Jack is Managing Director at Carlingford and has over 25 years of commodity derivative trading and origination experience. He was previously Managing Director, EMEA Marketing for commodities at Nomura, Mitsui, Standard Bank and before that at Bank of America (attaining several Risk Awards including “Crude Oil House of the Year” 2003). Jack has transacted or overseen every type of commodity and derivative transaction in that time from milk to rubber, metals to carbon but primarily been dedicated to the energy markets.

Hugh is an Executive Director at Carlingford with over 20 years of experience in commodity finance and related hedging activities. Hugh spent most of his career at financial institutions including Bank of America, Macquarie and MUFG, where his core focus was on oil & gas debt financing and related commodity trading. During his tenure at these institutions, he was based on major energy and finance centres including New York, Houston, London and Tokyo He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Graham joined from Nomura International, where he worked in the commodities division and fund derivatives structuring group.  Graham holds a degree in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Imperial College London. Graham has c. 15 years of corporate finance experience specialising in energy and natural resources.

Dominic is an Executive Director at Carlingford with more than 15 years of experience.  His background includes c. 10 years in O&G investment banking starting at BNP Paribas then most recently running Nomura’s EMEA O&G business.  Prior to banking Dominic spent 5 years within the O&G industry as a Senior Geoscientist at ERC Equipoise.  He holds masters in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and Exploration Geophysics from Leeds.

Beniam recently joined Carlingford from a family office where he managed investments in several sectors including the commodities space. He has worked on both the sell-side (Nomura, J.P. Morgan, ABG Sundal Collier) and the buy-side (Dunross, Industrivärden), where he spent 10 years working in the equity markets. Beniam holds a master’s degree in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and is a CFA Charterholder.