Fifteen years. Seven countries.
Twenty commodities.

The Commodity Merchant is a senior physical commodity trader with over fifteen years of experience across international trading desks, currently managing a multi-billion dollar physical and derivatives book spanning base and precious metals.

The portfolio today covers more than twenty physical commodities actively bought, sold, shipped, and hedged across four continents. Material originated from major producing regions across Europe, Africa, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Americas — and delivered into smelter, refiner, and end-user networks spanning East Asia, the Middle East, and the Western markets.

A career built across seven countries. The first chapter in London, on the commodity finance side of a major UK bank — learning how deals are structured, financed, and risk-managed. The second in Hong Kong, on the trading desk of a major Asian merchant, moving from finance into origination and execution of physical base metals across Asia-Pacific flows.

The third chapter built across the Middle East and Southern Africa over the past seven years — running specialist metals trading activity for a private commodity house, building teams, and taking P&L responsibility for a multi-billion dollar book.

Day to day, the job covers the full lifecycle of physical trade: origination, term contract structuring, trade finance and letter of credit execution, freight and logistics management, derivatives hedging, counterparty and country risk, and the compliance frameworks that govern international commodity flows.

The metals in your phone, your car, your building, your power grid — someone traded them. This is what that looks like from the inside.