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Meet the team at Fastmarkets

With more than 500 team members worldwide, we have price reporters on the ground, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics for the commodity markets we serve.

Our team provides price data for thousands of proprietary prices, as well as forecasts, market intelligence and insights-rich events for market participants to network, trade and discuss the critical forces driving change.

Below you can read more about each of the members of our senior leadership team, or browse some of the recent insights and analyses from our talented group of price reporters, analysts and editorial teams working across the four markets we serve.

We believe in celebrating and enriching the diversity and wellbeing of our people. This drives more inclusive behavior, perspectives and better business outcomes.
Raju Daswani, CEO at Fastmarkets
Meet the leadership team

Raju Daswani

Fastmarkets CEO

Perrine Faye

Global head of editorial and pricing

Toby Burton

Chief financial officer

Louise Noone

Chief human resources officer

James Mansfield

Chief revenue officer

Varun Atre

Chief product officer 

Catherine Oates

Managing director, events

Chris Davies

General Counsel

Richard Peers

Chief technology and information officer

Stuart Evans

Chief analytics officer

The board
Fastmarkets CEO
Chief financial and operating officer
Fastmarkets non-executive board director
Insights from our price reporters, analysts and editorial teams

Browse our insights and analysis across the four markets we serve from our experts in agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new generation energy

Atlantic Panamax freight rates have hit their highest level since the 2022 Russia-Ukraine crisis, driven by the Iran conflict, elevated bunker fuel costs and strong grain export demand – with no immediate relief in sight.

Vietnam’s ambitions to become a burgeoning processing hub for secondary metals is hitting a wall of private-sector skepticism, Fastmarkets heard on the sidelines of the Third China Metal Recycling Spring Conference (CMRA 2026) held in Hanoi, Vietnam on May 9-12.

The function of treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for copper concentrates is being partially displaced by a broader set of commercial levers amid elevated byproduct values – including readjusted gold and silver payables, sulfuric acid tolling arrangements between miners and smelters, and renewed trade in gold-bearing pyrite materials – copper concentrates market participants told Fastmarkets at CESCO Week 2026 in Santiago, Chile, from April 13-17.

South32 said on April 30 that first production from its 4.3-million-tonne-per-year Taylor zinc-lead-silver project in Arizona has been delayed to the first half of the 2028 calendar year.

Following the recent Fastmarkets North America Biofuels & Feedstock Conference, our analysts examine how biomass-based diesel growth in 2026 is being shaped by a more demanding market reality defined by policy complexity, feedstock constraints, certification requirements, and co-product economics.

On Wednesday May 6, a critical minerals panel at Commodities Trading Week in London said metals markets are shifting from an energy transition-led narrative toward security of supply, leaving Europe particularly exposed because of its reliance on imports.

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