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 Mr DAVE ERNSBERGER
Global Editorial Director of Oil
Platts
Dave Ernsberger is Platts' Global Editorial Director of Oil. Based in London since 2010, he is responsible for managing Platts' worldwide editorial coverage of crude oil and oil products. Prior to this, Dave was Senior Editorial Director for Asia, managing Platts' editorial and analytical groups in Singapore, Australia, the Philippines, and China from 2004 until 2009. Dave has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and politics from Warwick University, England, and a master's degree in international relations from Southampton University, England. Dave also speaks Spanish
 MR SERGEY CHAPLYGIN
Chief Executive Officer
LITASCO SA
Switzerland
Keynote Address: OIL AND POLITICS: A VIEW FROM A RUSSIAN OIL COMPANY'S PERSPECTIVE
Sergey Chaplygin is the CEO of LITASCO SA (LUKOIL International Trading and Supply Company) incorporated in Switzerland and the exclusive international marketing and trading company of the LUKOIL Group.
Sergey Chaplygin was born on October 7th, 1970, in Murmansk, Russia. He is a Russian citizen.
In his younger years he joined the Russian Naval Engineering Academy; he later graduated from Moscow State Mining University, as a qualified economist and continued his education at London Business School, Senior Executive Programme.
He began his career working in financial services dealing in commercial projects and investments in the Baltic countries and the Russian federation. As the Commercial Director, he later joined an Estonian-based high-technology oil products transportation terminal which handled loading and storage of light products oil chemicals and liquid gas.
He then relocated to Moscow and joined “OTEKO-United Transport – Forwarding Company”, a market leader in the transportation of crude oil and oil products within Russia and the FSU as First Deputy Director General.
In 2005 OAO LUKOIL invited Sergey Chaplygin to head the division of supply and transport logistics and appointed him as Chairman of the Supervisory Board for “ZAO LUKOIL-Trans” as well as Chairman of the board of Vysotsk oil terminal. He was responsible for the consolidation and optimization of transportation assets within the LUKOIL Group such as oil terminals, pipelines and rail transport.
In 2007, he became the First Deputy of Vice President Valery Subbotin and headed the main division of sales and supply at OAO LUKOIL. He also became a Member of the Management Committee for “OAO LUKOIL-Trans” and was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors for LITASCO SA.
He has been in charge of trading and supply of LUKOIL oil and petrochemicals products, gas, LNG and LPG as well as the transportation & logistics of the crude oil and products. He also coordinated the planning of supply solutions for LUKOIL system refineries.
In February 2010, Sergey Chaplygin was promoted to the position of CEO of the LITASCO Group. http://www.litasco.com
 MR VALERY GOLOVUSHKIN
Chief Executive Officer
SOCAR Trading SA
Switzerland
V.P. Golovushkin is the CEO of SOCAR Trading in Geneva. SOCAR is the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. Previously, Mr. Golovushkin held several senior positions at Lukoil and Soyuznefte-export including CEO and Chairman of the Lukoil International Trading and Supply Company (LITASCO) and Vice-President of the Lukoil Group.
 MR MORGAN DOWNEY
Global Head of Commodities
Bloomberg L.P.
United States of America
Presentation Title: ASIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE MARKETS: STATUS AND TRENDS
Morgan Downey heads commodities for Bloomberg. Prior to his current role, Morgan ran commodity trading desks for Citibank, Bank of America and Standard Chartered Bank in New York, Sydney, London and Singapore. Morgan is author of the bestselling book Oil 101.
 MR RICHARD GORRY
Director
JBC Asia Pte Ltd
Singapore
Presentation Title: GEOPOLITICAL RISK - IS THE GENIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE?
Richard Gorry is a Director of JBC Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore, part of the JBC Group. JBC has been providing consulting, research, training and software solutions to the world’s largest energy companies for over 20 years. Richard is an experienced analyst and has an extensive knowledge of energy markets, which has been gained from years of supporting national and international oil and gas companies on upstream and downstream projects. He was the former editor and senior consultant at JBC Energy and continues to provide his expert analysis in a wide range of energy market reports. Richard is also a specialist in risk management with a particular focus on oil trading. He is a graduate of Thames Valley University, London, and the Dublin Institute of Technology.
