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In this episode, member Commodity 101 shares his overarching career mantra. We cover how he broke

into a bulge bracket trading desk and energy and natural gas, while he jumped to a physical

trading commodity shop after two years,

his pivot to a $40 billion alternative investment fund, and why he then spent three years

at a nonprofit in the certification space, where he is now and what's in store next. Enjoy. Commodity 101.

Thanks so much for joining the Wallstredoises podcast.

Thanks for having you, Patrick.

It would be great if you could give the listeners just a quick summary of your background.

Sure.

So my background is essentially across different energy commodity markets, crude oil, natural gas, NGLs, natural gas liquids, power, coal, emissions, LNG, renewables, you name it,

as well coming from a physical and financial

background, experience at both large bulge bracket, commodities shops, as well as the top three

physical trading shop, as well as a very large investment management firm, more on the financial side for multi-acid

alternative investments.

And now most recently with a geospatial satellite radar technology company named Ursa that

were sort of leveraging a lot of cutting edge technology for sort macroeconomic and hence from micro oil and gas

insights on a global basis that were traditionally pretty opaque in these markets but now given

the technological advances we're kind of changing the game a bit here so rewining sounds like you

have a lot of experience going back to university, kind of what,

did you know this is kind of what you're interested in, doing more of the kind of going after

the trading type side of things, or kind of how did you fall into that?

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