settlement, today!

MIKAEL KREINER

Head of Back Office
Ørsted

Pioneer Solutions
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Pioneer Solutions is a global provider of award-winning C/ETRM, environmental management and financial and regulatory compliance solutions. Since 2003, Pioneer has been serving some of the largest energy companies, utilities and midstream producers in the US and Europe.

Pioneer’s innovative and flexible solutions have been organically built for rapid implementation and superior services at an overall lower cost of ownership.

Pioneer’s suite of ETRM solutions are based on its web-based FARRMS platform and offer comprehensive front, middle, and back office process management for both physical and financial trades of all asset classes and commodity types.

Developed from the back to the front, resulting in industry-leading data processing and reporting capability, Pioneer’s modern easy-to-use applications deliver ready “out-of-the-box” or tailored functionality designed for ease of implementation and integration with existing systems. With a user-configurable environment for less reliance on vendor services, and with deployment options including a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service offering via www.trmtracker.com, Pioneer offers a fresh alternative to legacy C/ETRM systems

ZOE HALL

VP – Teal Lead for Process Automation
Castleton Commodities International

JAKOB BLOCH
CEO
Commodity Appointments

Jakob is arguably the most known headhunter in commodities with some 20+ years of search experience. During this time he has successfully built several leadership teams and personally concluded 200+ confidential strategic searches. Supported by a close group of dedicated researchers located in offices across US, EMEA and Asia, his work has involved talent acquisitions on pretty much every continent; across every commodity vertical and across a multitude of functions. He remains a close advisor to a select group of leaders. He is an active contributor, writer, video blogger and panellist to the industry on people trends, culture and talent strategies.
Oh, and he likes to run a lot.

EREN ERMAN

Compliance Technology Lead – Trade & Business Communication Surveillance
TP ICAP

Eren is a fire starter & entrepreneur at heart and loves to innovate and scale technology and products. As a Technology business advisor and innovator, he’s had the opportunity to work with some amazing companies – the common thread with each being an opportunity to come in from the ground up and help shape the future. His experience working for both large global companies (PwC, Deloitte, Constellation, TP ICAP) and technology companies (OpenLink, b-next, Motivii) have afforded him a unique perspective and set of skills. He also had the privilege of founding and building his own tech start-up and progressing through a prestigious start-up Accelerator Program in London. Ultimately, he is at his best helping solve unique problems, working across a cross-functional, diverse set of team(s) and learning from and teaching with one another.

ERDEM SEZER

Manager – Analysis and Trading Strategies
AKSA Enerji

KEN HAN

CEO
Enuit

Ken Han, co-founder of ENUIT®, began his career in software development management nearly 20 years ago at Nucleus Corporation where he moved from developer to lead developer and architect, eventually becoming VP of Software Development and lead system architect. Ken’s business acumen and technical vision help ENUIT® present a physical and financial, multi-commodity user-friendly E/CTRM. Ken designed the new standard in E/CTRM trading systems in the open-architectured ENTRADE® framework.

JÖRG REICHELT

Head of Settlement
EnBW

PABLO CÓRCOLES
Tech Project Manager –
Back Office
Endesa

Pablo Córcoles studied telecommunication engineering in Valencia, Spain. He joined Endesa’s Back Office department a year and a half ago to work within the trade supervision team. He is also part of a transversal digital team that acts as a bridge between the IT department and Endesa’s Back Office. He’s heavily involved in the company’s eSM tests and deployment.

GARY VASEY
Partner & Managing Director
ComTech Advisory

Dr. Vasey is an industry expert noted for his analysis, consulting, marketing, and branding skills. With over 29-years’ experience in the energy and commodities trading industry, Gary has experienced the industry’s volatility as an executive of a trading firm, geologist, consultant, software developer, analyst, and marketing practitioner, providing him with unique insights, not just into the entire value chain, but also into how to position, brand, and deliver products and services to the industry.

He is a noted expert on the commodity trading, transaction and risk management software industry and an accomplished industry analyst and thought leader.

Gary has published more than 200 articles on energy and commodities industry trends in a variety of publications, is a regular speaker at industry conferences, and is the co-author of the books Trends in Energy Trading, Transaction and Risk Management Software – A Primer and Selecting and Implementing ETRM Software – A Primer (with Patrick Reames). He also contributed two chapters to The Professional Risk Managers‘ Guide to Energy and Environmental Markets published by PRMIA and two chapters, co-written with Peter C. Fusaro, to Weather, Energy and Environmental Hedging – An Introduction (ICFAI University Press, 2007) edited by Amando F C Da Silva.

Gary is also the co-author of Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds – The New Investment Paradigm (Wiley, 2006) with Peter C. Fusaro, and of many trade press articles on hedge funds in the energy, commodities and environmental industry.

Gary holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

ANTONIO SEVILLA CERVANTES
Head of Back Office
Endesa

Electronic Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he began to work in Endesa in 1992 at the Energy Dispatching Center for Power Generation. He moved to the Back Office Department in 1995. He was responsible for the Energy Metering Unit from 2001 to 2007, and, since 2007, he is Head of Endesa’s Energy Management Back Office.

He is involved in different projects for the automation of Back Office’s processes, the improvement of the information management in the business and the implementation of the new regulations.

GAVIN FERGUSON
Head of Standardisation Workstream
EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Gavin has worked within the Gas and Power industry for nearly 40 years. He spent the first 15 years in IT. For much of the last 15 years, he served as Back Office Manager at Centrica, before moving into Business Change where he had the responsibility for implementing EMIR, REMIT Phase I and REMIT Phase II transaction reporting for British Gas Trading and Centrica Energy.

He has worked on many initiatives and served on industry Committees led by OFGEM, FIA, EFET and National Grid. He recently retired from his role at Centrica, but is keeping very active in the industry. He now heads EFET’s standardisation workstream, whose current main focus is Electronic Settlement Matching (eSM).

DR. JENS BARTENSCHLAGER
CEO & FOUNDER
FIDECTUS AG

Dr. Jens Bartenschlager is co-founder and CEO of Fidectus, a first mover for electronic Settlement Matching (eSM) in the European OTC energy trading industry. He has spent the past years working with leading European Energy trading companies to define a path to eSM. During this time, he was Head of Energy & Utilities Consulting Switzerland at a global audit firm and Associate Partner of a Swiss management consulting boutique. He brings 15+ years’ extensive experience in OTC settlements, energy trading and risk management especially in back and middle office, trading IT, innovation and energy sales. He is a business information systems scientist and holds a doctorate in strategy implementation from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

ENUIT
GOLD SPONSOR

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Enuit provides leading enterprise risk management solutions for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide.

We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line.

Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: To bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. The core solution Entrade is all of this and more. And, it really works. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: From done deal through sent bill.

Morningstar

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