Our Team
Trevor Raymond, Chief Executive Officer
Trevor Raymond has been a member of the leadership team at WPIC since its launch in 2014, originally leading the organisation’s global Research and Investor Development team before being appointed CEO in 2022.
Trevor is a precious metals specialist with over 30 years’ experience in the equity and metals markets, with deep experience in gold and platinum mining companies, including roles in corporate finance, marketing and executive leadership.
He joined WPIC from Anglo American Platinum, where he led the company’s commodity research and market development in London. Prior to this, Trevor was Anglo American Platinum’s Head of Investor Relations in South Africa.
Underpinning his career has been a commitment to ensuring investors can access the insights necessary to make informed investment decisions and then act, using the most appropriate investment products.
David Badham, Chief Administrative Officer
David leads finance, operations, HR, legal and governance for WPIC. He joined from Cass Business School where he was the Deputy Director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre, leading sponsor relationships. He also authored research on social impact investing for the Financial Times.
David was the Head of Investment Marketing for Europe at the World Gold Council until 2013. His responsibilities included the development of global distribution channels for research.
In a 25 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland, David’s roles included Head of Business Strategy, Marketing and Communications at the bank’s global wholesale banking and markets division, based in London.
Weibin Deng, Regional Head of Asia Pacific
Weibin, our regional head of Asia Pacific, is based in Shanghai and leads his team with particular focus on China and Japan markets. He joined WPIC as Country Head of China in 2017 from BNP Paribas, where he had served for eight years in both Singapore and Shanghai and played a significant role in their development of their commodity franchise in China.
Prior to BNP Paribas, Weibin worked for a number of leading firms in New York and Singapore, specialising in global commodity markets. These included JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Deloitte & Touche and Bank of America. He has 16 years of professional experience in business development, risk management, product control, accounting and operations.
Edward Sterck, Director of Research
Edward leads research for WPIC.
Prior to joining WPIC, Edward spent over 15 years in sell-side equity research, focussing on the mining sector, including coverage of the major global platinum producers and diversified miners. As well as research on mining equities, Edward undertook supply/demand analysis for platinum, diamonds and uranium.
Most recently, he was a highly-ranked Mining Analyst and Director at BMO Capital Markets, covering more than 40 different stocks during his tenure.
Edward brings extensive capital markets experience to WPIC with a career that has also spanned interest rate derivatives trading and advisory roles on corporate fund raising. He studied geology at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, and is a fellow of the Geological Society.
Vicki Barker, Investor Communications Manager
Vicki researches, writes and publishes WPIC investor communications, including its popular 60 Seconds in Platinum articles, across all digital channels.
An experienced corporate communications professional, Vicki started her career as an analyst with a major UK bank. Her first communications role was with the then 250-listed AB Ports, where she was Investor Relations Manager. More recently, she was Communications Manager for the infrastructure and real estate asset management firm, InfraRed Capital Partners.
Michelle Bosman, Product Partnerships Manager
Michelle is the Product Partnerships manager for WPIC’s North American and European relationships.
Michelle has over 12 years of professional experience in sales, marketing and business partnership building, based in South Africa and the UK. She has worked in one of the world’s largest FMCG companies developing sales strategies, building and guiding a team to greater success, and developing/growing long term business partnerships. She has also worked at corporations focusing on the finer detail of aluminium, precious metals and mining, with business partners across the world.
Conan Chitham, Legal (consultant)
Conan oversees WPIC legal matters, including our contractual dealings with third parties and in relation to intellectual property.
Conan is an experienced commercial lawyer with a variety of international experience, including in the global general counsel’s office of one of the big four accountants. He has acted for a number of clients in the finance and investment sphere, including other precious metals, and some of the world’s biggest international entities in industry and e-commerce. He was previously a partner at two leading London law firms, Mishcon de Reya and Withers.
Alongside his role at WPIC, Conan continues to act as consultant counsel for a number of businesses in relation to their technology, commercial and complex project work.
Brendan Clifford, Head of Institutional Distribution
Brendan is responsible for the interface between the WPIC and investors to ensure data, research and insights meet the needs of different investor groups. Identifying investors whose mandate and risk profiles are most suited to an allocation to platinum and establishing optimal two-way communication underpins the WPIC Investor Development programme.
Brendan joined WPIC from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) where he was an analyst in the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection division responsible for sourcing, researching and investing in long-only equity fund managers.
Prior to this, Brendan was an assistant fund manager with Dublin-based Merrion Capital, responsible for co-managing three equity value funds.
Jacob Hayhurst-Worthington, Associate Research Analyst
Jacob adds to the team’s operational knowledge of the metals and mining business, having commenced his career as a mine engineer. His previous positions include First Quantum Minerals and Endeavour Mining, where he had a specific focus on precious and base metals operations in Africa. His most recent role was as a Group Mine Engineer for Endeavour Mining, a gold producer.
