Benjamin Clark

About Benjamin Clark

Responsible for managing organizational efforts to facilitate and continually improve:• Project Portfolio Planning, Tools Administration, and Financial Reporting• Project Life-cycle Processes and Requirements• Project Controls - Scheduling, Cost and Schedule Risk, Cost Tracking, and Forecasting• Project Funding Authorization• Project Governance• Project Training Life-cycle• Project Stakeholder Engagement and Initiative Enablement,• Project Analysis/Analytics/KPIs.Prior thirteen-year career building and managing multiple business units operating across global commodity and financial markets.• Arranged and executed the purchase and sale of commodities and currencies in the 24-hour global marketplace for speculators, producers, institutions and end users using futures, options, exchange for physicals, delivery, and cash transactions.• Worked directly with commodity producers on establishing market value/opportunity and price forecasting in order to develop and execute hedging and selling strategies based on current and forward commodity pricing curves and currency movement.• Developed extensive data management and processing systems for historical, daily, intra-day commodity/currency prices for both price and volatility analysis and forecasting. This data processing and analysis solution was the cornerstone of 3 subscription-based commodity and currency web services.• Starting at proof of concept, led the development, daily operations, service optimization, and quality control of 2 commodity and currency trading units and 3 web services throughout their lifespan while additionally building strategic online marketing initiatives including email campaigns, SEO, webinars, and training programs.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Technical Support Services

   Buckeye Partners

   Mar 2023 — Present · Allentown, PA, US

   Portfolio Management, Project Process/Funding/Training, Project and Maintenance Controls, Capital Project Development, Enterprise Asset Management, Maintenance Sourcing.

Education

• Quinnipiac University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Business Analytics

  2017 — 2019

• Widener University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management, Finance

  2000 — 2005

Skills

• Management
• Team Building
• Options
• Mutual Funds
• Risk Management
• Forecasting
• Marketing
• Commodity
• Public Speaking
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Markets
• Trading
• Strategy
• Alternative Investments
• Proprietary Trading
• Finance
• Electronic Trading
• Series 7
• Portfolio Management
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Hedging
• Hedge Funds
• Customer Service
• Analysis
• Training
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Social Media
• Marketing Strategy
• Microsoft Excel