VI International Conference«Black Sea Oil Trade-2018»

Yulia Garkavenko is a leading expert of UkrAgroConsult being with the company for more than 10 years. Since 2008 she is specializing in oilseed and vegoil market of Ukraine and Black Sea countries. Yulia’s primary focus is crop forecasts, S&D; balances and market studies.

Yulia is an author and chief editor of UkrAgroConsult’s specialized weekly Newsletter "Black Sea Vegoils & CIS" (Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Belarus). She has a 13-year experience in analysis and forecasting of Ukrainian and CIS ag markets, holds numerous publications in Ukrainian and foreign journals.

Yulia graduated from European University of Management and Business majoring in Finance and Crediting (1999).

Ben Buckner - Analyst, AgResource, USA.

Ben has been with AgResource since 2008, specializing in grains market research, and has been in commodity markets analysis since 2005. Ben began his career with the Research department at the Iowa Grain Company in 2007.

Ben hails from Nashville, TN, and graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, KY, with a degree in economics.

G Chandrashekhar holds several public positions including Economic Advisor at IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Member, SEBI Commodity Derivatives Advisory Committee; Consultant, UN International Trade Centre, Geneva. He is also a Columnist for agribusiness and commodities at The Hindu Business Line.

Agricultural engineer with post graduation in agribusiness management. Since 2003 serves as an analyst at Agroconsult in grains and sugar/biofuels sector, preparing market analysis, anticipating the trends, and working as a consultant for many projects and evaluations. As a speaker has already made several cyclical and conceptual lectures about brazilian agribusiness around the world.

Paul McAuliffe - President, WCA Corporation, USA

Consultant in Grain Forecasting & Economic Outlook

1999-2018: WCA Corporation, USA. Consulting and risk management services for the global agribusiness operators.

1977-1999 – 22-year career with Continental Grain in international grain/oilseed market research. M.B.A. in Finance from the City College of New York.

Oksana Prosolenko is the Regional Director (Ukraine, Russia, Bilorus) of the Donau Soja Association – international, non-profit organization, that promotes the sustainable production of high-quality non-GMO soy in Europe.

Oksana has a successful experience in implementing various projects, which developed and expanded sales market, attracted investment and gained access to external markets for the Ukrainian products of livestock, poultry and crop production.

Among the most important projects implemented by Oksana there are participation in the IPO on the London Stock Exchange, development of poultry products export and support in entering the European market, certification of Ukrainian corn supply to the Chinese market, soybean and soy processed products market development, as well as corn, barley supply from Ukraine.

Kyle Tapley is a Senior Agricultural Meteorologist at Radiant Solutions in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He joined the Radiant team following his graduation from Penn State University in 2008 with a degree in Meteorology.

Mr. Tapley is responsible for generating daily weather forecasts for major crop areas around the globe with an emphasis on how weather conditions affect production of agricultural commodities. He contributes to Radiant’s full suite of agricultural weather products and aids in generating production estimates for major agricultural commodities. Mr. Tapley also consults daily with industry traders and analysts, contributes to seasonal forecasts, and is a frequent speaker at agricultural conferences around the world.

Aleksey Danshyn - Deputy General Director of "Energetic" Group of Companies, specialized in manufacturing equipment for small, medium and large thermal power stations.

Kyle Flynn joined ST Equipment & Technology (STET) in Needham, Massachusetts in 2008 as a member of the process engineering group. He has worked closely with customers and the pilot plant to develop projects worldwide for the separation and purification of finely ground powders, including oilseed meals, using the patented dry ST Equipment & Technology separator. Kyle has assisted in commissioning multiple industrial mineral and fly ash separators, as well as research and development, process design, process optimization and business development. Kyle is a 2008 graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a 2012 graduate of North Carolina State University with an MS in Chemical Engineering.

Sumit Gupta started the McDonald Pelz India/SE Asia office in August 2014. After nine years at Cargill where he was involved in Indian grain origination, export and supply chain programme, he subsequently joined Olam in Singapore where he was handling corn books for Asia and the Black Sea.

Business Experience:

2007 - President LECICO GmbH, The Lecithin & Phospholipid Experts, Hamburg

2001 - 2006 President CARGILL Lecithin business unit

Since 1999 Shareholder of MEMBRAMED Health Food GmbH, Hamburg.

1986 - 1999 President of LUCAS MEYER GmbH Hamburg

1981 – 1986 General Manager of LUCAS MEYER GmbH

1975 – 1981 General Manager of the subsidiary in the Netherlands and Belgium

1969 – 1975 Sales Director, LUCAS MEYER Hamburg

1967 – 1969 Sales Manager, Hubbe Trading Hamburg

1963 – 1965 Bank Manager, Commerzbank Hamburg

For 29 years engaged with Phospholipids and their technological function and nutritional physiology of food supplements and functional food. The complete MEMBRANE FOOD concept exists since many years now. On this basis, discussions about the use of highly developed phospholipids in various fields of food supplements have been held with the food industry. Many lectures on phospholipids at scientific and marketing conferences in Europe.