Interview Corner - Newsletter
Facilitating The Energy Transition: Brady’s Approach – Interview with Chris Regan Managing Director of Brady Technologies
Published 1 October 2024Recently, I had a chance to discuss market changes related to the energy transition with Chris Regan, the Managing Director of Brady. I asked him few questions, some were about... continue reading
Life At A Commodities Focused Consulting Firm – An Interview with Mark Ferguson
Published 16 September 2024Hello Mark, before we begin, can we start with a quick intro from you please… Thanks Gary, and yes, I’m Mark Ferguson, Business and Partner Development at BBGC Services Ltd;... continue reading
Exchange-traded derivatives risk management – An Interview with Giuseppe the founder of Cumulus9
Published 25 June 2024ComTech Advisory: How do you see the evolution of energy & commodity financial markets and exchanges? Giuseppe: The energy and commodity markets are rapidly evolving towards greater digital integration and... continue reading
An Interview with the New VAKT CEO – Tasja Botha
Published 2 April 2024ComTech Advisory: Tell us about the reasoning behind VAKT and its business model as a sort of consortium of players in the industry? Tasja Botha: From a practical standpoint, this... continue reading
Towards Commodity Management in the cloud – An Interview with Saurabh Goyal, Founder and CEO, Phlo Systems
Published 31 January 2024ComTech Advisory: How would you describe Phlo Systems and its software solutions to our readers? Saurabh Goyal: Phlo Systems develops and deploys SaaS cloud and emerging technologies such as AI... continue reading
BBGC – Specializing in CTRM Implementations – An Interview with Amir Soufizadeh, Managing Director, BBGC
Published 21 September 2023ComTech Advisory: Tell us about BBGC – how it got started, your role in it and its objectives? Amir Soufizadeh: BBGC represents the next generation of commodity and risk management... continue reading
Volatility Drives Interest in Credit Solutions – An Interview with Ellen Stars, Practice Lead, Risk, Brady Technologies
Published 12 July 2023ComTech Advisory: How does the market for credit solutions look at the moment? Ellen Stars: Having a credit solution in place allows for cohesion and collaboration internally to enable greater... continue reading
Thoughts on Gen10 – An Interview with George Bradshaw
Published 6 April 2023ComTech Advisory: George is an industry veteran having worked for several vendors in the space, what’s compelling about Gen10 and how does it compare with others in the space? George... continue reading
A New Vendor is Born – An Interview with Tasja Botha Chief Executive Officer Quor
Published 7 March 2023ComTech Advisory: What has the sale/spin off of Brady Commodities achieved and as importantly, what does it facilitate in terms of moving your strategy forward? Tasja Botha: In 2022, the... continue reading
Tradesparent Rebrands to RadarRadar and Hones Its mission
Published 16 February 2023As Tradesparent Rebrands as RadarRadar, we talked with Norbert Verhagen about the company, its rebranding and its objectives. ComTech Advisory: What is RadarRadar, how did it get started, and what... continue reading
Credit Risk in Commodity Markets – An Interview with Brady Technology’s Ian Tobin
Published 24 January 2023ComTech Advisory: How do you see the market for credit solutions in commodities right now and what is driving that? Ian Tobin: We are seeing a lot more activity in... continue reading
Amphora’s David Glasspool talks about its forthcoming new CTRM for concentrates – Alchemy
Published 5 December 2022Amphora has been working a new CTRM solution for concentrates called Alchemy. ComTech asked Sales Director David Glasspool at Amphora about this initiative as it isn’t often an existing software... continue reading
Renewable energy and risk management
Published 17 June 2022An interview with Luca Pedretti – COO, Co-Founder, Pexapark ComTech Advisory: How did Pexapark start? Luca Pedretti: Together with Michi, we had a vision to address the growing needs of... continue reading
New Tools for Managing Freight and Shipping Risk
Published 5 April 2022An interview with Advanced Freight Trading Leadership ComTech Advisory: Tell us a little about your new venture and its objectives? Advanced Freight Trading: We are a diverse and experienced team... continue reading
Amphora Reborn? – An interview with Amphora Leadership
Published 5 October 2021ComTech talks to Amphora leadership about the vendor’s re-emergence, future plans and positioning. ComTech Advisory: What has been the key to turning Amphora around under your leadership? Chris Mudry: Listening... continue reading
Gen10 – Thinking Big? – An Interview with Richard Williamson, CEO Gen10
Published 23 September 2021We talk to Gen10 CEO, Richard Williamson, about how it has managed to be so active in the industry and as to whether there is any ‘secret sauce’… (If you... continue reading
Talking UK Power with David Holt
Published 5 July 2021An Interview with David Holt, CEO of Enegen ComTech Advisory: In the recent past, it has been made easier to bring smaller generation assets to the table. Can you describe... continue reading
Quantifi Target Broader Markets
Published 23 June 2021An Interview with Avadhut Naik, Head of Solutions, Quantifi ComTech Advisory: Tell us a little about Quantifi, its background, focus and presence in the commodities asset class? Avadhut Naik: Founded... continue reading
Getting Value from Your Data
Published 12 May 2021An Interview with Alexander Regnault, President North America, Tradesparent ComTech Advisory: Data management is key to unlocking the ability to extract knowledge for that data. What has Tradesparent developed in... continue reading
The Future of Conferences and Tradeshows
Published 9 April 2021An Interview with Ben Hillary, Managing Director, Commodities People In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, tradeshows and conferences have been canceled, postponed and delayed. Commodities People, a major player... continue reading
Can CTRM Ever be Delivered in a Lower Cost to Serve Model?
