Bürgenstock 2007 in Montreux > Speakers
Clive Furness
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Clive is widely recognised as one of the World’s leading commodity specialists and is the founder of Contango Markets – a company that he has built into one of the world’s foremost independent commodity, derivatives and market technology consultancies with a ‘blue chip’, global customer base. In November 1999, he was a co-founder of Comdaq Ltd, where he was responsible for writing the functional specifications for, and launching, four of Comdaq’s fifteen markets. Between 1993 and 1999 Clive was a senior executive at LIFFE/London Commodity Exchange (LCE), where he held the posts of Director of Business Development (LCE), Director - Commodity Products, Market Development and Communications Director and Director – Account Management. Prior to this Clive was a successful coffee trader for 14 years – first as a floor trader with GNI and then running futures and physical books for the J.Aron Coffee division of Goldman Sachs International. Whilst at Goldman he was elected to the Board of the London Commodity Exchange, was chairman of the LCE options and coffee markets and was chairman of the coffee-grading panel. Clive is a regular speaker and presenter at conferences around the world on a variety of commodity and derivatives related issues.
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