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Team

Built by people who have priced and financed hard assets

The firm pairs physical trading execution with capital markets structuring, under a compliance posture built for regulated counterparties.

Leadership

Founder

Gary LaDrido

Founder and Vice Chairman. More than twenty five years in global capital markets with over fifteen billion dollars closed across energy, infrastructure and real assets, including project and structured financings on Morgan Stanley’s Clean Energy team. Founder of Renewable Advisors and of Sustainable Capital Markets, which advise and raise capital across the energy transition.

Founder

Ben Malka

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. A fashion industry leader who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halston, where he helped revitalize the iconic apparel brand, after a long tenure as president of BCBGMaxAzria Group. Founder of Agernomics, the non food energy crop feedstock business behind the low carbon corridor we trade.

Founder

Bryan Timm

President and Chief Financial Officer. A fashion and retail executive across operations, corporate strategy and technology integration, with senior roles at Guess? Inc. and BCBGMaxAzria and leadership positions at Warnaco Swimwear Group (Speedo), Halston and MadaLuxe Group. Founder of Agernomics.

The Desk

How We Are Organized

Trading, risk and logistics sit on one desk rather than in separate reporting lines, so a cargo, its hedge, its financing and its routing are managed by the same people.

Operational entities sit in tier one trade hubs, with special purpose vehicles in the resource jurisdictions where cargo originates.

The desk

Start with the people who run the book

Counterparty conversations start with the desk that will execute the trade, price the hedge and arrange the financing.

Talk to the desk

Who owns what

Each function owns a decision the cargo depends on.

Trading

Physical Trading and Operations

Owns book execution, chartering, storage leases and delivery logistics from fixture through discharge.

Technology

Technology and AI

Builds the spatial logistics models, the telemetry pipelines and the execution tooling the desk trades on.

Logistics

Supply Chain and Logistics

Runs vessel chartering, port agents, rail logistics and terminal operations across the corridors we clear.

Risk

Risk and Compliance

Sets position limits and credit exposure, and carries marine insurance and regulatory compliance.