Singapore Coking Coal Conference 2024 from S&P Global Commodity Insights

Speakers

Dan Horn
EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, Alpha Metallurgical Resources

Dan Horn is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Alpha Metallurgical Resources, a role he has held since January 2022. He was previously Executive Vice President of Sales for the company and President of Alpha Coal Sales, LLC. Mr. Horn previously held a similar role at Alpha Natural Resources, where he served for over a decade and had responsibility for domestic and seaborne metallurgical sales.

Previously, Mr. Horn led the coal and coke procurement team at Bethlehem Steel Corporation after serving in various engineering and operating roles at Bethlehem’s underground coal mines. Mr. Horn holds a bachelor of science degree in mining engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master of business administration degree from St. Francis University. He is a registered professional engineer and a licensed underground mine foreman.

Ramaswamy Visweswaran
Commercial Director, Arjas Steel

Mr. Ramaswamy Visweswaran is the Managing Director of Arjas Modern Steel Private Ltd. and Commercial Director of Arjas Steel Private Limited. He is responsible for the entire functioning of Arjas Modern Steel which was acquired by Arjas group couple of years back and is witnessing a dramatic turnaround from a nearly Defunct business to a growing and Profit making enterprise. In case of Arjas Steel Pvt Ltd, he is responsible for entire Sales & Marketing, Commercial and Procurement activities apart from Business Development.

Prior to joining Arjas Group in Dec 2006, he was Vice President Sales & Marketing with Sunflag Iron & Steel, which is one of the leading Special steel manufacturers in India. He was with Sunflag for 10+ years leading their growth as a pioneer in the automotive special steel sector.

During 1994-1996, he was working with SGS India, Heading the Quality Management systems. He started his career with TVS group in 1985 where he joined as Graduate Engineer Trainee and worked in various capacities till 1994.

Visweswaran has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Tiruchirappalli, He has also done a Full time Executive M.B.A program from IIM-Bangalore and a program on Cross Cultural relationships from INSEAD. He speaks several Indian Languages like Tamil, Telugu & Hindi apart from English.

Tiankuo Jiang
Metallurgical Coal & Coke Trader, Century Commodities Solution

TK Jiang, based in Singapore, is the metallurgical coal and coke trader of Century Commodities Solution (CCS) with an annual traded coal volume of close to 90 million mt.

With a keen interest in the commodity market, TK began his career in an established price reporting agency publishing global met coal and coke price benchmarks, right after graduating from Singapore Management University.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Management (Summa Cum Laude) with a double major in Finance and Corporate Communication.

Jeffery Lu
Senior Business Manager, E-Commodities

Jeffery Lu is E-Commodities Senior Business Manager based in Singapore. Jeff has been in the international commodity business for more than 17 years and has hands-on experience with building supply and demand models, analyzing trade flows as well as producing price forecasts. Before E-Commodities, Jeff worked for some of the largest firms globally including S&P Global, Noble Group, Czarnikow Group and RCMA Group. Jeff has a master’s degree in intercultural business communication.

Vincent Liu Xin
Director – Sales & Derivaties, Exen Resources

Vincent Liu Xin has over a decade of experience in cross-commodity trading. Vincent started his career at BHP Billiton, moving through various marketing functions of different commodities such as manganese ore and petroleum. Vincent then moved to Noble Group, focusing on metallurgical coal. In 2014, he joined Exen Resources where he now manages the sales and derivatives functions.

Michael Gray
Managing Director, Jameson Resources Limited

Michael Gray has more than 30 years’ experience in the development and operation of major mining and infrastructure projects during various senior roles with Macarthur Coal, Middlemount Coal, Bandanna Energy and currently as Managing Director of Jameson Resources Limited (ASX:JAL).

In that time, he has been involved in the planning and development of a number of Australia’s most successful greenfield steelmaking coal projects including Coppabella, Moorvale, Middlemount and most recently the Bluff PCI Project.

In these roles, Mr Gray has utilised his extensive experience in environmental assessment and permitting, Indigenous and stakeholder engagement, project financing, construction management and customer development to develop projects in close partnership with Indigenous Nations, landowners, key contractors and suppliers and some of the world’s leading steelmakers.

At Jameson Resources, Mr Gray is leading the permitting and approval process for the Crown Mountain Hard Coking Coal Project in British Columbia, Canada. Jameson has adopted a landmark approach to First Nations engagement for the development of that project and is committed to being an ESG Leader among steelmaking coal developers.

Mr Gray holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from University of Queensland, a Masters of Business Administration from Deakin University, is a graduate of the Australian Company Directors’ Course and was the inaugural winner of the Talbot Family Foundation International Company Directors Scholarship.