Published 17 February 2021An Interview with Simon Piercy, Founder and Managing Director of CTRM Cubed ComTech Advisory: What is your vision for CTRM Cubed and specifically, what is your target market? Simon Piercy:... continue reading
Enegen Sees Opportunity in Distributed Power
Published 25 January 2021An Interview with Chris Fisher, Business Development Manager, Enegen Power Systems Last year Dunstan Thomas Energy became Enegen. We talked to Chris Fisher at Enegen to find out what the... continue reading
EnergyOne’s enFlow as an energy-focused RPA tool
Published 15 January 2021A couple of years ago or so, EnergyOne alerted ComTech to a new software product it had developed. That product, now branded as enFlow, was revealed as an interesting RPA-type... continue reading
Enverus – Delivering New Data Analytics and Forward Curve Capabilities
Published 2 December 2020ComTech recently caught-up with Wendi Orlando, VP of Product Management, Trading & Risk at Enverus to get an update on their recent product developments and strategies. ComTech Advisory: Last time... continue reading
Data and Data Management
Published 2 November 2020An Interview with Richard Quigley, Co-Founder & CEO at Ventriks ComTech Advisory: You have recently re-emerged with your own data management approach with Ventriks, what trends have you seen emerge... continue reading
Trends in European Power
Published 15 June 2020An interview with Scott Hestenes, Head of Energy Sales, Brady plc ComTech Advisory: European energy markets are in an almost constant state of flux due to the energy transition, increased... continue reading
Lockdown Business Continuity Using MarketView
Published 19 May 2020An interview with Sven Schoerner, Product Manager of Enverus ComTech Advisory: Tell us about the MarketView product. What is it? Sven Schoerner: MarketView is our flagship product in Enverus Trading... continue reading
Trading as a Service in intraday power markets
Published 7 April 2020An interview with Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO and Co-founder of enspired ComTech Advisory: enspired is a relatively new player on the market. Can you give us a quick overview of the... continue reading
Self-service CTRM has arrived
Published 5 March 2020Interview with Simon Piercy, Founder and Managing Director of CTRM Cubed Simon Piercy, CEO of CTRMCubed, tells us about the launch of TradeCube, a self-service CTRM solution delivered as a... continue reading
Enuit Gets Focused on Risk Analytics
Published 28 February 2020An Interview with Dr. Hui He, Managing Director of Analytics, Enuit Risk analytics have long been a bit of a weakness in many E/CTRM platforms and solutions. Recently, ComTech read... continue reading
MTX Commodities Targets European Growth
Published 5 November 2019An Interview with Melis Aksari, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, MTX Commodities ComTech Advisory: How did MTX get its start? Melis Aksari: MTX was created as a division of Matriks... continue reading
Igloo rebrands following Strategic Investment – an Interview with Tim Harrison of Igloo
Published 9 October 2019ComTech Advisory: ComTech understands that Igloo is rebranding itself? What drove that decision and why now? Tim Harrison: There are really three reasons. First, we have had almost no marketing... continue reading
IMO2020 – What’s the Impact?
