His commercial exposure has been gained through a broad range of senior executive roles in commodity trading, investment management, and commodity finance. His consultation is sought by Governments & Multinationals for advice in market developments and the health of business Ecosystems. In 2014 he was called upon to serve as Senior Energy Advisor to the United States Department of Defense (TFBSO)
He is a published author, having documented and shared his extensive industry expertise through a series of 12 books and publications with Wiley Finance, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer and De Gruyter. Some of these textbooks have become required material for professional exams & university courses and have been cited by NASA, other Government agencies and Academics around the world.
Blockchain and artificial intelligence are perhaps the two most significant disruptive technologies this century and both will significantly rewire the world of global financial markets and the world in which we live. While blockchain offers a number of significant advantages over traditional forms of finance including lower cost and massive increases in operational efficiencies of traded markets, property records and a whole host of transaction processes, artificial intelligence is moving fast from basic structured machine learning doing menial yet important big data tasks like credit card fraud detection to predictive analysis and real-time real-world risk management and investment decision making.