Aravind Rajagopalan
VP, Commercial, JSW Steel Limited

ARAVIND Rajagopalan, 52 years, is currently the Vice President (Commercial and Purchase) and in-charge of procurement of all metallurgical coals and fluxes for JSW Group. He has over 31 years of experience in the steel industry. A Bachelors in Technology in Mechanical Engineering, he has straddled various roles from Cold Rolling Operations, Project Imports, Customer Service and Bulk Raw Material Procurement.

Toby Hassall
Lead Analyst, Coal Market Research, LSEG Data & Analytics

Toby Hassall is Lead Analyst, Coal Market Research, currently based in Singapore with responsibility for analysis of metallurgical and thermal coal supply, demand, and prices. He has over fifteen years' experience in commodity market research, focused on coal, iron ore, and steel. Prior to joining LSEG, Toby has held roles with CRU, Aurizon, Westpac Banking Corporation, and the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Tim Peirce
Chief Commercial Officer, M Resources

M Resources is an independent marketing, trading and investment company with a production base in Australia, and global market operations. Since joining in 2021, Tim has supported development of the groups growth and execution of marketing, logistics and trading operations. Prior to joining M Resources Tim lead the sales and marketing function for the Curragh mine, including all aspects of maximising the value of the Curragh resource in the market and accountability for all offsite infrastructure.

Before leading sales for Curragh mine, Tim held various positions within Wesfarmers (as the prior owner of the Curragh asset), predominantly focussed on business development and major investment decisions.

Tim’s background is an engineer, holding positions with WorleyParsons Australia in the Minerals and Metals Division and with BHP Billiton at the Boodarie Hot Briquetted Iron project in Western Australia. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Dr. Sebastian Langendorf
Founder & CEO, Meranti Green Steel

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Ted O’Brien
Managing Partner & Chief Commercial Officer, Oluma Resources

Ted O’Brien is Managing Partner and Chief Commercial Officer of Oluma Resources. Prior to launching Oluma Resources in September 2021, Ted spent five years with Xcoal, most recently as Vice President – Pacific Basin Operations, based in Singapore. Ted has extensive experience in coal marketing and logistics, and is well versed in the interplay between geopolitics, macroeconomic developments, and global coal markets.

Prior to joining Xcoal, Ted spent 10 years at Doyle Trading Consultants, LLC, culminating in his role as CEO.

Ted serves as an Independent Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee on the Board of the Goehring & Rozenczwajg Resources Fund.

Barry Tudor
CEO, Pembroke Resources

Barry Tudor is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Pembroke Resources. A coal industry leader for two decades, he has held senior executive positions in several listed and international resource companies, including CEO and Managing Director of ASX listed Gloucester Coal, CEO of Exalt Resources Limited, Managing Director - Australian Operations and Senior Vice President - Strategy for SGX listed Noble Group. Through strategic development and value enhancement he has successfully built several steelmaking coal enterprises and has led operations through all stages of the commodities cycle. After leading the hostile takeover of Gloucester Coal, Barry was instrumental in driving a dramatic increase in company value.

In 2014 Barry founded Pembroke Resources with a vision to create a significant new steelmaking coal enterprise. In 2016 he acquired high quality exploration concessions in the Bowen Basin of Queensland which he integrated to create the Olive Downs Complex, which will become one of the world’s largest suppliers of steelmaking coal. In 2018 Barry expanded Pembroke’s operations to include a high-quality steelmaking coal operation in Central Kalimantan Indonesia, developing the asset from greenfield to production in three years, using local expertise overarched with the same strategic focus and approach.

Under Barry’s leadership the Olive Downs Complex has progressed rapidly through the rigorous approvals process and is now fully financed and in the final stages of construction. The success of the billion-dollar development has been in large part due to a dedicated focus to create a “model mine” utilising the latest approaches to mining while meeting and exceeding today’s demanding standards. Barry has been hands-on in creating a business that ensures conservation, environmental, social, and governance initiatives are the priority.

Barry started his career at KPMG, followed by a variety of senior regional and international roles in finance, management and marketing. Barry holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Macquarie University and a Master of Business Administration degree from MGSM. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Institute of Company Directors in Australia.

Myles Perrin
Vice President – Trading & Marketing, Square Resources

Myles started out at Anglo American, taking on a mix of logistics and Book Owner roles. Moving to Global Coal, Myles worked on the development and launch of the Met coal trading screen, brokering c4.5Mt over the initial years of its operation. 2017 saw the opportunity to move to a trading role at Xcoal, looking at a mix of traded and offtake coals, as well as derivative products and freight. Moving to Square Resources, Myles has responsibility for a Singapore desk focusing on trading and marketing of a range of Australian, Colombian, Indonesian and US coals, as well as keeping a firm focus on paper and freight.

