Josh Clayton
Josh joined HC Group in 2020 and works within the Gas & LNG, Power & Environmental Products, and Renewables practice in London.
Josh is responsible for all Gas & LNG mandates across the EMEA region. He partners a range of clients including vertically integrated Gas & LNG producers, international utilities, merchant traders and large industrial consumers.
Josh holds a BA in Spanish and Russian from Leeds University and spent a year at Moscow State University.
I am excited to see how the energy & commodity CFO office is beginning to play a far more strategic and often operational role within the context of a commercial marketing or trading operation, evolving from being primarily fiduciary in nature to more visionary and value-creative.
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