#160: Joe Raia (Abaxx Technologies) - Building a New Commodities Exchange, Futures Contracts & LNG: The Investment Case in Plain Sight

Greetings, and welcome back to the podcast.

This episode, we are joined by Mr. Joe Raia - Chief Commercial Officer of Abaxx  Commodities Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse - a new Singapore based futures Exchange that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian based Abaxx Technologies, a CBOE Canada listed technology company that aims to build tools for better commodity benchmarks for the energy transition. 

Joe is a Former Managing Director, Head of Global Commodity Futures at Goldman Sachs and Global Head of Energy and Metals Futures and Options and CME/NYMEX. 

Prior to his tenure at the exchange, he was the Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Markets, RJ O’Brien & Associates.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Maritime Academy, and was a licensed US Merchant Marine Captain.

Among other things we discussed building a new commodities exchange, futures contracts & the investment case for LNG.

Enjoy.