Recruiting

Database: 9,000 commodities professionals, including senior management, sales and origination, trading -- physical/paper, OTC/Exchange --, structuring, research, risk management, brokerage, mid/back office/ Includes rosters at Wall Street and universal banks, supplemented by personnel at hedge and private equity funds, utilities, agribusiness, metals/mining, oil majors, merchant trading houses. Constantly expanded and refreshed.

Personal contacts: Senior management at Wall Street, universal banks, hedge funds, merchant firms as well as desk heads, business leaders, experienced and junior personnel. Contacts at refiners, upstream oil and gas majors as well as major agribusiness firms, metals/mining.  

Strategic focus: Competitive commodities market knowledge enables Commodity Talent LLC to assist client initiatives by bringing available talent, including the formation and expansion of teams, to agile firms seeking first-mover advantages or bolt-on capacity. 

Individual attention: Clients and candidates receive individual attention throughout the search process from recruiting professionals knowledgeable about commodities at financial service firms. 

Consulting

Commodity Talent LLC provides both recruiting, human capital consulting and business services. We are often approached by professionals seeking either a platform or financial backing to build a business.

Examples:

• A minor metals trader who is retiring at age 75 and would hand over the reins to the right group or individual.
• An ethanol trader with a merchant view of the market including acquiring assets at 25 cents on the dollar.
• An ethanol trader seeking backing to establish an international trading business.
• A truck-mounted LNG plant business able to acquire stranded gas cheaply at the well-head.
• A waste-to-energy start-up seeking Series B funding and, later, debt project finance.
• An investor in US upstream oil, gas and coal producing properties with target minimum return of 20% pa.
• A multi-strat commodity fund headed by a well-known trader. Commodity Talent LLC is frequently approached by traders and business development
• Traders with exceptional results on smallish books seeking investments.

Thought Leadership

With industry expertise, we provide clients and candidates a wealth of resources in their path to the perfect match.

For more information read our white papers:
General Tips For Candidates

How to Prepare for the Interview

Advice for Senior & Junior Candidates

Additionally we organize events and calendars relevant for industry wide issues. If you would like to collaborate with us on an industry event - please get in touch!

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Top Image by Tom Brewster Photography
Middle image of Stock Exchange by David Foster.
Right image of "Solar System" by Kevin Dooley