Jacob holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter and has completed a master’s in Metal & Energy Finance at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.
Katharine Hosmer, Financial Controller
Katharine is responsible for the finance function of WPIC. She has over 13 years of experience working in Financial Controller, CFO and Finance Director roles for international organisations, and has been CIMA qualified since 2007.
Katharine started her career in Procurement at IBM. From there she moved to Visa where she decided the accountancy route was for her. Her career has taken her through the Pharmaceuticals, Media and Market Research sectors, working for companies within the Omnicom and Lumanity Groups. Latterly she moved back into the financial services sector, in commodities, working for an energy brokerage firm.
Ja Yoon Kim, Business Analyst, Asia Pacific
Ja Yoon joined WPIC in the China office in 2024, after completing his master’s degree in Development Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he focused on Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. He works on marketing cooperation and investor development activities, such as digital management for WPIC and Shanghai Platinum Week, and report localisation. Ja Yoon also collaborates with various agencies to assist WPIC in growing in the Korean market.
Ja Yoon gained experience in investment banking as an intern while studying at UC Berkeley and New York University Shanghai Division. His internship involved market research, data analysis, and investor management.
Grace Lin, Investor Development Manager, Asia
Grace joined WPIC in 2020 from a Beijing legal firm where her responsibilities included legal research and proofreading. She is now managing the investor development business in Asia including operations of WPIC social media accounts, media relationship and Shanghai Platinum Week as well as engagements in the domestic platinum industrial events. Grace is also responsible for assisting our Asian product partners with marketing and promotion.
After graduating from college in the United States, Grace started her career in an investment management firm, where she focused on marketing and investor relations.
Bhavick Morjaria, Technology (consultant)
Bhavick is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects at WPIC, including strategy, infrastructure, cyber security and telecoms.
A technology consultant with over 20 years’ experience, Bhavick worked at Deutsche Bank and Oracle Corporation before moving to Bain & Company, the global management consultancy. While at Bain, Bhavick led the Partner support team in London and supported the firm’s Munich and Zürich offices.
Alongside his role at WPIC, Bhavick advises financial and professional services firms, and is a retained advisor to several family offices.
Wade Napier, Research Analyst
Wade joined WPIC following nine years within equity research on the sell-side with Avior Capital Markets. He was a rated analyst across his coverage spectrum, which included South Africa’s PGM miners in addition to the Packaging and Chemicals sectors.
Wade started out his career as a civil engineer in the water sector where he got his first exposure to the PGM sector, having undertaken a water balance at Lonmin’s Springs refinery in 2012. He completed his MBA through Imperial College London and is a CFA charterholder.
Amanda Palmer, Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Amanda is responsible for providing administrative support to the CEO as well as organising WPIC events. She is also the office manager.
Amanda joined WPIC from Bain & Company, where she supported the European Head of Private Equity and partners in the Global Oil and Gas and Financial Services practices. Amanda was also responsible for arranging various offsites and events in Europe.
Prior to this, Amanda has 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry in investment banking, corporate broking and investor relations. Her roles included event organisation and roadshow management in the UK and internationally, for high profile, blue chip clients.
Haru Sakai, Finance Manager
Haru works on all aspects of WPIC’s finances, including budgeting, payments, cash flow/banking, management reporting and statutory reporting.
Haru has over 15 years of experience working in finance across a broad range of companies, from the “Big 4” to a small not-for-profit arts organisation. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW in 2008 and achieved her Fellow Chartered Accountant status in 2019.
Haru began her career at KPMG, specialising in providing audit and advisory services to clients in the financial services sector, before moving to work for a large multinational bank. More recently, prior to joining WPIC, she ran her own jewellery business alongside working for a not-for-profit jewellery association.
Yvonne Xu, Manager, China Investor Development
Yvonne joined WPIC in 2023 after serving at the world’s largest diamond supplier De Beers Group, based in Shanghai. At De Beers, she was responsible for holistic event project management, as well as several brand marketing related projects. At WPIC, Yvonne works to identify opportunities for young investor engagement and to improve the quality of marketing communication and media initiatives, especially Shanghai Platinum Week. She also focuses on strengthening the Council’s visual presentation in the Chinese market.
After graduating from university with a degree in business management, Yvonne’s previous marketing roles have included an emphasis on social media account management and film.
Sophia Zeng, APAC lead, Product Partnerships
Sophia joined WPIC from Advantage Partners, Inc., a Japanese private equity investment firm, where she covered investor relations, from fundraising to daily communications with buyout fund investors.
After graduating from universities in China and Japan, Sophia started her career at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Tokyo, and worked on JPY clearing product/service sales to financial institutions (FIs) in EMEA, followed by relationship management for FIs in China and southeast Asia for over 4 years.
