It’s not very often I get visited in my hometown of Brno, Czechia by a client. In fact, I can count this rare occurrence on one hand and must give honorary mention to Shaun Ankers, CEO of Energy One and Simon Wheeler who have visited me here twice – Shaun from Australia no less. However, last week, I had a visit from Gerald Neher, Managing Partner of ComFin and his business partner – Gunther Dauner. We met in town at one of my favorite coffee shops to catch up a bit and discuss ComFin. ComFin Software provides what it describes as “cost competitive, full-featured trade administration and risk management software applications (categorised as CTRM) to the global commodity and energy industries.” One item of great importance to Gerald and Gunther was to ensure that the market was fully aware that they had acquired the business at the end of 2018 and had been running it successfully ever since. For them, this change in ownership marked a significant shift in corporate strategy and culture and they felt that in some quarters, this news had been somewhat overlooked. ComFin is based in Vienna and it utilises local staff and it sees their… continue reading