Our people are at the core of our focus. With a solid track record, diversified trading experience, and a strong financial background, we strive to execute all our deals with outmost professionalism.
Since the inception of the company, we put an emphasis on setting up best-practice processes in areas such as risk management, compliance, corporate responsibility and communication. Laying the right foundation, solid, stable and scalable is truly at the base of any success story.
We hedge all our risks, and do not keep any position open unless associated with a physical trade. Amongst these risks are price risk, currency risk and liquidity risk. Most importantly, each of these risks is identified before we commit to a trade and mitigated following strict processes.
Centurion trades oil products mainly in the EMEA (Mediterranean Sea basin, Northern Europe and the Black Sea), with current expansion plans to West Africa.
Light-ends – gasoline blend stocks are in high demand, as they allow blending operations to obtain qualitative fuels for cars. We match exports with our customers’ needs.
Distillates – diesel, jet and gasoil are at the heart of our trading activity. Various regional, national and international regulations impose strict sourcing and distribution routes, that we optimize for our customers.
Centurion Group SA focuses on the export activities and international trade of agricultural commodities from the Black Sea region.
We specialize on cargo origination, elevator storage, inland and port logistics as well as shipping and distribution of key agriculture products such as:
Our origination team, in main grain production areas, works closely with crop producers, bringing added value to the Company’s international soft commodities trading activity.
Ostap Nekhoda comes with over 10 years of trading experience having traded products in Europe, the Americas and West Africa. During his career he participated in setting up new ventures and building trading desks. In his last position as director and partner, he has contributed to the fulgurant growth of one of Geneva’s latest success stories, Element Alpha. Trading and trade finance are at the core of his knowledge.
Mathieu Coolen, has worked over the past 11 years in the investment banking industry, mostly in the commodities area, and then moved to join Gunvor Group’s finance team, where he held several positions from Trade Finance Manager to Head of Structured Finance and finally Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury. He has a significant track record in commodities financing and a sound experience in dealing with international banks.
Silvio Kofmel has more than 40 years of experience in the banking world in various sectors and institutions. Joined Banque Bruxelles Lambert (Suisse) SA as a group head in 1985 to build a new Trade Finance activity. When merging with ING in 1999, he became Head of the global TCF activity in Geneva and joined the Executive Committee of the Bank. Under his lead, ING became the leader in the global TCF market. He retired in 2015 and since remained active in the Commodity market as a consultant and member of the Board of a number of companies and banks.