 MS LIAO NA
Editorial Director
C1 Energy Ltd
China
Presentation Title: THE DRAGON’S JOURNEY IN THE GLOBAL STAGFLATION AND CLIMATE CALAMITY
Liao Na is currently an Editorial Director at C1 Energy, which established in 2000 and is the first and leading independent energy intelligent company in China. Ms. Liao has over 8 years analysis experience in oil & gas market, covering crude/refinery, distillate, fuel oil, LPG & LNG, lubricant, etc. Ms. Liao is a lead and important participator in many survey projects, including refining industry, storage, demand & supply forecast, SPR, etc. Additionally, Ms. Liao is invited by many oil & gas conferences as speaker with topics about China's oil demand and supply forecast or some specific market introduction.
 PROF TOM JAMES
Chairman
Navitas Resources
Singapore
Professor Tom James has built up 20 years of practical expertise in the Energy, Emissions and International Commodity markets. His broad experience covers investment and trading with a particular focus on Asian, Central Asian, and Middle East Markets. His career has spanned the complete value and business process chain and through this he has built up a holistic understanding of the key elements of investment, trading and risk management decision making. In 2003 he published his first book offering practical guidance to corporate managers and new traders in the energy and commodity sector and since then has published three more books and contributed to two others, including Energy Markets and Energy & Emissions Markets. Since 2006 he has held the Chair Professorship for LNG business at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, and in November 2008 for his contribution to written knowledge in the Energy Trading field was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor. In October 2009 he started co-operation with the Singapore Management University’ International Trading Institute (SMU ITI) as a visiting Executive Faculty member and as a Research Fellow.
Co-Speaker:
MS FRANCESCA ZERENGHI - JAMES
Chief Executive Officer
Navitas Resources
Singapore
 MR JEREMY WILCOX
Managing Director
Energy Partnership
Thailand
Jeremy Wilcox is an advisor and commentator on the global energy and climate markets. He commenced his career in the oil industry where he held various positions within the strategic, economic and market planning departments. After pursuing a career in publishing, which included being launch editor of Energy Risk, and a brief spell brokering oil, gas and electricity, Jeremy developed his own business - the Energy Partnership, an independent advisory and commentary business specialising in emerging energy commodity markets. Jeremy has authored and co-authored numerous reports, papers and books, he regularly participates in seminars and workshops, and he has presented at most of the world's major energy and climate conferences.
 JIM NICHOLSON
Vice President Asia
Argus Media Ltd
22 Malacca Street, #08-02
Royal Brothers Building
Singapore 048980
Presentation Title: ASIA’S EVOLVING CRUDE BENCHMARKS
Jim Nicholson joined Argus in March 2004, having spent most of his career specialising in publishing and energy market price discovery. He is responsible for all Asian business development and editorial activity at Argus, based out of the company’s Singapore office. He previously worked in the London headquarters as Global Business Development Manager, responsible for developing Argus’ coverage and use in contracts particularly for coal, natural gas, electricity and emissions markets. In that role he has been responsible for the launch of Argus Global LNG, Argus Biomass and Argus Freight amongst other services, as well as developing pre-existing products. Before Argus, he held a variety of senior positions within Platts, the energy information business of McGraw Hill Inc, and has worked in Singapore and Washington DC. Jim began his career as a magazine journalist with Reed Business Publishing and holds an MA from Oxford University in Modern Languages.
 MR RODRIGO FAVELA
Executive Director for Refining, Planning and Evaluation
Hart Energy
United States of America
Presentation Title: HEAVY CRUDE OIL OUTLOOK: VALUE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CHALLENGING WORLD
Rodrigo Favela is Director for Refining, Planning and Evaluation. He holds a chemical engineer degree from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master’s degree on Process and Systems Design from Imperial College, London. He has expertise on strategic planning, investment, operations and environmental solutions for the industry and energy sectors. He has written articles and given conferences on these subjects, and participated as co-author of the book Air quality in the Mexico Megacity an integrated assessment, Luisa T. Molina and Mario Molina, 2002. He worked for chemical companies, as a environmental consultant for Mexican firms and 15 years for Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) assuming different responsibilities in international trade, strategic and tactic planning, optimization, performance and benchmarking valuations, supply chain operations, project development and investment management. For the last 3 years he served as Planning Director for Pemex Refining.
