Scott Casella

● Developed and manage relationships with proprietary traders, hedge funds, energy companies, and financial institutions in the OTC market

● Hired and managed two employees to broker natural gas

● Worked with the Intercontinental exchange (ICE) and CME for trade reconciliation and trade breaks

● Responsible for day-to-day accounting and back-office operations

● Managed relationship with our Compliance and IT consultants to meet expectations required by the NFA

● Created operation manuals with compliance for cyber security, anti-money laundering, and ethics policy

● Business plan creation consisting of NFA registration, leasing space, purchasing of trade input software, communications system, and market data from CME and ICE to price trade structures

● Relationship manager across multiple institutions including, proprietary traders, hedge funds in the OTC market

● Leveraged relationships to gain access and referrals within each client firm

● Increased customer brokerage volume within the firm

● Expanded cross selling with internal brokers

● Increased customer base each year 10-15%

● Introduced and developed cross marketing between internal commodity desks within the firm

● Point person to facilitate execution of natural gas trading from cross marketing efforts

● Expanded customer base to meet bi- annual goals

● Consistently exceeded monthly brokerage goals by 200-350%