James Gavilan
Founder & Principal
James Gavilan is a global commodities finance executive with over 25 years of experience across finance, risk management, marketing, and mining and metals. He founded Gavilan Commodities in March 2019 to provide financing strategy, risk management, and consulting and advisory services to the global commodities industry. He is a FINRA-registered investment banking representative with GT Securities, a CFTC-registered commodity trade advisor, and a board member of the Metro NY Chapter of the International Precious Metals Institute, where he focuses on sustainable finance and ESG-metrics capture.
He developed his finance, risk-management and operational expertise over two decades of increasingly senior roles at JPMorgan Chase, ICBC Standard Bank, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank. Prior to founding GavCom, he served as SVP of market development at Republic Metals Corporation, a former LBMA precious-metals refinery, where as an executive-committee member he supported the CEO on strategic projects, risk-management initiatives and client and lender relations.
He holds an MBA in finance and investments from CUNY Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, and a BA in Psychology (cum laude) from Fordham College at Lincoln Center. He is fluent in Spanish.
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