Philippe Mahe

Philippe Mahé, 48 years old, began his professional career in 2000 in the brokerage of financial derivatives on government bonds at Crédit Agricole Indosuez in London.

Wishing to pursue his career in physical commodities trading, he will be in charge of logistics (Europe, Brazil, Africa, Middle East) as well as holding positions on the ICUMSA 45 white sugar and brown sugar futures markets on behalf of traders.

On a personal basis, he will be involved in a project to buy out a fruit and vegetable trading company on the Rungis M.I.N. (Marché d'Intérêt National) through an LBO. BNP PRIBAS and HSBC will provide financial support.

In 2007, he created a profit center for the physical intermediation of biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) within a petroleum products brokerage company in Switzerland, ensuring liquidity and price discovery in a nascent market (producers, oil companies)

He will co-found an iron ore trading entity (62% Fe) from Mexico, centralizing the production of small mining structures on the main ports of the Pacific coast to China. The same for antimony ore from Laos.

Active on the French market on behalf of a Swiss trading company, it sells primary zinc to galvanizing manufacturers in France.