Oliver Green
Manager – Derivatives Trading, Square Resources

Oliver Green embarked on his professional journey in the commodities sector, gaining experience through roles at JP Morgan and Smartest Energy before joining GFI Brokers, where he initially worked on the thermal coal desk. His responsibilities later extended to metallurgical coal, including the establishment of a desk in Singapore. Despite eventually transitioning back to the thermal side, he maintained a lead broker role for metallurgical coal in London. In February 2024, Oliver made a career move to Square Resources, assuming the position of Derivatives Trader, specializing in coal indices. He holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from Bournemouth University.

Goh Jenn Yang
Commodities, SGX

Goh Jenn Yang is the Director, Commodities, for Singapore Exchange. He has spent over 10 years in the Risk Management department, responsible for the development of analytics and enhancement of risk practices to safeguard the participants in its ecosystem. Since start of the year, he has transitioned to the Commodities Derivatives team, in charge of product development to deepen and widen the product offerings for the marketplace.

Gilberto Cardoso
Founder & CEO, Tarraco Commodities

Gilberto Cardoso is a visionary entrepreneur and strategist with over two decades of experience in the metals and mining sector. A passionate advocate for decarbonization and green steel, he is the Founder and CEO of Tarraco Commodities. Gilberto holds an MBA from IESE Business School, M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and B.Sc Metallurgical & Materials Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and multiple executive programs from Stanford, CEIBS, NUS, and INSEAD.

Amita Khurana
Group Chief – Raw Material Procurement, Tata Steel Limited

Amita Khurana is currently the ‘Group Chief- Raw Material Procurement’ of Tata Steel Limited. She is responsible for the entire raw material buy for all Tata Steel’s sites in India, Netherlands and UK.

Prior to this, she was Chief Procurement Officer of Tata Steel BSL Ltd- (formerly known as Bhushan Steel Limited)- a company that Tata Steel Ltd acquired in 2018 under insolvency proceedings.

In a career spanning 20 years, she has handled various assignments in the field of commercial & logistics including working on greenfield projects overseas, export of ferro alloys, procurement of bulk commodities etc.

She has done her Masters in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. She is also a qualified CFA and Advance diploma holder in shipping from ICS, London.

Sandeep Kalia
Head – Sales (Coking Coal), Tata International Limited

Sandeep Kalia is working as Head - Sales (Coking Coal) at Tata International Limited. He is a seasoned professional with more than 28 years of experience across mining, coal & steel sector. He has served various technical, commercial & research roles, creating value chain with effective leadership & commercial success. He is a mining engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. He has done Master of Marketing Management from Annamalai University, India.

Cian Cafferky
General Manager – Singapore, Xcoal

Cian Cafferky is the Singapore General Manager for Xcoal Energy & Resources. His role is to coordinate the sales and marketing of US and Australian coal in the Asian markets. He has been with Xcoal for 6 years originally focusing on chartering and logistics before switching over to coal marketing in 2019.

Cian studied at University College Dublin and Jiatong University, Shanghai before graduating in 2013 with a degree in Commerce and Chinese Studies. After graduating he went on to work for the Irish Trade Board in Singapore before Joining Xcoal in 2017.

S&P Global Speakers

Deb Ryan
Head of Emissions Insight, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Deb Ryan is the Head of Emissions Insight for S&P Global Commodity Insights, a division of S&P Global and the leading provider of information and benchmarks for the energy and commodities markets. 

Based in Denver, Deb leads the team which focuses on emissions analytics and insights across global commodity markets. 

Deb brings almost 20 years of emissions, carbon and upstream oil industry experience, having worked in different roles at S&P Global, oil and gas operators, and in consulting. 

Deb also joined the Colorado University at Denver faculty in 2022, teaching “Carbon Markets for Business” as part of the Global Energy Management Masters program.  

Deb is a Professional Engineer in Colorado and Texas with a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering, both from Curtin University in Australia, and an MBA from Penn State, US. Deb serves on the International Board of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and previously served as the Treasurer for the Women’s Energy Network Foundation.

Keith Tan
Regional Pricing Director – Metals – Asia, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Keith Tan is Associate Regional Pricing Director for Metals Asia at S&P Global Commodity Insights, having joined in 2007 after earlier stints at petrochemical market information provider ICIS and DaimlerChrylser. Initially covering the Asian petrochemical markets out of the company’s Singapore office, Keith joined the metals group in 2010 and was part of the team that built the benchmark Iron Ore Index. He relocated to Shanghai in 2015 to expand the team’s coverage of Chinese steel exports and pricing, and returned to Singapore in 2022 for the regional metals role. Keith graduated with first class honors from the National University of Singapore. 