Wenbin Zhang, Research Lead, China Platinum Market
Wenbin joined WPIC in April 2022 from Xiamen Gold Co. and is now research lead for the China platinum market. His responsibilities include covering China demand, creating multi-media content and providing investor education/training in the Chinese market.
Wenbin has over 10 years’ experience in China’s precious metals industry, including responsibility for market development, investment strategy, investor education and public relations. He has developed good relationships with a number of commercial banks, exchanges, industry associations and the related media. As a contributor and columnist for industry media, he has also participated in a number of regional precious metals industry projects in China.
Trevor Raymond, Chief Executive Officer
Trevor Raymond has been a member of the leadership team at WPIC since its launch in 2014, originally leading the organisation’s global Research and Investor Development team before being appointed CEO in 2022.
Trevor is a precious metals specialist with over 30 years’ experience in the equity and metals markets, with deep experience in gold and platinum mining companies, including roles in corporate finance, marketing and executive leadership.
He joined WPIC from Anglo American Platinum, where he led the company’s commodity research and market development in London. Prior to this, Trevor was Anglo American Platinum’s Head of Investor Relations in South Africa.
Underpinning his career has been a commitment to ensuring investors can access the insights necessary to make informed investment decisions and then act, using the most appropriate investment products.
David Badham, Chief Administrative Officer
David leads finance, operations, HR, legal and governance for WPIC. He joined from Cass Business School where he was the Deputy Director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre, leading sponsor relationships. He also authored research on social impact investing for the Financial Times.
David was the Head of Investment Marketing for Europe at the World Gold Council until 2013. His responsibilities included the development of global distribution channels for research.
In a 25 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland, David’s roles included Head of Business Strategy, Marketing and Communications at the bank’s global wholesale banking and markets division, based in London.
Weibin Deng, Regional Head of Asia Pacific
Weibin, our regional head of Asia Pacific, is based in Shanghai and leads his team with particular focus on China and Japan markets. He joined WPIC as Country Head of China in 2017 from BNP Paribas, where he had served for eight years in both Singapore and Shanghai and played a significant role in their development of their commodity franchise in China.
Prior to BNP Paribas, Weibin worked for a number of leading firms in New York and Singapore, specialising in global commodity markets. These included JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Deloitte & Touche and Bank of America. He has 16 years of professional experience in business development, risk management, product control, accounting and operations.
Edward Sterck, Director of Research
Edward leads research for WPIC.
Prior to joining WPIC, Edward spent over 15 years in sell-side equity research, focussing on the mining sector, including coverage of the major global platinum producers and diversified miners. As well as research on mining equities, Edward undertook supply/demand analysis for platinum, diamonds and uranium.
Most recently, he was a highly-ranked Mining Analyst and Director at BMO Capital Markets, covering more than 40 different stocks during his tenure.
Edward brings extensive capital markets experience to WPIC with a career that has also spanned interest rate derivatives trading and advisory roles on corporate fund raising. He studied geology at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, and is a fellow of the Geological Society.
Vicki Barker, Investor Communications Manager
Vicki researches, writes and publishes WPIC investor communications, including its popular 60 Seconds in Platinum articles, across all digital channels.
An experienced corporate communications professional, Vicki started her career as an analyst with a major UK bank. Her first communications role was with the then 250-listed AB Ports, where she was Investor Relations Manager. More recently, she was Communications Manager for the infrastructure and real estate asset management firm, InfraRed Capital Partners.
Michelle Bosman, Product Partnerships Manager
Michelle is the Product Partnerships manager for WPIC’s North American and European relationships.
Michelle has over 12 years of professional experience in sales, marketing and business partnership building, based in South Africa and the UK. She has worked in one of the world’s largest FMCG companies developing sales strategies, building and guiding a team to greater success, and developing/growing long term business partnerships. She has also worked at corporations focusing on the finer detail of aluminium, precious metals and mining, with business partners across the world.
Conan Chitham, Legal (consultant)
Conan oversees WPIC legal matters, including our contractual dealings with third parties and in relation to intellectual property.
Conan is an experienced commercial lawyer with a variety of international experience, including in the global general counsel’s office of one of the big four accountants. He has acted for a number of clients in the finance and investment sphere, including other precious metals, and some of the world’s biggest international entities in industry and e-commerce. He was previously a partner at two leading London law firms, Mishcon de Reya and Withers.
Alongside his role at WPIC, Conan continues to act as consultant counsel for a number of businesses in relation to their technology, commercial and complex project work.
Brendan Clifford, Head of Institutional Distribution
Brendan is responsible for the interface between the WPIC and investors to ensure data, research and insights meet the needs of different investor groups. Identifying investors whose mandate and risk profiles are most suited to an allocation to platinum and establishing optimal two-way communication underpins the WPIC Investor Development programme.
