Sharon has almost 30-years’ experience in commodities journalism, covering everything from mainstream, high-profile oil benchmarks to the nascent, developing and emerging PRA requirements of forestry and agriculture. She has worked as a price reporter, real-time news writer, managing editor and editorial director.

Jeff Redd joined Random Lengths in 1995.

He works as part of the editorial team for Random Lengths news and price reporting products. He reports prices for Green Douglas Fir and OSB North & Western Canada. He also covers new for engineered wood Products, trade with Canada, retail market indicators and wood retail outlooks.

Previously he was a newspaper reporter, most recently as sports editor for The Olympian, Olympia, Washington.


He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Jeff is married and has five children.



In his free time, he enjoys playing golf and is an avid college football fan (especially of the Oregon Ducks).

Will Adams is the head of battery and base metals research at Fastmarkets, where he has worked in management and research for both the battery raw metals and base metals teams. Will’s focus is on understanding and forecasting the battery raw material markets, including the market dynamics and economics in lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin and gold.

As CEO, Raju’s driving purpose is to build a successful business that allows everyone at Fastmarkets to meet their potential and be proud of their achievements.

Jordan’s expertise is focused on analyzing the lithium, nickel and cobalt markets, including the construction of supply and demand models, which underpin our short- and long-term forecasts.

Krishna joins Fastmarkets from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) where he was a Lead Cell Engineer working on electric vehicle (EV) Batteries.