Senior finance executive with experience in physical commodities, derivatives and securities including risk management, structured origination, trading and portfolio management.
Limited Partner | Strategic Advisor
Ken Gustafson is a Limited Partner and Strategic Advisor to Vine Advisors, providing guidance and advice on finance, risk management, valuation and capital markets. He brings more than 25 years of experience across markets, derivatives, structured finance and investment management.
Ken is a Limited Partner and Strategic Advisor to Vine Advisors, where he provides select advisory support. His areas of expertise include trading and risk management, derivatives and securities valuation, asset valuation and transactions, capital markets and financing, energy and infrastructure, and litigation support and expert services.
Prior to joining iDS Solutions as a Managing Director, Ken was a Founding Partner at Vine Advisors, where he advised clients on finance, risk management, valuation, asset transactions and structured products across commodities, derivatives and securities.
His previous experience includes executive and advisory roles with Citigroup, Shell Trading, Enron, Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and Bear, Stearns, with experience spanning Houston, New York and London.
Ken is an Advisory Board Member of Eiffel Trading and a strategy advisor to NatGasHub. He holds an A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan and is a CFA charterholder.
Mobile: 281-795-2369
Email: kgustafson@thevineadvisors.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kennethgustafsoncfa/
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Global Investment Bank
Head of Commodity Structuring
- Led team structuring portfolio, asset and product transactions
- Lead structurer on wind/renewable strategy, including major transactions
- Optimized sizing of credit CVA, regulatory capital and return hurdles
Global Oil and Gas Business
Head of Deal Structuring for North American Gas and Power
- Extensive use of VaR modeling and risk profiling
- Ran derivatives origination with focus on financial swaps, options and derivative products
Global Investment Bank
Co-Head of Energy Risk Management Advisory Practice
- Provided structured transaction, risk management and investment banking advisory services
Energy Advisory Business
Principal and Advisory Board Member
- Advisory, consulting and hedge restructuring
- Litigation support and expert services
- Developed relative value trading and portfolio strategies for alternative investment products
Global Investment Bank
Proprietary Trader
- Arbitrage and trading of physical, derivative, and forward contracts and positions in oil, oil products, natural gas, softs, lumber and metals.
- Traded and valued commodity-linked securities
- Trading and Risk Management
- Derivatives and Securities Valuation
- Asset Acquisition, Divestiture and Valuation
- Capital Markets and Financing
- Litigation support and expert services
- Credit and Risk Valuation Product and Management
- Start-up Capital Structures
- Multi-instrument Trading and cross-commodity arbitrage
- Real Option and Merchant Strategy
- Basis Risk Mitigation Strategy and Execution
- A.B. Economics – University of Michigan
- CFA Charterholder
