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Chris Holmes was most recently Head of Gas Trading at JP Morgan and was involved in all aspects of the physical and derivative gas business from proprietary trading through to asset optimisation. Prior to this he held the position of Head of Gas Trading at RBS Sempra. Chris began trading at BP and has a wealth of experience in physical gas storage and transport optimisation as well as an excellent understanding of embedded options, physical LNG trading and derivative experience.

Damian has over 10 years experience in the gas and power industry working for ExxonMobil, Enron and BP in a variety of back and front office roles. During his time at BP, Damian was a Contract Manager for a large Power Station as well as the senior UK power trader, trading the prompt, curve and interconnector electricity markets, as well as the carbon emissions element of the clean spark spreads. Later moved on to trade the UK gas curve and finally the European gas curve covering France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands , Belgium and France.

Jacqueline Holmes has 15 years Gas Trading experience. Most recently she headed up the Long Term Origination team for Northern Europe at BP. She started trading for PowerGen then joined BP in 1999, trading Continental Europe. She established BP's European Trading book, moving on to set up the Short Term Origination team for Gas, Power & Emissions in 2007.

Liz Martin has over 15 years experience with BP. She has worked in a broad range of trading roles in oil, gas and LNG markets. She traded Heating Oil in Europe before switching commodities to trade natural gas in the US. She then set up a team to trade UK NBP gas v US Henry Hub gas and was book leader for the LNG financial team, managing the hedging of BP’s LNG Portfolio and speculatively trading global oil and gas.

Paul has spent 20 years of his career working in oil trading. He was regarded as an industry expert in the area of trading operations for crude oils in the North Sea and Middle East before progressing to a senior leadership position within BP’s international trading division. As Head of Supply Paul was directly responsible for the trading teams which were optimising the purchase and risk management of 75 million m3 p.a. of petroleum products. More recently Paul was the Executive Chairman of Smart Global Trading.

Stefan joined BP after graduating from Cambridge University. During his front-line trading career he traded product derivatives, and both paper and physical Crude Oil. Stefan then became Head of Fuel Oil Trading for Europe and the USA. In this Book Leader role Stefan grew the book significantly in both scope and profitability over 5 years. Stefan was also heavily involved in BP’s trader selection, training and mentoring.

Steve has over 20 years experience working in the oil and gas industry, within the back, mid and front office. As an Equity Crude and Gas trader at BP he helped build a complex portfolio of trading books based in Germany. Steve has extensive experience developing risk management reporting, trader exposure and profit and loss systems for various clients. He has been a key participant in the design and development of simulation based trader training programmes.