Published 27 June 2019New IMO2020 regulations coming into force have got the industry’s attention. What is this regulation? What will it mean and how will it impact us? We asked Alok Sharma of... continue reading
Enuit is Expanding Their Global Reach
Published 6 June 2019An Interview with Ken Han, CEO of ENUIT With the news that Enuit has established a London office to target European CTRM opportunities, ComTech reached out to talk with Enuit... continue reading
Introducing Brady’s New CEO – Carmen Carey
Published 26 April 2019An Interview with Carmen Carey, CEO of Brady PLC Brady PLC recently appointed a new CEO in Ms. Carmen Carey who had served as a non-exec director for the company.... continue reading
Contigo as an EnergyOne Company
Published 31 January 2019An Interview with Simon Wheeler, Contigo Following EnergyOne’s acquisition of UK-based Contigo, a supplier of ETRM solutions to the western European gas and power markets, ComTech caught up with Mr.... continue reading
Disruptive and Enabling Technologies in Commodities
Published 9 January 2019Interview with Matt Dolton CEO and Co-founder at Kynetix ComTech Advisory: We recently issued our disruptive technologies research report in which we discussed the massive changes taking place in the... continue reading
Regulatory Compliance TRADESPARENT
Published 17 September 2018An interview with Mr. Alexander Regnault, Director Operations, TRADESPARENT ComTech Advisory: TRADESPARENT now offers a variety of different solutions from risk management to regulatory compliance using the same approach and... continue reading
ETRM and PPAs – The View from Down Under
Published 7 August 2018An interview with Mr. Shaun Ankers, CEO, Energy One ComTech Advisory: Can you give us an update on Energy One? What key initiatives are you involved in? Shaun Ankers: Energy... continue reading
FIS Looks to Leverage Products into Energy & Commodities
Published 26 June 2018ComTech Advisory: FIS Energy & Commodities is just a part of a larger group of products and business units offering trading and risk products that have some commodity capabilities. Can... continue reading
Brady’s Product Strategy and Direction – Interview with Ms. Libby Koehn, Chief Product Office, Brady PLC
Published 3 April 2018Ms. Libby Koehn joined Brady PLC recently as Chief Product Officer. We asked her about Brady’s strategy, products and views on market developments. ComTech Advisory: What is the strategy at... continue reading
An Interview with Rich Jefferson, Commodities COO at Beacon
Published 27 March 2018Comtech recently had the opportunity to visit with Mr. Rich Jefferson, Commodities COO at Beacon to get his thoughts about Beacon Growing Rapidly and Finding Fertile Ground in Commodity Trading... continue reading
FIS Gear Up to Launch Multiple Product Strategy into Commodities
Published 20 February 2018Commodity Technology Advisory asks Dr. Markus Seiser, COO, FIS Energy, about FIS’s strategy and plans for Energy & Commodities ComTech Advisory: FIS now markets its solutions for energy and commodities... continue reading
Interview with Metafused
Published 1 February 2018ComTech Advisory: What is Metafused and what does it offer? Madhuban Kumar: Metafused’s platform provides automated AI predictions for financial services and increases their efficiencies by 20%. Its platform comprises... continue reading
Capco’s Energy Practice post-FIS – A Conversation with the Leadership Team
Published 4 December 2017FIS announced their intention to spin-off the company’s Capco consulting business in May of this year. With the transaction completed in August, we recently visited with leadership team of Capco’s... continue reading
Commodity Markets – A Headhunter’s View
Published 8 November 2017ComTechAdvisory: Given all of the turmoil in commodity markets this last year or so, how has the job market been impacted? James Richmond: The markets have been slow in the... continue reading
Trends in Technology
Published 12 July 2017ComTechAdvisory: What is Contigo seeing in terms of uptake of the ETRM in cloud and what are the benefits of such an approach? Adrian Bullock: We are seeing strong interest... continue reading
Developments in CEE – An Interview with David Kučera
Published 28 June 2017An Interview with David Kučera, General Secretary of the Prague Energy Exchange („PXE“) ComTechAdvisory: Tell us a little about PXE – its history and objectives David Kučera: PXE was established... continue reading
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Published 27 April 2017An Interview with Cyrus Dadachanji, Partner, Energy Trading and Risk Management at Infosys Consulting ComTechAdvisory: Please tell us a little about Infosys Consulting and the team that you are building?... continue reading
New Business Models and Consumer Focused Digital Transformations
Published 28 March 2017ComTech visits with Amir Soufizadeh, Head of Commodities & Utilities Practice at BJSS. Founded in 1993, BJSS operates across the UK and USA, providing consultancy and services for the delivery... continue reading
Kynetix explains Distributed Ledger Technologies and its future
Published 21 March 2017ComTechAdvisory: What is Kynetix’ interest in Blockchain technologies? Scott Riley: There are three primary drivers to Kynetix’s interest in DLT: 1. Our mission at Kynetix is to bring total trust... continue reading
An Interview with Michael Kirch CCO of Beacon
Published 19 January 2017ComTechAdvisory: What is the Beacon platform and what was the impetus for developing it? Dr. Michael Kirch: Mark Higgins and Kirat Singh founded Beacon in 2014 to create a modern... continue reading
Commodity Auctions and Exchanges
