Our consultants bring senior leadership experience from trading desks, technology, and management consulting, so you’ll be working with people who’ve sat in your seat.
In successful commodity trading companies, business and IT are as inseparable as the driver, engine, and support team in a winning F1 team.
To win the race, all three need to work in perfect harmony: skilled traders behind the wheel, a high-performance system landscape under the hood, and a strong IT and support crew in the pit.
Bridging business, operations, and technology is therefore at the very heart of what we do.
We deliver commodity consulting and commodity trading solutions across the full trading value chain.
CommodityFirst was founded and is managed by people with senior management experience from the commodity, technology, and management consulting industries.
We have sat in our clients’ seats, which means we bring concrete answers from day one.
Together, the team covers and possesses in-depth knowledge of the entire value chain of commodity trading and the technology required to support and address the most critical challenges our clients face in the world of:
Our engagements span the full trading value chain: from strategy reviews and target operating model design, through capability assessments and risk framework development, to ETRM selection and implementation and real-time toolkit deployment. We scope each assignment around the specific gap you’re trying to close, rather than applying a fixed methodology.
We start with an independent assessment of your current business and technology setup against where your trading strategy is heading: expansion into new commodities, markets, or renewables exposure often outpaces what the existing landscape can support. We’ll give you a clear view of whether the gap is strategic, operational, or purely technical before recommending a path.
Yes, this is one of our core specialties. We manage transformation and system changes in parallel with live trading operations, sequencing delivery so the desk keeps running while the underlying landscape changes underneath it.
We work alongside your team as an extension of it, not a replacement. Depending on what you need, we can provide a few subject matter experts, a complete project team, or anything in between. The decision is yours.
Our senior consultants deliver immediate impact and you can count on the same seniors throughout the whole assignment, never substitutes. When your subject-matter experts are stretched, we proxy them, so your projects keep the momentum and never stall. We leave your teams stronger, with lasting capabilities rather than a dependency on us.
Almost all of our consultants have direct commodity trading backgrounds, as former C-level managers, trading desk heads, originators, risk managers, solutions and data Architects, technology leads, or IT strategists, rather than coming purely from a technology or generalist consulting background. That means less time spent explaining your business to us. You can expect value delivered from day 1.
Timelines depend on scope, but we always start by building a realistic implementation roadmap tied to a solid business case, so you know the investment, the sequencing, and the expected outcome before committing to a full program.
Yes, we scale from individual subject matter experts to full project teams, so you can bring in exactly the level of support the situation calls for.
Committed to help you optimize and grow your commodity trading and technology business
If you need help with transforming or reviewing parts of your commodity trading business or system landscape, developing a solid business case with a realistic implementation roadmap, let’s talk!
