Volcafe
David Kettle is a seasoned trader with extensive experience in the commodities market. Currently serving as a Proprietary Trader at Volcafe since October 2023, David utilizes futures, spreads, and options while leveraging the company’s research and physical information. Prior to this role, David worked at Marex Spectron as a Soft Commodities Trader from June 2015 to September 2023, achieving a consistent track record over ten years. David also held the position of Commodities Trader and Vice President at Macquarie Group from September 2008 to May 2015, managing the cocoa, coffee, and cotton OTC books and taking proprietary positions. David's educational background includes a Master of Mathematics in Operational Research, Statistics, and Economics from the University of Warwick, completed in 2008, and prior education at Gravesend Grammar School.
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Volcafe
Making coffee business better, together. Volcafe is one of the largest traders of Arabica and Robusta coffees, providing the beans for 80 billion cups of coffee each year. Drawing on our long history in the coffee trade, we aim to be the world's best coffee partner. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, quality control, risk management, and logistics. Our network of buying and selling offices covers over 90 percent of world production. We work across the whole green-coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We partner with farmers and roasters of all types and sizes to help them meet their customers’ needs, stay ahead of the market and thrive. We work directly with producers, sourcing quality coffee and applying our processes to enhance consistency. We play our part improving growing and production, sustaining businesses, attracting the next generation and securing the future. We work toward a thriving, sustainable coffee business for all. Volcafe’s Sustainability Strategy works in three areas to achieve sustainable profitability for farmers, promote regenerative practices to combat climate change, and support thriving communities through responsible citizenship.