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A Team of Seasoned Experts MICHAEL, OVERLANDER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER) Mr Overlander has been actively involved in commodities for over 40 years, having begun his career on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in 1971. He has worked for the Sucden Group since 1973. In 1984, Mr Overlander was appointed to the board of Sucden Financial. He has been responsible for helping the company expand its activities from being a single commodity house to a fully comprehensive brokerage firm with an extensive international client base. Mr Overlander was chairman of the London Sugar Market for four years and director of the former London Commodity Exchange (LCE) and London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE). He was also a long-serving director of the LME until the exchange was sold to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) in 2012. He is a current member of the LME User Committee. JEREMY GOLDWYN (NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR) Mr Goldwyn has over 25 years’ experience of the commodities and metals industry in both futures and physicals. He first joined Sucden Financial in 2004, having previously headed up Scotia Mocatta’s base metals unit and then establishing his own consulting business. During his time with Sucden Financial, he was initially based at the firm’s headquarters in the City of London, as global head of Industrial Commodities and took overall responsibility for the firm’s corporate metals and energy brokerage business. He has been instrumental in the company’s expansion in the Asia Pacific Region, with a specific focus on China. Mr Goldwyn joined Sucden Financial’s Board of Directors in 2012. PAUL GRAHAM (HEAD OF INDUSTRIAL COMMODITIES) Mr Graham is head of the Industrial Commodities Desk at Sucden Financial Ltd, having joined the company in 2005. He has worked in the commodities industry since 1982 and started his career with Scotia Mocatta spanning 19 years, the majority of which was spent on the LME floor, both trading and generating institutional and trade business. Mr Graham has marketed successfully at numerous conferences around the globe, building up an impressive base of contacts within the business. He has a wealth of experience in the LME industry (having worked also for Refco and SG); in particular in proprietary trading and facilitating client business. He has witnessed first-hand the introduction of screen-based trading platforms and the development and creation of new contracts, and has experienced the continual evolution within the commodities arena. LUCY WAINMAN (COMMODITY BROKER) Mrs Wainman started her commodity career at LME ring member AMT in 2002, servicing clients around the 46
Michael Overlander
Jeremy Goldwyn
Paul Graham
Steve Hardcastle
Lucy Waiman
globe with a special focus on the Chinese market. She joined Sucden Financial in 2006, strengthening the Industrial team to expand its derivative business in China. At Sucden her career has flourished, spending time on numerous marketing trips around Asia building up an impressive portfolio of clients from manufacturing, physical trading, financial, and investment background, trading commodity and financial derivatives on a wide range of global exchanges. She is the core centre of our successful London-based Chinese team. STEVE HARDCASTLE (HEAD OF CLIENT SERVICES) Mr Hardcastle was educated at Newcastle University in England and began his career at Noranda Mines in 1970. Previously at AMT (LME brokers), in 2006 he joined Sucden Financial’s Industrial Commodities team, as head of Client Services. Mr Hardcastle has traded base and precious metals for over forty years and he speaks regularly with the company’s clients ranging from producers to refiners to traders, sells services to new clients, and arranges the commercial side of account opening and general client liaison. He is a regular market commentator on base and precious metals. GEOFFREY ISON (HEAD OF LME) Mr Ison has over 25 years’ experience in the commodities business, starting on the LME as a market clerk with AMT in the summer of 1985. He CFI.co | Capital Finance International
Geoffrey Ison
passed his dealing exam when he was only 21 and has traded actively since in the ring specialising mostly in copper and aluminium. He worked at Metdist for 15 years, and for eight of those years was head of all LME operations. Mr Ison joined Sucden in 2009 as head of the LME department and currently represents Sucden Financial on both the Ring Dealers and Trading Committee on the LME. i