Benjamin North

Global Head of Delivery for the Commodities Practice. Responsible for overall program management, consulting as a senior commodities SME and business & revenue generation. The commodities practice offers front to back technology support; namely in: metals (concentrates/base & precious); the energy complex (power; gas; oil; coal; carbon; weather; LNG); and investor products (commodity indices & linked notes)

An experienced leader with a proven track record in managing & supporting global IT teams within the Commodity Trading & Investment Banking Industry. Has facilitated the construction and integration of both development, analyis and support teams using third party vendor technologies (notably Openlink) in addition to greenfield proprietary applications. Reporting to the Global Head of Trading systems have overall responsibility for the trading platforms in the EMEA & Asia Pac regions.

Worked for the FX Prime Brokerage business and was responsible for the design and construction of a billing engine to support the billing of PB Clients. Key responsibilities included design of the technical architecture and the management of a small development team who developed the STP functionality for trade "Give Ups" and then the core engine to provide the commission/billing analytics.

Was a senior developer responsible for the design and development of a new trading platform (front to back) to support the Physical Gas and Power Markets. Was one of the first teams in the industry to rollout this type of application using Microsoft's .Net technology

Was the lead developer on a RAD solutions team within the Derivatives IT department. Was responsible for developing applications for the exotic control group. The key application being the design & development of new web based reconciliation application that became the bank standard.

Worked for the Global Equity Finance Technology Group on the trading floor. Partnered with the Stock Loan Traders to understand, document and implement their requirements.

Was the key developer on the Front Office team solely responsible for the implementation of NETA (notifications) for the UK Power market and was responsible for support when NETA went live.

Worked within the Financial Control / Product Control IT department working on projects ranging from General Ledger adjustments to FX Distribution

As a graduate worked as an analyst developer in Consultancy for a number of blue chip clients.