The FastMarkets Team
FastMarkets is a leading provider of online commodity market information, providing rapid delivery of precious,
base and minor metals prices, news and research to a worldwide user base through its three websites
TheBullionDesk.com, BaseMetals.com and MinorMetals.com. The three websites have become foremost in their
respective fields by successfully leveraging leading edge technology, with a deeply experienced metals team, enshrined within a corporate culture which is highly resourceful, responsive and entrepreneurial - business, but with a passion.
The websites have come to be seen by market participants as reliable, authoritative and influential. BaseMetals.com is quickly gaining momentum amongst market professionals, miners, refiners and
industrial clients who use it increasingly as their default point of reference for non-ferrous market information. Although
offering plenty of free-to-view information, premium subscribers to BaseMetals.com receive a far
richer experience with real-time LME and COMEX streaming prices, exclusive access to research
from the leading metals analysts, commentary from our in-house editorial team plus state-of-the art
technical analysis charting tools - all of which puts the user right on the pulse of the market ... a dealing room experience but with all of the mobility and flexibility
that a browser permits.
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John Parcell - Chairman
Formerly a main board Director of Reuters Group plc, and Chief Executive of Reuters Information, its largest division, in charge of all news reporting and financial data services. John brings to FastMarkets Ltd a strong record in driving revenue and profit growth in fast moving financial markets. In his capacity as Chairman, John provides strong leadership and strategic direction for the business.
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Marion King - Non Executive Director
Marion King is Chief Executive of Voca, the company (formerly BACS) that owns the most scaleable, robust and functionally-rich payments service in the world. Marion was formerly the MD of Global Transactions at Reuters leading a £400m business through product change and innovation. As Managing Director of Reuters Business Information, Marion created and led the division through a sales growth that defined its leading position in Europe.
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John Goodger - Non Executive Director
John has a wealth of experience with small businesses which are entering rapid growth. He is a Director of NW Brown Corporate Finance and is on the board of a number of quoted companies (fully listed and
AIM) where, amongst other activities, he has assisted with their
corporate development and acquisition strategies.
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Dominic Hall - Joint Managing Director
Dominic has a BSc (Hons) in Information Systems Engineering from Durham and was formerly Global Bullion Options Manager for Mocatta & Goldsmid (Standard Chartered) in London before successfully running his own risk management and deal capture systems business. Dominic has responsibility for the IT, risk management, legal and finance functions of the business.
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Ross Norman - Joint Managing Director
Ross has a BA (Hons) Degree in Marketing and formerly worked for Sinclair Research, Johnson Matthey, NM Rothschild & Sons and Credit Suisse, where he was a Senior Dealer in physical bullion trading. Ross is frequently sought for market comment from the leading newswires, TV stations and newspapers. Ross has responsibility for the editorial, marketing and sales functions of the business.
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The Sales Team
Richard Jakob - Sales Director
Richard has 13 years’ sales experience at a senior level, 8 of which have been at Metal Bulletin where Richard was Head of Sales from 2002 until 2005. Consequently Richard is very familiar with the non-ferrous markets and has excellent connections throughout the international base metals community.
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Jim Porteous - Sales Manager
Jim Porteous brings over 25 years of experienceof the London Metal Exchange and has deep knowlwdge and experience in working in its related industrial markets. In this capacity he will generating new subscriptions for our rapid online metals market service from industry professionals.
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Lina Farida - Sales Manager
Lina runs our Singapore Office and is responsible for all our Asian located clients. Lina held a senior position with Metal Bulletin where she was responsible for developing subscriptions sales opportunities in the region and she brings with her a wealth of market knowledge and experience in the Asian metals markets.
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Andy Farida - Telesales
Andy works as a part of the Telesales team and deals with new site subscriptions.
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Roberto Ghiandoni- Telesales
Roberto works as a part of the Telesales team and deals with new site subscriptions.
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Mike Brister - Telesales
Mike works as a part of the Telesales team and deals with new site subscriptions.
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Emma Short -Telesales
Emma works as a part of the Telesales team and deals with new site subscriptions.
