Heraeus Precious Metals Forum Americas 2024
Spend half a day engaging with a powerful and influential group of industry leaders. Gain insights and the latest information on precious metals. Collaborate, learn and network to drive your business forward with cutting-edge knowledge from the best in the field. Please fill out the form below to attend the event.
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Heraeus Precious Metals Team is looking forward to hosting you!
Overview
Event Details
Agenda
| Timing | Agenda |
| 8:00am – 8:45am | Welcome by Heraeus Uve Kupka – Introduction, Henrik Marx - Welcome notes, Chiranjit Sapre (CJ) - Master of ceremony |
| 9:00am – 9:40am | Session 1 Macro Outlook – Potential Economic Impacts of the US Presidential Election Murat Tasci, Senior US Economist, J.P. Morgan |
| 9:40am – 10:10am | Session 2 Speaker 1: SFA PGM Update Henk de Hoop, CEO SFA (OXFORD) LIMITED |
| 10:10am – 10:40am | Session 2 Speaker 2: Enigma of Depressed PGM Prices in the Context of Fundamental Deficits David Jollie, Head of Sales and Market Insight, Anglo American Platinum |
| 10:40am – 11:10am | Coffee break |
| 11:10am – 11:40am | Session 3 PGMs and the Hydrogen Economy Philipp Walter, Head of Hydrogen Systems, Heraeus Precious Metals |
| 11:40am – 12:20pm | Session 4 Crossfire Panel Discussion Moderated by David Holmes Panelist 1: Bart Melek, Global Head of Commodity Strategy, TD Securities Panelist 2: Edel Tully, Head of Communications, LBMA Panelist 3: Matthew Watson, Sole Proprietor, Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC |
| 12:20pm – 12:30pm | Closing Remarks by David Holmes Senior Vice President Trading, Heraeus Precious Metals |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Luncheon |
Speakers
Uve Kupka, President | Heraeus Precious Metals North America
Uve Kupka serves as President of Heraeus Precious Metals North America. Uve studied Business and Economics at the University of Gießen and started his professional career as international controller for W.C. Heraeus. In 1998, he transferred to Singapore as Corporate Controller and was responsible for W.C. Heraeus divisions and subsidiaries in Asia. Afterwards, he managed Heraeus Ltd. in Hong Kong. In 2009, he moved to New York as President and headed the North American activities for W.C. Heraeus (subsequently Heraeus Precious Metals). He managed the business of the GBU Heraeus Metal Management in the US starting in 2015 and took over the management of the activities of the GBU Heraeus Precious Metals in the US in April 2017.
Henrik Marx, Global Head of Trading | Heraeus Precious Metals
Henrik Marx is heading global precious metals trading at Heraeus with four sites in Germany, New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He has been working with Heraeus and in the precious metals industry for over 15 years. He went through various roles starting in Recycling through Sales and Business Development. From 2015 to 2018 he was heading the Heraeus business in Hong Kong as the General Manager, followed by two years in Switzerland at Argor-Heraeus being in charge for the investment products department as Director of Sales. Since June 2020 he is the CEO of Heraeus Metals Germany overlooking the global trading activities for Heraeus.
David Holmes, Senior Vice President | Heraeus Precious Metals North America
David is the Senior Vice President for Trading and Sales at Heraeus Precious Metals New York LLC. He is responsible for funding and price risk management of precious metals to Heraeus sites in the Americas. The trading team offers the same physical metal service to external customers principally from the industrial sector. David joined Heraeus in September 2014. Prior to joining Heraeus, David commenced his career in 1980 working exclusively on precious metals trading desks with experience in both trading and sales at financial institutions ranging from AIG to Commerzbank. David graduated with an honors degree in Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Chiranjit Sapre (CJ), Sales Director | Heraeus Precious Metals North America
Chiranjit Sapre (CJ) has been with Heraeus Precious Metals for over 7 years now. He is the commercial contact for a chemical products, chemical catalysts and recycling business segments for North America. Prior to Heraeus, Chiranjit was with Metalor technologies where he commercially represented Metalor for their Mid-Atlantic Region customers.
