Argus Americas Crude Summit

Mr. Garza has over 30 years of experience in the energy sector. He has served as Managing Director for Gunvor USA since the company’s inception in 2017, helping to lead the organization from start-up to now more than 150 employees in three locations (Houston, Stamford, Calgary, Canada). Mr. Garza joined Gunvor from Tesoro Refining & Marketing, where he was Vice President of Crude Oil & Feedstocks Strategy and Trading from 2014-2017. Previously, Mr. Garza spent more than 20 years in various financial and trading positions at BP, most recently as Crude Oil Supply & Trading Manager at BP-IST Oil Americas from 2006-2014. He began his career Amoco Chemicals before it became BP Amoco Chemicals. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, College of Engineering. Read less

Will Monteleone has served as the President of Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR) since January 2023. Par Pacific had 2022 revenues of $7.2 billion, Adjusted EBITDA of $643 million and approximately 1,400 employees. Previously Will served as Par Pacific’s Chief Financial Officer from 2017 to January 2023, Senior Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions from 2015 to 2017 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2013 until 2015. In addition, he has served on the Par Pacific Board of Directors since the company’s 2012 formation. Prior to joining Par Pacific, Will was a Vice President of Equity Group Investments (“EGI”), the Chicago-based private investment firm founded and led by Sam Zell, where he had been employed in various capacities from 2008 to 2013. Prior to joining EGI, Will worked for Banc of America Securities LLC from 2006 to 2008. In addition, Will serves as the President of New Hotel Monteleone, LLC and Monteleone Management, LLC. The New Orleans-based organization owns and operates the Hotel Monteleone and the Bienville House hotels. That organization has approximately $45 million in revenues and 300 employees. From its founding in 1886, the Hotel Monteleone remains one of the last family-owned and independently operated hotel properties in the United States. Will grew up in Houston, graduating from Kinkaid in 2002. Will matriculated to Vanderbilt and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in 2006. He is married to Jennifer Monteleone, and they have 3 children: William (8), Addie (7) and James (3) with William and Addie currently attending River Oaks Baptist School. Read less

Kevin McGovern is Head of Trading for the Americas for Eni Trading & Shipping Inc. His responsibilities include overseeing supply from the Americas to Eni’s refining system, marketing Eni’s equity production, and trading of refined products for Eni’s system. He joined Eni in 2021, and previously worked as a Senior Trader at Arcadia focused on proprietary trading and developing a US crude export business. He began his energy career at Chevron working in trading roles across commodities including crude, refined products, and LNG. He holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder. Read less

Jay Bany serves as Senior Vice President, Crude Oil Pipelines and Terminals for Enterprise Products. He has responsibility for Enterprise’s crude oil assets. Mr. Bany previously served as Vice President Crude Oil Pipelines and Terminals, Vice President of Unregulated Crude Oil and Products Pipelines and Terminals, Vice President of Distribution Services, as well as a variety of other leadership roles within distribution and engineering at Enterprise. He joined the company in May 2009 after beginning his career at Tenneco Energy in 1995. Mr. Bany holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Texas. Read less

Patti Leigh is vice president of Crude Supply & Trading, based in Houston, Texas. She leads teams that manage the global supply of crude oil for Chevron’s refineries and market all crude oil from Upstream assets. The teams also work closely with Chevron Shipping, Pipeline & Power, and third parties to transport crudes for internal and external customers, and they are tightly integrated with Value Chain Optimization organizations in Downstream & Chemicals to capture opportunities across the entire crude-to-customer value chain. Before her current position, Patti was vice president of Products Supply & Trading, leading teams that manage global supply, trading, and logistics of a wide range of products, including feedstocks, fuels, biofuels, and refined products manufactured, distributed, and sold through Chevron’s refining and marketing system. She was previously vice president of Strategy & Commercial Services, and responsible for leading teams that develop and deploy Value Chain Optimization across the Upstream-Midstream value chains; leading large business development opportunities for S&T; managing IT, digital, strategy, and planning processes for S&T; and maintaining centers of excellence around corporate VCO processes and S&T economic analysis.Patti has held a variety of management positions in her more than 30 years with Chevron. She began her career with the company in 1990 as a petroleum engineer in Chevron Production Company. Patti graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. Read less

Joseph Israel is an industry veteran with over 25 years of energy experience and a proven track record of driving operational excellence. Before joining Delek US in 2023, he served as President & CEO, Par Petroleum LLC. Israel also held leadership positions with Hunt Refining Company and Alon USA, which was acquired by Delek US in 2017. Read less

Suresh Vaidyanathan is vice president, Renewable Fuels, for Phillips 66. A chemical engineer, Suresh has more than 27 years of global experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to assuming his current role, he served as chief engineer & general manager, Refining Business Improvement. Previously, he served in a variety of positions for the company, including operations manager at Sweeny Refinery, refining technical services manager for Refining Business Improvement, West Coast strategy manager for Refining, technical manager at Trainer Refinery and optimization manager at Ponca City Refinery. He started his career at HPCL Refinery, India in 1991 (formerly Exxon-Caltex Refining), and later worked in the Fractionation industry with Koch Industries and Sulzer Chemtech in India, Europe and the U.S. Suresh holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. Read less

