People moves and talent changes in the oil market. An appraisal by niche headhunting company Commodity Appointments Group

1. We head first to Dubai as Wilhelm von Schweinitz leaves BP after 16 years to
Also joining Mercuria is Nathan
Feely, now an Analyst in oil trading
at its London offices. Nathan had
handled analysis at Glencore since
2018 for energy operations, risk,
middle distillates and fuel oil.
New job for Friedrich Maack as Oil Trader for Trafigura in Geneva.
Hamburg and Zug have been his most recent locations, while in supply
trading at Varo Energy. Before that he was in Munich to be an analyst
with private equity company Lucatis.
Gemcorp
hires duo
in oil
Two additions to the Refining & Oils team at London-based Gemcorp
Commodities Trading are Josh Ward and Jorden van Foreest. Josh
enters as Trader in refined products and crude oil after stints in both BP
and Blue Oil Energy. Jorden worked in the Royal Netherlands and U.S.
navies before heading to Glencore at the start of a series of
appointments in LNG and oil for the group in London and West Africa.
His most recent role was with VTTI in Rotterdam as a commercial
manager responsible for their Euro Tank storage. At Gemcorp he is BD
Manager-Africa.
move from from London to become Head-Fuel Oil Trading & Origination in the EMEAA
territories for Mercuria Energy Trading. He previously held various roles at BP before
trading ethanol /gasoline for 2 years, and fuel oil from 2012 onwards.

2. Commodity trading digitiser VAKT Global brings in
David Carey to be Head-Business Application
Development. He was at Morgan Stanley as an ED in
transaction processing system development for oil,
among others, when its oil trading and storage business
was sold to CCI. Subsequently David served as
Castleton’s head of IT development for global oil.
News from Houston that energy intelligence
provider Vortexa welcomes Peter Van Roten as
Sales Director. Over the past eight years Peter
has been a broker with Classic Energy and
Axiom Derivatives, an account manager with IVG
Energy and sales director in North American oil
and natural gas with Genscape.
Jamie Nutt is Vattenfall’s newest Cross-
Commodity Trader, hired from being an adviser
on hedging and trading for ENOC in Dubai.
Jamie’s traded oil derivatives for ICBC Standard
Bank, was a VP in oil trading for Mitsui Bussan
Commodities and served as a trader at Glencore,
E.ON, Klesch and Centrica Energy.
At refined oil products specialist Novum Energy Trading
in Houston, Carlos Moreno arrives as Distillate Trader
from a brokerage role with BAT Commodities. His former
spells in trading distillates came at Cargill and Macquarie
Commodities Trading US.
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Yves Mindren is newly at BNP Paribas in the capacity of Delta 1 Oil Trader. Back in 2015 Yves went from an
SCB internship to be a junior market analyst with Litasco/Lukoil in Geneva. Remaining with the company, he
became first a trading assistant and then a junior trader particularly for middle distillates.

3. New into PetroChina International (America) to be Oil Trader is
Oscar Marrero, who joins from oil brokerage with Omega
Commodities in New York. Before that, Oscar was Connecticut-
based when with Statoil, employed in oil blending and
scheduling.
Kevin McGovern enters the Houston
office of Eni T&S to be Trading
Manager for crude and products. His
resumé shows Kevin has formerly
traded crude for Chevron, Arcadia
and Kempstar.
Head of Crude Trading at Mandara
Energy is Yohan Kakon’s new slot. It
follows crude-oil trader positions for
Yohan with both Cargill and
Macquarie.
Promotion at Trafigura to report for Rhys Gatefield. From trading North Sea crude, he’s made Global Fuel Spec
Trader. Although Rhys was a Lukoil/Litasco trader between 2016-2018, he’d been at Trafigura in trading
capacities for seven years previously.
New podcast episode: Women in Commodities
Tamara Weinert, CEO Americas, Outokumpu, joins us
for a chat about fostering performance culture, diverse
teams and tackles the elephant in the room of gender
diversity imbalances in commodity companies.
And finally, a move from London to Geneva takes Damir Bajric to Gunvor International for a cross-commodity
position in origination and BD. Damir comes from being at the head of CCI’s oil origination. He was in Geneva
previously when with Cargill Petroleum.
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We note Mabanaft reported recently that Anke Tannhäuser is the new MD of its German arm --- she comes
from being the BP Europe board member responsible for supply and marketing and a former commercial
director within its European oil trading business.