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Shaun Bartlett - Telesales
Shaun has worked in sales for over 6 years, previous experince has been with the Newsquest and Guardian media groups as Senior Sales Consultant. Shaun has worked mainly advertising and sales but has also dabbled in the leisure and tourism field.
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Sharon Shahzad - Marketing Manager
With a number of years experience in direct marketing, Sharon will be responsible for pushing forward marketing campaigns and increasing public interest in our websites.
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The Finance Team
Rachel Smith - Finance Manager
Rachel works closly on all the accounting issues in the company. Rachel oversees the smooth running of the financial team, and makes presentations to the board on behalf of the Financial team.
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Penny McNicol - Accounts Assistant
Penny is reponsible for the credit control in the company and ensuring all invoicing and payments run smoothly.
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Sara Robinson - Accounts Assistant
Sara has worked in finance for over 8 years for a number of international companies. Sara is currently studying for her AAT to become a fully qualified Accounting Technician. Sara handles invoicing for the company, she also works with advertising and sales to make sure all renewals are checked and updated for all subscriptions and site sponsors.
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Martin Hayes
Martin Hayes comes to FastMarkets with over 22 years of metals journalism experience. Formerly of Reuters, Martin has covered the majority of commodities focusing mainly on the metals world, with his insight into the London Metal Exchange and their base metals, Martin leads reporting on the BaseMetals.com website and can most often be found at the ringside from where he reports breaking news and views.
James Moore
TheBullionDesk.com lead analyst James Moore covers the precious metals world in 2 daily market reports and provides regular market commentary to the media. Jimmy was formerly a successful precious metals trader with Mocatta & Goldsmid in London.
William Adams
BaseMetals.com lead analyst William Adams covers the base metals world with a daily report as well as market commentary and specialised reports. William was formerly Head of Global Metals Research for Rudolf Wolff.
Angus MacMillan
Angus MacMillan has more than 25 years experience in analysing the markets for the major base metals. His first exposure to the base metals came with Commodities Research Unit (CRU), the international consultancy, where he specialised in the steel alloying metals.
Perrine Faye
Perrine Faye joins the team from AFP News Agency where she held the position of Commodities Reporter for the past four years, with an emphasis on both the metals as well as the energy markets. In her capacity as metals correspondent Perrine will be spending time at the ringside of the London Metal Exchange from where she will be able to report from the market as it moves.
Austin Kiddle
Austin manages the day-to-day running of the FastMarkets Ltd websites ; Austin is one of the longest serving employees in the Company and works with the editorial team in adding new reports, and managing all other aspects of the website content. Austin also deals in website advertising and design work.
Clara Denina
With a MA course in International Journalism Clara works closly with Martin and Perrine - Clara allows more constant coverage for our websites in the Commodites sectors. Clara previously worked for the Lajm Gazete (Kosovo) and also for the Italian Corriere della Sera.
Jono Remington-Hobbs
Starting out as a lowly Coffee Boy - Jono is an 'In Training Technical analyst' - while learning the trade, Jono is also working on building site advertisment to help build on current relations with site sponsors and to forge new relationships.
The Technical Team
Daniel Smith
Daniel is our lead IT developer for all websites at FastMarkets Ltd employing the latest cutting-edge technology and ensuring that the websites run smoothly and efficiently. Daniel was formerly a software developer for the risk management business Rolfe & Nolan.
Toby Bush
Toby is the link between the technical side of the company (Sailsbury) and the client facing side (London). By working in the London office, Toby is able create applications for the benefit of the Sales team and our clients such as our PDA / Mobile site and our in-house CRM system / content management system.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan (The UK Rummikub Champion) joined the company as an IT Developer to help us, not only improve our current services, but also allow us to develop new websites and services. With a Masters Degree in Mathematics, Daniel has already developed MinorMetals.com since joining FastMarkets.com.
Tim Ashby
Fresh out of the University of Glamorgan, Tim has graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Network Management & Security. Tim is responsible for maintaining our IT Infrastructure and provides IT support to all staff as required. This includes any hardware and software issues throughout the company and the general routine maintenance for the day to day running of our network infrastructure.
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