Key Speakers
Raju Daswani
CEO
Fastmarkets
Raju Daswani
CEO
Fastmarkets
Shortly after graduating from the London School of Economics in 1991, Raju began his working career at Alcan in the UK. In 1995, Raju moved to Metal Bulletin as a Senior Economist, and built his career at MB through a number of roles culminating in his appointment in 2006 at Managing Director, and later CEO. American Metal Market is the North American pricing & information arm of the Metal Bulletin Group. A focus on developing the best pricing data for the markets it serves has established the Metal Bulletin Group as the world’s leading price reporting agency (PRA), information and events business for the metal, steel and raw material markets. The Group has successfully acquired other commodity price reporting & information businesses including FastMarkets in 2016 and RISI in 2017. RISI is a global PRA providing leading benchmarks for the pulp, paper and wood product markets. Raju oversees a team of 400 employees located in the USA, UK, China, Singapore, Brazil, Brussels & Finland – together the business today assesses over 4,000 prices, provides analysis and forecasts for these markets and also stages over 50 world-leading cross-commodity global events.
Eduardo Mello Franco
Marketing Manager, Pricing Iron Ore
Vale
Eduardo Mello Franco
Marketing Manager, Pricing Iron Ore
Vale
Marketing executive with solid experience in the Metals and Mining industry and Finance. Strong knowledge of the Iron Ore market fundamentals, focused on commercial strategy, pricing models and segmentation. Aluminium market strategic planning and research, generating analysis and forecasts. Investor Relations, Equity Research and Corporate Finance background.
Alice Shen
Deputy General Manager
Shagang International (Singapore) PTE.LTD.
Alice Shen
Deputy General Manager
Shagang International (Singapore) PTE.LTD.
Alice joined Shagang in 2020 with responsibility for procurement of steemaking raw materials. She also works to develop analysis and provide insights for the company on market trends, opportunities, and challenges of the steel industry.
Ebrahim Dadoo
Head of Sales and Physical Trading, Iron Ore
Anglo American
Ebrahim Dadoo
Head of Sales and Physical Trading, Iron Ore
Anglo American
Ebrahim joined Anglo American in 2013, where he was based in South Africa, managing product development. In 2017, Ebrahim moved to Singapore, where he held managerial positions in technical marketing and sales. In June 2022 he was appointed as the Head of Sales and Physical Trading for Anglo American Iron Ore. Prior to joining Anglo American, he worked for ArcelorMittal for nearly 10 years, in various technical and managerial roles within iron making. Outside of work, Ebrahim serves as a Non-Executive Director of the South African Chamber of Commerce Singapore, a non-profit entity with the objective of promoting trade and business relations between South Africa and Singapore. Ebrahim has a BSc (Engineering) Metallurgical and Materials Science and a Master of Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is married to Aneesa, and they have four children.
Renato Hendriksen
Head of Market Intelligence
Samarco
Renato Hendriksen
Head of Market Intelligence
Samarco
Renato is the Head of Market Intelligence for Samarco based in Brazil and has more than 20 years of experience in the mining and metals sector with vast expertise in the global iron ore and pellet markets. He has held management positions in Marketing and Sales, Market Intelligence and Business Strategy in global corporations such as McKinsey, Vale, Rio Tinto and EGA. Renato holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering with an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Parizat Pandey
Director of Product Group Direct Reduced Iron
Metso Outotec
Parizat Pandey
Director of Product Group Direct Reduced Iron
Metso Outotec
Parizat Pandey is the Director, Direct Reduced Iron Product Group in the Ferrous & Heat Transfer business line at Metso Outotec. He is passionate to contribute to the sustainability targets and carbon reduction footprint of the industry. Within the product group, his focus is to develop and commercialize green steel technologies to serve iron and steel industry. Mr. Pandey has prior experience with plant operations, process improvement projects in non-ferrous industry and technology solution within Metso Outotec.
Ling Lu
Executive Director, Metals and Mining
Standard Chartered
Timo Smit
Executive Head of Marketing (Iron Ore)
Anglo Amercian
Timo Smit
Executive Head of Marketing (Iron Ore)
Anglo Amercian
Timo Smit is the Head of Marketing and Sales Iron Ore and is based in Singapore. Timo started his career as a research scientist with Akzo Nobel, a Dutch chemicals company, and worked for them in the Netherlands and in the United States. He then joined management consultants McKinsey & Co, where he worked for nearly 10 years, both in the Netherlands and in Southern Africa, specialising in basic materials. In 2004 he joined TechnoServe as Country Director for South Africa. TechnoServe is a not-for-profit development agency focused on providing ‘business solutions to rural poverty’ by helping to set up and/or turn around businesses in poor rural areas in South Africa. After 3 years at TechnoServe, Timo then joined Kumba Iron Ore as Head of Commercial, in 2007. He is now Head of Marketing and Sales Iron Ore, with responsibility for Kumba Iron Ore and Minas Rio. Timo holds degrees in Applied Physics (M.Sc. – Technical University of Delft) and Materials Science & Engineering (Ph.D. – MIT). He is married to Mieneke and they have 3 children who keep them busy in their free time.
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