In his current role, Bevin is responsible for TC Energy’s Liquids transportation business. Prior to this appointment, Bevin was Senior Vice-President of Liquids Pipelines, accountable for the profitability and commercial management of TC Energy’s liquids pipelines. Before joining TC Energy in 2019, Bevin was a senior executive leading the commercial functions of an intermediate upstream producer. He previously held the role of Managing Director in energy advisory for a global investment bank and began his career with a major integrated energy corporation with multi-disciplinary roles across North America and internationally. Bevin holds a BSc in civil engineering from the University of Alberta, a Master’s in business administration from the Edinburgh Business School and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. Read less

Adam Arthur was recently named Executive Vice President for Energy Transfer in January 2021. In this role he has responsibility for all commercial functions within Energy Transfer’s crude oil organization including, gathering, business development and marketing & trading activities. Prior to this, Mr. Arthur served as Senior Vice President of Business Development. He joined Energy Transfer in 2012 and has served in various capacities during his nine year tenure. He earned an MBA and a BS in Marketing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Mr. Arthur serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Energy Transfer Canada, a gathering and processing business that provides midstream solutions in Western Canada. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orbit Gulf Coast NGL Exports, LLC, which provides ethane supply from the Gulf Coast to China’s first 100% ethane to ethylene cracker. Mr. Arthur’s experience includes cross-commodity business development on both regulated and non-regulated assets. Read less

Greig Sproule is the Vice President, Tolls & Tariffs with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Greig is responsible for leading a team that advocates our members’ market access interests for the safe, reliable and cost-effective pipeline transportation for oil and gas throughout North America. Greig and his team actively participate in pipeline task forces, tolls negotiations, regulatory proceedings and other industry initiatives. Greig is also providing interim leadership to the Research and Data team within CAPP. Prior to joining CAPP Greig worked for nearly two decades in the gas pipeline industry with leadership positions in rates, service development, regulatory and collaborative processes, followed by two decades of providing energy regulatory consulting services for a variety of regulatory agency, utility and utility customer clients. During this period Greig was executive director of the Industrial Gas Consumers Association of Alberta for 8 years. Greig provided consulting services to CAPP for 18 months prior to accepting his current role on November 1, 2020. Greig has been a Director for several large not-for-profit organizations and holds a certificate from the Institute of Corporate Directors. Read less

David has more than 30 years’ experience of working in energy markets. Prior to joining Argus, David was most recently chief economist at commodity trading company Gunvor. Before this, he managed the oil industry and markets division of the International Energy Agency and edited its influential monthly Oil Market Report. David has a master’s degree in energy policy and economics from Imperial College London. Read less

David is Macquarie’s Head of Economics and has been covering North America macro for the firm since 2011. His work focuses on structural themes, the economic outlook, and implications for asset allocation. He is a CFA charter holder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master's of Science in Managerial Economics. He has been designated a TopGun sell-side analyst by Brendan Wood International, indicating his client coverage rates in the top decile of world standards. Read less

James is responsible for business development in southern Europe and Africa. James has been with the company since 2004 performing several editorial roles, including editing European electricity and emissions market publications. From 2007-10, he was the editor of the daily Argus Crude report, managing a global team of reporters and developing new crude price assessments. Prior to joining Argus, James worked as a teacher, speechwriter and journalist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Manchester University and a master’s degree in international journalism from City University, London. Read less

Dr Paul Horsnell is the Global Head of Commodities Research for Standard Chartered Bank and is based in London. He joined Standard Chartered in 2013 and was previously Head of Commodities Research at Barclays, and Head of Energy Research at JPMorgan. Prior to becoming a financial analyst, he was a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies for 10 years, where he authored books on the Brent oil market (with Robert Mabro) and on Asian energy markets. Paul holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Doctorate in Economics, both from Oxford University. He is a former Chairman of the British Institute of Energy Economics and a Praelector in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford. Standard Chartered were awarded Commodities House of the Year 2020 by Energy Risk. Read less

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Nicholas directs Argus’ coverage of ocean-going freight markets and leads the global editorial team that produces freight price assessments, market news, and analysis. Prior to joining Argus in 2015, Nicholas co-founded the Enerpo Journal, a publication run out of European University at St. Petersburg that focuses on global energy politics. He holds a master’s degree in international politics from European University at St. Petersburg and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and Russian studies from Lawrence University. Read less

Vlasios joined Argus from Standard Chartered Bank where he was the head of the quantitative modelling and analytics team. He has expertise in data science for commodity markets and uses insights from data to illuminate trading, hedging and risk management for crude markets. He is the co-author of two books — one on applied data science and one on energy markets. Vlasios holds a PhD from City, University of London. Read less