CWC World LNG & Gas Series: 11th Asia Pacific Summit

Andrew Walker

VP Strategy

Cheniere Marketing Ltd.

Dr. Andrew Walker is the Vice President for Strategy and Communication for Cheniere. 

He is located in London and is responsible for the Strategy and Market Outlook of Cheniere, reporting into the Chief Commercial Officer.

Until October 2015 he was Vice President for Global LNG - and prior to that Head of LNG Strategy - at BG Group where he worked for over 20 years before joining Cheniere. 

During his career in LNG he has been located in Singapore, Egypt, the USA and UK and has worked on numerous LNG projects including Atlantic LNG in Trinidad and Tobago, Egyptian LNG, and Dragon LNG in the UK. 

Dr. Walker has a Doctorate in Geology from Imperial College, University of London. 

Ye Yishu

President

GCL Petroleum Trading Singapore

Darshan Hiranandani

CEO

H-Energy

Mr Darshan Hiranandani leads H-Energy – the energy venture of the Hiranandani Group – one of India’s largest residential developers. Mr Darshan holds a Masters degree with a major in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Under his able leadership the Company has ventured into LNG regas terminals and natural gas pipeline projects in India. The Company also plans to develop an LNG liquefaction project and crude oil infrastructure in Canada.

Mr Darshan started his professional career pioneering the development of 23 Marina, a 90 storey, 400m residential tower in Dubai – the world’s 3rd largest residential tower – which generated more than US $250 Million in revenues. As part of the Board of Directors of the Hiranandani Group, Mr Darshan’s achievements also include the establishment of the Dr. L.H. Hiranandani Hospital, which won the coveted Ramakrishna Bajaj Award for the best hospital in India.

Rajnish Goswami

GM - LNG Marketing

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Rajnish Goswami was named General Manager, LNG Marketing of Mozambique LNG in June 2017. In this role, he is responsible for commercializing Mozambique LNG in SE Asia, Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East markets. Mr. Goswami has more than 25 years of experience in the global natural gas / LNG industry.

Prior to joining the Mozambique LNG team, Rajnish was Team Lead in Shell’s Developing Gas and LNG Markets team in Singapore. 

Previously, he held positions with BG (VP LNG Strategy) and Wood Mackenzie (Head of Asia LNG Consulting) based out of Edinburgh, London and Singapore.

Rajnish holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Ryosuke Tsugaru

CEO

Diamond Gas International

Ryosuke Tsugaru is Chief Executive of Diamond Gas International (DGI), a wholly-owned LNG marketing, trading and shipping subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation. DGI handles Mitsubishi’s global LNG portfolio, and works in close collaboration with Mitsubishi Corporation’s global network to deliver integrated solutions across the entire gas value chain.

Ryosuke has over twenty-five years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. Upon graduating from the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University he joined Mitsubishi Corporation, where his career focused on utility feedstock supplies and major LNG projects in various countries such as Brunei, Indonesia, Iraq and Oman. In 2014, Ryosuke was appointed Head of the LNG Project Development Office of Mitsubishi’s Natural Gas Business Division, where he was responsible for business development across the LNG value chain from upstream gas exploration and production through LNG shipping, and for Mitsubishi’s interest in the Wheatstone LNG project in Australia.

Prior to assuming his role at DGI in Singapore in 2015, Ryosuke’s postings included a stint in London (2005-2009).

Mark Gyetvay

Chief Financial Officer & Deputy Chairman of the Management Board

NOVATEK

Mark Gyetvay is the CFO and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at NOVATEK. From 2003 to 2014, he was a member of NOVATEK’s Board of Directors and served as the Chairman on the Strategy and Investment Committee.  He was responsible for listing NOVATEK on the London Stock Exchange in 2005, and has led many of the Company’s Eurobond and domestic bond placements.

He has been consistently recognized by Investor Relations Magazine as one of the best CFO’s in Russia and the CIS by winning numerous awards and accolades, and was recognized twice by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the Top Five CFO’s in Europe’s Oil and Gas sector.  Mr Gyetvay is the recipient of the Finance Monthly 2015 - 2018  “Best CFO – Russia”, “Game Changer Award – Russia ” 2017 and 2018, and was recently announced as the Institutional Investor’s “Best CFO” in the EMEA oil and gas industry for 2017.

Prior to joining NOVATEK, he worked at a number of independent oil and gas companies in the United States since 1981 where he specialized in financial and economic analysis matters in both the upstream and downstream segments, as well as was a former partner in PWC’s Petroleum practice based in Moscow from 1995 to 2003. He is an internationally recognized expert in the oil and gas industry and a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Tom Earl

Chief Commercial Officer

Venture Global LNG

Tom Earl is the Chief Commercial Officer of Venture Global LNG. Tom previously served as Vice President at the international oil company Total, focusing on the development of its global LNG business. 

After graduating from City University in London with a degree in Engineering, Tom joined Total’s newly formed gas marketing and trading team in 1998. After various responsibilities within the trading division of the newly combined Total, Elf and Petrofina operations, he managed the natural gas option desk and gas trading desk. Tom successfully led significant commercial negotiations on long-term gas and LNG contracts in countries such as Russia, Norway and Qatar.

In 2006, Tom was appointed Head of Electricity Trading at Total where he led a significant expansion into newly opened power markets across Europe. In 2011, Tom moved to Houston, where he was appointed as the head of Totals North America commodity trading business, including its LNG, gas, power, coal, petcoke and LPG operations. Tom also represented Total in its US LNG liquefaction transactions from 2012 to 2015.

In 2015, Tom was appointed Vice President of Development for Totals global LNG activities and highly regarded global expansion into new LNG markets. This work has included innovative new LNG terminal projects and new downstream asset transactions across the world.

Keita Enjoji

Head of LNG - General Manager

Tokyo Gas Asia Pte. Ltd.

Keita Enjoji has assumed his current role in Singapore as of April 2016 and represents the LNG side of the business within Tokyo Gas Asia Pte. Ltd., to support the various mid-downstream business development activities in the South East Asian region.  Also acting as an extension arm of the LNG procurement and trading division within Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., to which he has belonged for the past 7 years following the Fukushima earthquake, he has taken an active role in the optimization of the company’s LNG portfolio.