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LEAD Consult Expanding Services and Reach

LEAD Consult was at E-World with a sizeable booth and so this week, I connected with the principals – Alexander Nikolov and Dragomir Stanchev – to learn more about their consulting business. It is specialized in providing business and IT consulting services in the energy and financial sectors,...
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AgFlow’s Vision Enabler – CEO, Sacha Prost

Last week, I met with the new CEO of AgFlow, Sacha Prost, who has now been onboard around 6-months. His vision for the business is that AgFlow should become the leading agribusiness market intelligence company that helps its users do their jobs smartly and optimally. One of the...
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VAKT Sees Progress on its Initial Vision

It had been sometime since we had had a briefing from VAKT. It was formed in 2018 by a group of oil majors, traders, and trade finance providers. Its founding partners had seen a problem that they believed required their collective action: the physical post trade process was...
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Xceler – A Supply Chain Solution in the Cloud

The CTRM software arena is very active and despite everything, we often find new vendors and products. Recently, I found another called Xceler and last week, I had a call to find out more about the software and the company behind it – Xceler. Its website describes Xceler...
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Singa Associates Focus on CTRM Selection and Implementation

Our industry is one in which personal connections are important and recently I heard from someone I had worked with several years ago as you often do. Tony Chapman wrote to let me know he was with a consulting firm by the name of Singa Associates. Singa Associates...
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RadarRadar sees growth opportunities in energy

Risk management is crucial in the energy and commodity sectors due to numerous factors such as geopolitical tensions threatening supply routes and contributing to price volatility or regulatory pressure encouraging companies to invest more in risk management. Additionally, the energy transition is prompting jurisdictions to open markets to...
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Sprit of the clean energy transition at E-World 2024

E-World has always been the main event of the year for the energy software business. For over two decades, I have been participating in this event, representing leading software vendors in the energy sector. However, this year’s E-World was notably different for me, for several reasons. Firstly, I...
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How smartEn is supporting Energy Transition Technologies.

smartEn – Smart Energy Europe – serves as the premier European Business Association driving the integration of consumer-driven solutions within the clean energy transition. The organization provides valuable support to its more than 90 member companies offering a diverse array of smart technologies and data-driven energy services. smartEn...
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A Visit to E-World

So last week was E-World in Essen back to its February slot. I attended on the Wednesday and it was absolutely packed – perhaps the busiest I had ever seen it. I did the rounds of the CTRM and related vendors while my colleague, Irina Reitgruber, focused in...
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Developing CTRM Expertise

I’m just back from the annual pilgrimage to E-World and will be writing more on that show later as will Irina. One theme I hear there talking to many colleagues past and present was about experience. The discussion around hiring resource came up any number of times and...
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