Over the last decade Matt Thomas, the Founder and CEO of Pacific Energy Brokers, has served as exclusive consultant, sourcing physical commodities for a Russian trading house (coal & middle distillates), a Chinese state-owned industrial (coal & bulk timber), several private Chinese companies, two Indian trading houses and an Indonesian producer. He has a track record for securing transactions between public and private companies, ranging from miners, to traders, utilities and industrial end-users. His energy, professionalism and capability have seen many companies come to rely on Matt and his team as key component of their internal coal marketing, trading or procurement team. Highly passionate about Australia’s coal industry, he has travelled extensively and takes pride in the rich personal and professional relationships he has developed.

 

 

In 2011, Matt established Marex Spectron’s successful physical coal brokerage desk to better serve the global OTC coal market with a highly capable and multi-lingual team. This team became a standard bearer for physical coal brokerage with a high level capability, global coverage, an extensive customer base and an informative market report (“Daily CV Report”). The team was instrumental in standardising 5500NAR thermal coal market from Australia (API5), South Africa and Russia into China (API8). The commoditisation of this market addressed Chinese procurement requirements and trader needs for improved product certainty on high-ash blend components for South Korea and Chinese-Taipei.

 

 

To maintain integrity of a customer’s thermal coal brand and prevent adverse price movements on spot, prompt or large transactions, Pacific Energy Brokers understand the importance of discretion.