Robert Desmond

I am a veteran of WWW e-commerce dating back to 1994 (maybe earlier!) and before that honed my expertise in financial markets as a derivatives analyst/trader. I am an expert in exchanges / marketplaces & publish the daily newsletter of financial infrastructure "Exchange Invest" He is an expert in global financial infrastructure and publishes the world's leading daily newsletter on the topic "Exchange Invest" as well as "Social Impact Bond News." Former stock exchange CEO in CEE, board member of a PE fund in the region, serial non-executive, mentor & co founder of various entities. Understands finance, horeca, publishing, and many other sectors outside of pure finance! Lectures in startups & entrepreneurship (UMK, Torun, Poland), has spoken world-wide and write a half dozen or so books. etc.

- Trading refinery produced oil products from Singapore to all over the world - Focused on fuel oil markets with consumers varying from shipowners, power plant buyers, refineries and other oil traders - An expert on bunker trading and pricing - Managed the fuel oil terminal and blending operation on a 400,000 cubic storage facility - Worked with refineries to supply secondary feed stocks - Worked as a scheduler for a 500,000 bbls/day refinery

Start growing faster with data driven but creative marketing for consumer brands. Skills in strategy - automated marketing, growth hacking, inbound marketing, paid search, retargeting, lifecycle marketing, UI/UX, CRO and data analysis. Skills in creating creative campaigns - Photography, video, copy, email etc. Currently manage online strategy at CMC markets with multi million dollar budgets. Previously head of marketing at Ometria which raised over $3 million dollars in seed capital and in wired's top 100 startups 2014. Rapidly built the Ometria blog from zero to over 30,000 visits and 500 leads per month. Creator of the Ultimate Monthly Review on edgotham.com