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Russell Camp

Houston,TX

Summary

Energetic Trading Leader successful at motivating and building positive team dynamics to accomplish aggressive goals. Dedicated to open, communicative culture where employees feel empowered to contribute to company's success.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Trader

GCC Supply And Trading
12.2023 - Current

Development, strategy, and business leader of Proprietary Paper trading. Profitably execute commercial transactions across all relevant financial instruments. Responsible for book's trading, hedging, and risk-mitigation strategies. Establish effective knowledge systems to improve trading decisions.

Broker

Sage Refined Products
03.2023 - 12.2023
  • Establish clientele across gasoline and diesel physical and financial markets.
  • Develop relationships of trust to ensure a long-term business plan covering multiple markets across U.S. Gulf Coast and mid-continent physical and financial markets.
  • Set forth vision and coordination with CME to launch a new block futures account within my first two months of brokering USGC market.

Trader, Supervisor

Koch Supply & Trading
09.2020 - 03.2023
  • Set overall vision and provided project leadership for data analytics platform encompassing multiple commodities, trades, and predictive indicators. Effectively utilized existing internal personnel; data scientist, IT, Trading operations, etc. to create the largest valued data science program within the history of KS&T in one-year.

Vice President of Trading

U.S. Oil, A Division Of U.S. Venture
02.2017 - 07.2020
  • Responsible for leading trading team across entire portfolio value chain; Gasoline, Diesel fuels, Ethanol, technical trading, freight, & LPG's
  • Expanded portfolio of commodities traded into Agriculture, LPG's, & gasoline components
  • Set vision and established new framework for market analytics
  • Collaborated across multiple internal capabilities in leading trading to two of top three years in company history.

Manager

Gasoline Trading, Koch Supply & Trading
02.2016 - 01.2017
  • Accountable for trading performance across entire U.S. Gasoline & Components platform
  • Restructured gasoline storage exposure to re-position trading business for future success
  • Established and coordinated systematic approach to Warehousing and communicating proprietary market and performance metrics.

Manager

Renewables Trading, Koch Supply & Trading
08.2011 - 02.2016
  • Led integrated supply & trading team for ethanol trading and marketing
  • Spearheaded analytical Model to understand the netback-tiers for all the ethanol production in the United States
  • Created and implemented a trading system based upon risk adjusted returns and dynamic market conditions
  • Team achieved three of four highest annual returns for ethanol trading dating back to 1997.

Trader

Koch Supply & Trading
02.2006 - 08.2011
  • Profitably managed and traded paper and physical markets across the U.S. Gasoline, Components, & Ethanol markets
  • Achieved the 2nd highest risk adjusted returns within KS&T in 2009
  • Markets traded include; Midwest & Gulf Coast gasoline, Ethanol, Natural Gasoline, & Nymex/ICE futures.

Portfolio Manager

Flint Hills Resources
02.2002 - 02.2006
  • Directed the market exposure across all commodities downstream of crude oil
  • Collaborated extensively with trading, operations, refinery planning, and marketing
  • Upgraded profitability by over 100mm within a four year period.

Controller

Koch Supply & Trading
07.2000 - 02.2002
  • Responsible for all accounting aspects related to the balance sheet and income statements Pertaining to the international crude oil and heavy products trading
  • Initiated capital consumption measures that facilitated change in the commercial approach of our heavy products trading path-forward.

Senior Accountant & Accounting Manager

Flint Hills Resources
02.1997 - 07.2000
  • Key contributor in the construction and implementation of a home-grown trading and analysis system used to monitor and distinguish mark- to-market gains, as well as marketing and refining margins on a daily basis.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Saint Louis University
St Louis, MO
08.1996

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Missouri State University
Springfield, MO
05.1991

Skills

  • Team Building
  • Trading and Risk Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Development
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Project Management
  • Budgeting
  • Inventory oversight

Certification

Business Analytics - University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Business) - December 2020

Series 3 - National Commodities Futures Broker - March 2023

CPA - Certified Public Accountant (Missouri #17500, Inactive)

Timeline

Senior Trader

GCC Supply And Trading
12.2023 - Current

Broker

Sage Refined Products
03.2023 - 12.2023

Trader, Supervisor

Koch Supply & Trading
09.2020 - 03.2023

Vice President of Trading

U.S. Oil, A Division Of U.S. Venture
02.2017 - 07.2020

Manager

Gasoline Trading, Koch Supply & Trading
02.2016 - 01.2017

Manager

Renewables Trading, Koch Supply & Trading
08.2011 - 02.2016

Trader

Koch Supply & Trading
02.2006 - 08.2011

Portfolio Manager

Flint Hills Resources
02.2002 - 02.2006

Controller

Koch Supply & Trading
07.2000 - 02.2002

Senior Accountant & Accounting Manager

Flint Hills Resources
02.1997 - 07.2000

Master of Business Administration -

Saint Louis University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Missouri State University
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