Christian Hofer

About Christian Hofer

An experienced entrepreneur and business developer with a proven track record in commodities portfolio management & strategy, energy litigation and renewable generation. Boasting a proven track record building out new business lines and adding value at companies ranging in size and stages from start-ups to Fortune 500 Wall Street banks. Utilizes a deep background in strategic thinking, sales and relationship building, and a unique combination of skills in computer science and commodity fundamentals.Currently, I am working at Charter Commodities, LLC, a commodities trading and consulting firm which I founded with discretionary money in 2013. Trading operations are engaged in physical and financial oil, natural gas, environmental (carbon trading and RECs) and US power markets. Charter\'s proprietary business process is fully automated, from data acquisition and scrubbing, exploration, modeling and interpretation. The end results are actionable, money-making trading strategies, grounded fundamental analysis and client-specific deliverables. Charter\'s consulting includes portfolio-valuation litigation and renewable energy credit optimization.Through my experience, I have gained expertise as: 1) entrepreneur: successfully launched a start-up with operations in the US and Asia; 2) business developer: spearheaded new revenue lines within carve-outs of a large investment bank; 3) strategic thinker: skillfully deployed scarce resources within limited budgets and prioritized tasks to meet tight deadlines; 4) team and project manager: expertly lead a fundamental analytic groups, set achievable goals, monitored junior staff progress and reviewed work for accuracy and; 5) modeler/forecaster: designed and deployed a wide spectrum of models from high alpha grey-box algorithms to complex monetization strategies and fundamental demand & supply-side forecasting systems.My career and life experiences have led me to believe something Charles Darwin postulated in the 1850s, namely that “…it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

Experience

1. Vice President of Market Operations

   Key Capture Energy

   Apr 2024 — Present

Education

• Suffolk University - Sawyer Business School

  MSF, Finance

  2007 — 2008

• University of Richmond

  BA, Economics and Religion

  1996 — 2000

• Open Source Data Science Masters

  Masters in Data Science, Data Science

Skills

• Commodity
• Trading
• Proprietary Trading
• Energy
• Commodity Markets
• Derivatives
• Energy Markets
• Hedging
• Financial Modeling
• Options
• Valuation
• Power Trading
• Natural Gas
• Electricity Markets
• Hedge Funds
• Quantitative Analytics
• Investment Banking
• Commodity Risk Management
• Financial Risk