Dr Carlos Blanco is an expert in energy, commodity, and financial risk management and modeling and lectures extensively on topics related to enterprise wide risk management, energy derivatives pricing and hedging and other risk topics. He has published over 90 articles on financial, energy, and commodity risk management and modeling, and more recently on ERM topics.

He is currently a lecturer at the Finance department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and managing director of a research and advisory firm with clients in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Carlos is a former VP, Risk Solutions at Financial Engineering Associates. There, he worked over six years as an essential contributor in the development of the energy and risk management models of the firm, and providing strategic and tactical leading-edge risk advisory and educational services to over 500 energy and commodity trading firms and financial institutions worldwide. He also managed the world-class support and professional services department within the firm.

Prior to FEA, Carlos worked for a hedge fund in the Midwest and an asset management firm in Madrid, Spain. He is a regional director of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA)

Dr. Blanco will facilitate the launch of Derivatives Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management (TPD), an Intermediate/Advanced Course to Debut in Singapore come July 2007.

Joseph A. Vaszily is currently President of Gas Asset Solutions, Northeast, an independent energy consultancy. Delegates will have the opportunity to learn from his 25 years of in which he developed, acquired and managed energy infrastructure assets.

Mr. Vaszily began his career as a Field Engineer for Distrigas of New York and later working as a Gas Consultant for Stone & Webster Management Consultants, Inc. He served as Vice President at Brooklyn Union Gas. Prior to obtaining his current position, he was Vice President, Gas Infrastructure Development, at KeySpan Energy Development Energy Mr. Vaszily holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute (Brooklyn, NY).