 MR. LAURENCE M. HICKEY, FRM
Director
Sapient Global Markets
United Kingdom
Presentation Title: PROFILE OF A ROGUE TRADER
Larry Hickey has 19 years of experience as a trader, risk manager, and implementer of risk systems in the energy and banking industries. He is currently implementing Endur V10 and cMotion for oil in Austria. In 2010, he brought the world’s first client live on cMotion for coal after a two year development and implementation process. Prior to that, he was responsible for the development and delivery of OpenLink’s gas scheduling functionality for Europe. Larry was a VP with Sungard Energy Systems, where he led both the ZaiNet and ACES implementation teams. He has implemented oil, power, gas, LNG, coal, freight and water. Larry started out as a trader. In 1995, he originated and ran Ireland’s first foreign exchange option business for AIB. In 1999, he established and ran the natural gas options, swaps and futures business for AmerenEnergy. He has also served as a submarine qualified naval officer and is a concert promoter who has produced over 70 shows. He is a frequent conference speaker whose articles regularly appear in Energy Risk, Commodities Now and the Oil & Gas Financial Journal. Larry has an MBA in Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and a BS in Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/lhickey
 DR MICHAEL WARREN
Executive Director, Global Research and Strategic Services
Hart Energy
United States of America
Presentation Title: SHALE OIL & GAS: HOW WILL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE US AFFECT ASIA?
This highly-qualified, multidisciplinary team is led by Dr. Michael Warren, Executive Director, Global Research Group. Prior to joining Hart Energy, Warren worked as the National Manager for Toyota Motor North America in charge of Latin American research; he also served on the board of directors for Green Plains Renewable Energy. Warren was a participating member of the Demand Task Group of the National Petroleum Council's (the "NPC") Oil & Natural Gas Study, representing the automotive industry. Warren has an MA and a PhD from Tulane University in Latin American Studies with a concentration on Political Economy and a BA in International Studies from the University of Southern Maine
 MR YINGMIN YE
Partner
Chem1 Consulting
China
Presentation Title: CHINA EXPORTING GASOLINE, DREAM OR REALITY?
Mr. Yingmin Ye, partner of CHEM1 CONSULTING, with nearly 14 years of consulting experiences in petroleum and chemical industry, is good at industry analysis and strategic research. He has provided consulting services for overseas and domestic energy and chemical corporations in business development in China. Meanwhile, he has made numerous presentations worldwide in related fields. Prior to joining CHEM1, he worked for SINOCHEM in Market Analysis Department.
Mr. Yingmin Ye graduated from the Zhongshan University with double degrees of chemistry and international commerce.
 MR KISHOR SUJANANI
VP Sales - Asia Pacific
Aspect Enterprise Solutions
Presentation Title: How Energy Trading Companies Are Using Technology To Collaborate & Succeed Amid Global Uncertainty
Kishor Sujanani is the Vice President of Business Development responsible for new business and accounts in the Asia Pacific Region for Aspect Enterprise Solutions. He is located in Singapore and works with leading companies helping to build best practices in commodity trading and risk management. Kishor has a successful history working with major technology companies providing Enterprise Software Applications to the Energy Industry for over 15 years and has been with Aspect for 5 years.
MR MR MOHAMED MERICAN
Lead Consultant
TRI-ZEN
Singapore
Mr Mohamed Merican is presently a Lead Consultant with the Singapore based consultancy, TRI - ZEN. He is a member of their Global Energy Team and has over 40 years of experience in the energy industry. His working career has been with the world's leading energy firms and storage/shipping companies,
- Exxon / Exxon Mobil
- Gulf Oil Corporation
- Van Ommeren / Vopak
He has spent the past 12 years serving the energy industry as a research consultant and advisor. His research and consulting experience/portfolio include Investments Banks, Government Agencies, National Oil Companies and International Oil Companies.
He is also a mentor to young Asians wanting to understand the dynamics and complexities of the Energy Industry.
August 2011
(Programme & Speakers subject to changes)
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