Benjamin Gibson joined Affinity (Shipping) in December from a commodity futures brokerage where he set up an LNG desk.
A former AP Moller-Maersk graduate trainee, Gibson cut his teeth on forward freight agreements (FFAs) at Clarksons where he was hired by then chief Richard Fulford-Smith, who founded and now heads up Affinity.
He has spent six months doing set-up work at his new company, where he is head of derivatives, and in July pulled off the first LNG freight derivatives trade between Total Gas & Power and Glencore.