Published 10 October 2016Interview with Phil Bird Perfect Channel ComTechAdvisory: Can you tell us a little about Perfect Channel? How did it get started and what are its objectives? Phil Bird: I suspect,... continue reading
The Importance of Modern Technology to Minimise Risk in Energy Trading
Published 1 July 2016We recently asked Adrian Bullock, CEO at Contigo, what he was seeing in terms of ETRM software in Europe. His take was that having a modern solution on a modern... continue reading
ETRM – A Consultant’s View
Published 25 April 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: With the current macroeconomic environment in the commodities sector, what sorts of trends are you seeing there and how has that changed?. David Edwards: There are a... continue reading
OpenLink’s Henry Bonner on the Ags & Softs Market
Published 11 April 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: What do you see as the issues driving procurement in ags and softs right now? Henry Bonner: As many companies watch growth in sales, general, and administrative... continue reading
Looking for the ‘Apple’ Moment in Energy
Published 1 April 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: For those not familiar with Utilidex, can you give us a flavor for the company? How it got started and perhaps a history so far? Richard Brys:... continue reading
Contract Management in Commodities
Published 9 March 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: Firstly, can you provide some background on Chinsay and its track record and area of focus please? Colin Hayward: Chinsay has a 12 year track record of... continue reading
Kynetix – Commodity Exchange software supplier
Published 9 February 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: Can you give us a little background on Kynetix and what the company does? Guillaume Kendall: Kynetix was founded in the mid-90s to develop software solutions within... continue reading
New Technology For CTRM Solutions
Published 14 January 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: AGIBLOCKS is based on new technology and cloud-based. Can you describe that technology and what the advantages of that technology model are? Jan van den Brom: AGIBLOCKS is based... continue reading
The Journey To Big Data
Published 7 January 2016Commodity Technology Advisory: What are the latest developments at DataGenic? Richard Quigley: As you know, providing enabling technology for our clients is at the core of what we do. However,... continue reading
Stick or Twist
Published 5 January 2016In the weeks prior to the holidays, Brady PLC issued an advisory to the market as a public company, regarding revenue expectations. I had a call with CEO, Gavin Lavelle... continue reading
An Interview with Mr. Vincent van Os, Marketing & Sales Director at TRADESPARENT
Published 16 October 2015Commodity Technology Advisory: It has been some time now since TRADESPARENT was launched. Where are you with the product and adoption of the product in the industry? TRADESPARENT – Vincent... continue reading
An Interview with Mr. Tim Rogers, Head of Sales and Business Development at Trayport Contigo
Published 5 October 2015Commodity Technology Advisory: The European power and gas market seems to be going through some significant changes in terms of generation mix and the retail model. What are you seeing... continue reading
An Interview with Mr. Arnt Sollie, VP, Smart Energy with Powel AS
Published 24 July 2015In 2013, Swiss vendor, Delta Energy, was acquired by Powel AS. Powel wasn’t widely known in traditional trading and/or logistics software markets at that time, but had a track record... continue reading
An Interview with Mr. Gavin Lavelle, CEO of Brady PLC
Published 27 May 2015Brady PLC reported its 2014 results recently. The company posted revenue and profitability growth. We asked CEO, Mr. Gavin Lavelle about how Brady is faring, what the future might hold... continue reading
An Interview with Dr. Markus Seiser, Global Head of Services and Managing Director of SunGard Energy
Published 19 May 2015Commodity Technology advisory recently visited Dr. Markus Seiser in Vienna to find out more about SunGard Energy’s acquisition of Energeya and also about the company’s European strategy. Despite writing a... continue reading
New MD of the IRM Division of OpenLink discusses optimization and trading with ComTech
Published 20 April 2015A couple of months ago, we met up with Mr. Roland Jones at E-World in Essen. He had recently been appointed MD of the Vienna-based IRM Division of OpenLink. We... continue reading
An Interview with Richard Williamson, CEO, G10
Published 13 April 2015Recently, we asked Richard Williamson, CEO of G10 to answer a few questions about his company, the market and CTRM. Given Mr. Williamson’s status of an long-time veteran of the... continue reading
An Interview with Richard Quigley, CEO of DataGenic
Published 2 March 2015A few months ago, you talked about the new product Genic DataiQ in a video interview that we did with you, can you tell us a bit more about the... continue reading
An Interview with Bart Kroon, CEO of AGIBOO
Published 11 December 2014Commodity Technology Advisory has been following new entrant AGIBOO more or less from its inception. The company has now developed its Agiblocks product and is moving from a focus on... continue reading
Peter Armstrong, Triple Point’s former CEO, is joining Eka’s Board of Directors – A ComTech Interview
Published 30 July 2014Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) was recently informed that Peter Armstrong, founder and former CEO of Triple Point Technology, has joined Eka’s Board of Directors. In light of this news, Patrick... continue reading