David Phipps joined Mentum Inc in May 2008, advising the Board on strategy and the development of the business and was appointed Chief Executive in September 2008. David has a very successful track record in building and running trading and broking operations in a number of segments in the commodities sector including base metals, energy, natural gas and power, emissions, soft commodities, agricultural and freight. He was latterly Co-Global Head of Commodities at UBS AG and prior to that was head of commodities at ABN AMRO Futures having joined from Merrill Lynch in 1996.