Expert Profile
Shingo Potier de la Morandière is a Director and a principal of ***** . He specialises in Finance, Sales and Revenue Generation. The company advises investors and entrepreneurs on investment, due diligence, product development and business development. The process of engineering ideas in to a finished product through demand verification, product refinement and packaging is of his particular interest.
Before joining ***** , Shingo held a CFO and Co-Founder position at Flowr Ltd (Enterprise Social Network Start-up) and was the Founder and Principal at United Energy Advisors Ltd (Energy Risk Management Consultant). To date, he has launched 4 successful start-ups.
After graduating from Imperial College London with Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, he worked at various leading financial institutions including Societe Generale, Standard Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities where he traded, structured, marketed and sold high value complex derivatives transactions to large global businesses in aid of mitigating market risks. Products traded include Commodities, FX, Equities and Interest Rates. His technical approach and analytical solutions were noted by his peers, awarding him with various leading positions such as co-founder of a Hedge Fund, starting member and manager of a new department and leading roles during development of innovative and new products. He gained his complex database programming skills at Societe Generale where he developed automated trading platforms based on quantitative market analysis.
May 2011 - Present: ***** Ltd
Technology Consulting
- Due Diligence, product and market validation, business plan, management consulting
- Investor relations, private equity, exit strategies
- Web 2.0, technology and software focus
December 2010 - May 2011: CFP/Co-founder, Flowr Ltd
Enterprise Social Media company providing medium/large enterprises with intuitive and meaningful knowledge warehousing, real time collaboration and multimedia interaction.
March 2009 – December 2010: Director, United Energy Advisors Ltd (Energy Risk Management)
July 2008 – February 2009: Energy Sales and Trading, Standard Bank Plc
January 2002 – June 2008: Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International Plc (Formerly Tokyo-Mitsubishi International Plc)
Jan 05 – Jun 08: Senior Energy Derivatives Marketer
October 2000 – March 2002: Fund Manager, Carrousel Capital Ltd
December 1999 – September 2000: Equity Trader, SG Securities (London) Ltd
July 1997 – November 1999: Sanwa Financial Products (UK) Co., Ltd.
MEng, Imperial College, London.
ImechE (Associate)
GARP (Affiliate)
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