Karen McBeth
Head of Metals Strategic Engagement, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Karen McBeth has more than 30 years of experience analyzing metals markets. As head of metals global engagement and intelligence for S&P Global Commodity Insights, she works in a cross-commodity group that leverages feedback from customers to drive content decisions for the metals group and enable connections between commodity markets. She joined S&P in 1990 and spent nine years reporting on metals news and markets, building out and overseeing price assessments for aluminum, magnesium and other light metals. From 1999-2011, she was global metals editorial director for the Platts group and its metals publications, spearheading a move into ferrous markets starting in 2007, launching the first daily iron ore assessments in 2008, daily coking coal in 2010 and daily alumina in 2010. Prior to joining S&P, McBeth was an editor for a magazine covering the grocery and consumer products industries. McBeth has a BA in Communications Studies and a BS in Marketing Management from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Bao Ying Ng
Director, Global Strategic Engagement & Intelligence, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Baoying Ng looks after strategic engagement and intelligence for global agriculture, metals, and shipping, and is also the APAC lead. Prior to this, she managed the global containers team. She also managed the EMEA petrochemicals team in London, and the Asia team in Singapore. Baoying has been with S&P Global Commodity Insights for close to 10 years and was a broadcast journalist before that. 

Paul Bartholomew
Lead Analyst – Metals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Paul has been covering global ferrous markets for 15 years since starting with Steel Business Briefing as China Editor, based in Shanghai.

He joined S&P Global Commodity Insights in 2011 and founded Steel Raw Materials Monthly and more recently Ferrous Markets Analytics. Based in Melbourne, Paul is responsible for steel, scrap, coking coal and iron ore forecasts and analysis.

Pranay Shukla
Director, Head of Dry Bulk Freight & Commodities Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Pranay Shukla is based in Singapore and works as the Director of Research and Analysis at S&P Global Commodity Insights. His responsibilities include leading the analysis of global bulk commodities markets, building global and regional supply and demand balances, and providing short to medium-term forecasts. He also assists with scenario analysis and supports Multiclient Studies.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Pranay worked as a senior trading analyst covering dry bulk commodities and freight at Mercuria Energy Trading, and as a consultant covering global LNG and LPG markets at Drewry Shipping Consultants.

Pulkit Agarwal
Head of India Content, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Pulkit Agarwal is Head of India Content at S&P Global Commodity Insights. He is responsible for developing and executing the content strategy for Commodity Insights in India, and ensuring that our benchmarks and insights are relevant, reliable, and respected by the industry and the government. He has extensive experience in commodity markets and benchmarks, and a deep knowledge of Platts methodologies. A part of the Asian content leadership team, he works closely with other business lines and divisions to deliver value to our customers and grow our presence in India. He joined S&P Global Commodity Insights in 2021 and has previously worked for a leading oil company in various trading and pricing roles. Pulkit is a Chartered Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce.

Rohan Somwanshi
Managing Editor, Global Agriculture & Asia Metals News, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Rohan Somwanshi heads up Global Agriculture and Asia Metals News at S&P Global Commodity Insights. He manages content teams across Asia, which oversee ferrous, nonferrous, grains, oilseed and biofuels news coverage. Before S&P Global, Rohan was digital media strategist at Microsoft’s MSN Money, and earlier covered global coal developments for SNL Energy. He graduated in commerce and finance, and his masters is in media and advertising.

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan
Associate Director, Principal Dry Bulk Freight Research Analyst, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is the Associate Director, Principal Dry Bulk Shipping Research Analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights and is based out of Singapore. Prior to his current role in Freight Analytics, he was Managing Editor for the Asia Pacific Dry Bulk markets looking into the spot dry bulk freight assessments. He has been with S&P Global Commodity Insights for ten years. Shriram also comes with a background in trading shipping derivatives with a dry bulk shipping company.

Vera Blei
Head of Established Benchmarks, S&P Global Commodity Insights

As Global Head of Established Benchmarks, Vera is responsible for Platts crude oil, refined products, LNG, generating fuels & electricity and metals price assessments and market reporting around the world. For over 20 years, Vera has worked in price reporting, news, marketing and business development roles across a large portfolio of commodity markets (crude oil, refined products, gas, LNG, coal, power, emissions, ferrous and non-ferrous metals) for organizations including Platts, Gas Strategies and NYMEX. Vera has worked as a freelance journalist in Germany, the UK and Russia.

Anshuman Bharati
Associate Director, S&P Global Ratings

Anshuman Bharati is an Associate Director in the Corporate Ratings team of S&P Global Ratings based in Singapore. He is responsible for a portfolio comprising metals & mining, chemicals and technology sectors in South and Southeast Asia region. Prior to joining S&P in 2022, Anshuman spent eight years with an India-based credit rating agency covering large corporates across multiple industries. Anshuman is a management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi. He also holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi.

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