David Surtees - Marketing Director

As the Group Marketing Director, David Surtees is responsible for origination and structured deals throughout the EFT territory.

David is an accomplished director & manager, strategic planner, trader, originator and business developer with nearly 30 years working experience within large Investment banks, US listed Corporations, Utilities, trading companies, merchants and brokers.

David started his career as a pit trader on the London Metal exchange for Cominco, the large Canadian Zinc mining company. In 1984 he joined the Gerald Metals Group and was responsible for the Groups Aluminium portfolio.

In 1988 David joined the American trading giant Drexel Burnham as VP Head of Global Aluminium trading. In 1990 following the fall of the Junk bond market and the demise of Drexel Burnham, David was part of the team that transferred the Drexel franchise, portfolio and customer base to PaineWebber.

In the early 1990’s Global Investment Banks became very interested to enter the Commodities trading world as this put them in the path of lucrative project finance, trade finance and stock finance opportunities.

In 1994 David joined Union Bank of Switzerland where he was instrumental in building up the Banks commodities presence before being hired away by rival Deutsche Bank AG where he was appointed Global Head of the Banks Commodities Group.

As a result of the Asian financial crisis in 1998 a change or direction beckoned as commodities were very depressed.

In July 1999 David joined the US energy merchant Dynegy with a mandate to develop the Groups Continental European Electricity and Gas trading actives.

Following the collapse of Enron in 2002 it became impossible for Dynegy to operate in Europe so David was retained to close down all the Groups portfolios and companies throughout Europe.