Chiranjit has over 15 years of precious metals experience. He currently serves as a President for Metro NY Chapter of IPMI, and also serves as Board of Director for IPMI.
Murat Tasci, Senior US Economist, J.P. Morgan
Murat Tasci is an Executive Director and Senior US Economist at J.P. Morgan. Murat joined the Global Economics Research team in 2023. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Murat worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for 17 years, most recently as a Senior Research Economist conducting research on a wide variety of topics related to macroeconomy and labor markets. His research appeared in peer-reviewed journals and various Federal Reserve publications. Murat holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Economics from Koc University in Istanbul.
Henk de Hoop, Chief Executive Officer - MSc, CFA | SFA (OXFORD) LIMITED
Henk de Hoop is a mining engineer and Chartered Financial Analyst. He has a proven track record as a top-ranked investment analyst, having analysed companies and commodities in detail in the gold, coal, base metals, diamond and PGM sectors as a stockbroking analyst for 12 years. Henk spent the next 14 years as a resources sector investment banker, getting involved in significant capital raisings and M&A advisory for a wide variety of mining companies across the commodity spectrum, and has an authoritative understanding of valuations and relationships across the value chain. He recently joined SFA (Oxford) Ltd. as Chief Executive Officer. SFA (Oxford) provides bespoke, independent intelligence on the strategic metal markets.
David Jollie, Head of Sales and Market Insight, Anglo American Platinum
Dr. David Jollie is Head of Sales and Market Insight at Anglo American Platinum. Before joining Anglo American in 2016, he spent five years as an analyst and as head of research at Mitsui Precious Metals, covering all of the precious metals globally. He also previously spent more than twelve years working at Johnson Matthey, where he undertook a variety of roles, all focused on the platinum group metals. He began working there as a development chemist focusing on diesel exhaust emissions before moving into the precious metals marketing business as a market analyst covering the demand side. For the last four years at Johnson Matthey he wrote their leading reviews of supply and demand in the platinum group metal market, travelling frequently to meet with end users and producers. He has a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Nottingham in the UK.
Philipp Walter, Head of Hydrogen Systems, Heraeus Precious Metals
Philipp Walter is a chemist by education and received a PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He held several management positions in the chemical industry in new business development, marketing, sales and business management in Norway, USA, Switzerland and Germany. He joint Heraeus in 2016 and is now leading the Business Line Hydrogen Systems for Heraeus Precious Metals. Philipp is based at the Heraeus' Headquarters in Hanau, Germany. He is passionate about Precious Metals in the new energy and feedstock regime, currently evolving.
Bart Melek, Global Head of Commodity Strategy, TD Securities
Bart Melek has well over 20 years’ experience analyzing precious metals, base metals, energy, financial markets, as well as key economies. He has worked closely with commodity, equity and FX trading desks around the world, and has several forecasting distinctions and top global rankings. Bart contributes to the TD Securities strategic view on commodity, various other markets and macroeconomics. Bart is also a sought-after media commentator. Previous to joining TD, he had senior roles in equities, commodities and risk. He holds a master’s degree in economics from York University in Toronto, with an International Finance/Banking Specialization.
Edel Tully, Head of Communications, LBMA
Dr Edel Tully is an industry expert with 20 years of experience in the precious metals market. Edel spent 10 years at UBS where she was most recently Managing Director and Global Head Precious Metal Sales and prior to this, Head of Precious Metals Research. Before UBS, Edel was Head of Precious Metals Research at Mitsui and Co. Precious Metals, Inc. She is currently the Head of Communications and lead on the Financial Markets Development work at the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). Edel holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin which examined seasonality in the gold market.
Matthew Watson, Sole Proprietor, Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC
Matt Watson who is based in the Silicon Valley, has over forty years of experience as an operations executive in numerous industries and technologies driving process and yield improvements. Matt gained his expertise in PGMs at Seagate Technology (HDD’s & electronics) and SoloPower (PV pastes) and a deep understanding of the current and potential uses for Ruthenium and Iridium developed during his time at leading business development for the Tanaka Kikinzoku Group. Most recently, Matt is the founder of Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC, where Matt is helping mining and industrial clients with Precious Metals Consulting Services, Market Reports, and Supply Chain Management expertise.
