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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Andrea Vigo
Assistant Treasurer and Corporate Risk Manager, Executive Director – Sadara Chemical Company
[email protected]
Andrea Vigo joined Sadara in Nov 2014
as a Dow Chemical Secondee and he is
currently the Assistant Treasurer. In
this role he has been instrumental in
developing the Treasury Department
organization, strategy and operational
processes to support Sadara moving from
a construction to an operational phase.
As Corporate Risk Manager Andrea is
responsible for managing the credit
risk, financial risk (interest rate and
FX) and insurance for the company.
Andrea joined Dow in 2005 in the
Customer Financial Services group
within Treasury as a Credit Manager.
In January 2009, Andrea joined the
Corporate Risk Group as Financial Risk
Manager in the Treasury Department,
and was responsible for managing the
daily global liquidity, FX exposure
and the hedging strategy. Andrea
was also responsible for managing
the Dow Agroscience soft commodity
and grains hedging program. In
November 2011 Andrea assumed the
role of Director in the Corporate
M&A Group. He was responsible
for supporting the Dow Corporate
strategy and portfolio optimization
via acquisition, divestiture and JV.
Prior joining DOW, Andrea worked
as Management Strategy Consultant
in various firms in Italy.
Adam Wakeley
Senior Vice President – Dubai Energy hub leader
[email protected]
Adam is the Dubai Energy hub leader,
responsible for all Energy business
in the MENA region. He oversees
market placement, client service,
engineering and operations.
He has been based in Dubai since 2007,
where he was tasked with setting up and
running the Energy placement team.
He has been extremely influential in
the development of that market, seeing
it grow from around $500m of capacity
in 2007 to over $2,500m today. As head
of energy market placement, he set and
executed the strategies for construction,
upstream, downstream, liability and
political violence accounts.
He has also developed the hub
into an extremely successful
wholesale placement resource for
global accounts in addition to the
retail work for regional clients.
He has been with Marsh since 2002
having joined on the graduate scheme.
Prior to his move to the Middle East, he
spent five years working in London as
a specialist on the Onshore placement
team. During this time he was heavily
involved in a diverse range of global
downstream business. Additionally he
was responsible for placing all of Marsh
Energy’s political violence risks. Adam
was also seconded to the Marsh Global
Markets Construction broking team.
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