Noble Group names David Port as Group Chief Risk Officer

It also named new HR group head.

Noble Group Limited, a global supply chain manager of industrial, energy and agricultural products, announced the recent appointment of two senior executives: David Port as Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Alison Bott as Group Head of Human Resources.

Accorrding to a release from Noble Group, David Port takes over the CRO position from Bill Cronin. Port will be based in London and will report to Chief Executive Officer Yusuf Alireza and the Board Risk Committee. He will also join the Management Committee and participate in the Investment & Capital Markets Committee. The Group’s existing Market Risk, Credit Risk and Operational Risk teams will report to Port.

Port brings with him more than 20 years of international trading and risk management experience. Port will join Noble Group in early 2016 from E.On Global Commodities in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he was most recently its Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Board.

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Previously, he was a Partner and Chief Risk Officer with Infinium Capital Management and at Saracen Pure Energy in Houston. Before Saracen Group, he was Director of Global Energy Risk Management at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago.

Alison Bott will be based in London and will report directly to Alireza. She will also join the Management Committee. Bott has over 16 years of human resources experience. She joins Noble Group from Goldman Sachs where she spent six years as partner in charge of Human Capital Management for Asia. Alison also served on the Asia Pacific Management Committee and Human Capital Management Global Executive Committee.

From 1998 to 2008, Alison was Head of Human Capital Management for Europe. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Alison worked for Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultancy and Dunlop where she worked in sales and purchasing. Alireza said: “Noble has a world class management team, which is further enhanced by the addition of David and Alison. David brings with him years of experience in risk and will greatly enhance the Group’s businesses, whilst Alison will help us to deliver on one of our key priorities of attracting, retaining and training talent, which is essential to growing our business.”