Nine years in commodities. The first of them in mining, at the ordinary bulk end of the market; the rest moving steadily upward — to strategic metals, critical raw materials and rare earths.
That progression is the substance of the practice. Working with poorer materials first teaches how an operation actually behaves: what a deposit really holds, what a plant can really deliver, and how far a claim sits from a fact. Carrying that habit into the critical end of the market — where supply sits in few hands and qualification is slow — is what clients are buying.
Her work is business development in the full sense: opening markets, building a supplier and client base that stands up to scrutiny, and organising the commercial function around it. She founded Empress Global Materials to do that work independently.
How she works
Personally
Mandates are led directly. The firm stays deliberately small.
Independently
No title to material and no position of its own. Where a mandate ends in a concluded transaction, the firm is remunerated by the party that appointed it, on terms agreed in writing beforehand.
Discreetly
Confidentiality agreed in writing before names, sources or documents are exchanged.
Presence
Three markets, one practice.
Gulf
Dubai
Producers, trading houses and buyers across the Gulf, Africa and Asia.
Europe
Monte Carlo
European industry, family capital and investors in the materials chain.
Americas
Miami
North and South American producers, processors and industrial buyers.