He got a degree in business and marketing and started as a clerk at one of the largest physical commodity trading firms (think of Cargill/Louis Dreyfus/Glencore) and spent several years until he got his first job as a real trader. He made so much money that eventually he started his own physical commodities trading house and then a hedge fund. Commodity trading firms; ITI@SMU; 16 largest firms worldwide Vitol. The company engages in the extraction, trade, refining, storage, and transport of energy. Vitol Asia Pte Ltd is headquartered in Singapore. Glencore. Glencore has worldwide activities in the production, sourcing, processing, refining, transporting, storage, financing and supply Agricultural and Soft Commodities have provided the backbone for commodities trading for millennia, today’s world is no different. With changing market flows due in no small part to droughts in Australia and ongoing trade tensions between the US and China our clients have had to find traders and experts in alternative trade flows.