Brendan joined WPIC from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) where he was an analyst in the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection division responsible for sourcing, researching and investing in long-only equity fund managers.
Prior to this, Brendan was an assistant fund manager with Dublin-based Merrion Capital, responsible for co-managing three equity value funds.
Jacob Hayhurst-Worthington, Associate Research Analyst
Jacob adds to the team’s operational knowledge of the metals and mining business, having commenced his career as a mine engineer. His previous positions include First Quantum Minerals and Endeavour Mining, where he had a specific focus on precious and base metals operations in Africa. His most recent role was as a Group Mine Engineer for Endeavour Mining, a gold producer.
Jacob holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter and has completed a master’s in Metal & Energy Finance at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.
Katharine Hosmer, Financial Controller
Katharine is responsible for the finance function of WPIC. She has over 13 years of experience working in Financial Controller, CFO and Finance Director roles for international organisations, and has been CIMA qualified since 2007.
Katharine started her career in Procurement at IBM. From there she moved to Visa where she decided the accountancy route was for her. Her career has taken her through the Pharmaceuticals, Media and Market Research sectors, working for companies within the Omnicom and Lumanity Groups. Latterly she moved back into the financial services sector, in commodities, working for an energy brokerage firm.
Ja Yoon Kim, Business Analyst, Asia Pacific
Ja Yoon joined WPIC in the China office in 2024, after completing his master’s degree in Development Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he focused on Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. He works on marketing cooperation and investor development activities, such as digital management for WPIC and Shanghai Platinum Week, and report localisation. Ja Yoon also collaborates with various agencies to assist WPIC in growing in the Korean market.
Ja Yoon gained experience in investment banking as an intern while studying at UC Berkeley and New York University Shanghai Division. His internship involved market research, data analysis, and investor management.
Grace Lin, Investor Development Manager, Asia
Grace joined WPIC in 2020 from a Beijing legal firm where her responsibilities included legal research and proofreading. She is now managing the investor development business in Asia including operations of WPIC social media accounts, media relationship and Shanghai Platinum Week as well as engagements in the domestic platinum industrial events. Grace is also responsible for assisting our Asian product partners with marketing and promotion.
After graduating from college in the United States, Grace started her career in an investment management firm, where she focused on marketing and investor relations.
Bhavick Morjaria, Technology (consultant)
Bhavick is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects at WPIC, including strategy, infrastructure, cyber security and telecoms.
A technology consultant with over 20 years’ experience, Bhavick worked at Deutsche Bank and Oracle Corporation before moving to Bain & Company, the global management consultancy. While at Bain, Bhavick led the Partner support team in London and supported the firm’s Munich and Zürich offices.
Alongside his role at WPIC, Bhavick advises financial and professional services firms, and is a retained advisor to several family offices.
Wade Napier, Research Analyst
Wade joined WPIC following nine years within equity research on the sell-side with Avior Capital Markets. He was a rated analyst across his coverage spectrum, which included South Africa’s PGM miners in addition to the Packaging and Chemicals sectors.
Wade started out his career as a civil engineer in the water sector where he got his first exposure to the PGM sector, having undertaken a water balance at Lonmin’s Springs refinery in 2012. He completed his MBA through Imperial College London and is a CFA charterholder.
Amanda Palmer, Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Amanda is responsible for providing administrative support to the CEO as well as organising WPIC events. She is also the office manager.
Amanda joined WPIC from Bain & Company, where she supported the European Head of Private Equity and partners in the Global Oil and Gas and Financial Services practices. Amanda was also responsible for arranging various offsites and events in Europe.
Prior to this, Amanda has 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry in investment banking, corporate broking and investor relations. Her roles included event organisation and roadshow management in the UK and internationally, for high profile, blue chip clients.
Haru Sakai, Finance Manager
Haru works on all aspects of WPIC’s finances, including budgeting, payments, cash flow/banking, management reporting and statutory reporting.
Haru has over 15 years of experience working in finance across a broad range of companies, from the “Big 4” to a small not-for-profit arts organisation. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW in 2008 and achieved her Fellow Chartered Accountant status in 2019.
Haru began her career at KPMG, specialising in providing audit and advisory services to clients in the financial services sector, before moving to work for a large multinational bank. More recently, prior to joining WPIC, she ran her own jewellery business alongside working for a not-for-profit jewellery association.
Yvonne Xu, Manager, China Investor Development
Yvonne joined WPIC in 2023 after serving at the world’s largest diamond supplier De Beers Group, based in Shanghai. At De Beers, she was responsible for holistic event project management, as well as several brand marketing related projects. At WPIC, Yvonne works to identify opportunities for young investor engagement and to improve the quality of marketing communication and media initiatives, especially Shanghai Platinum Week. She also focuses on strengthening the Council’s visual presentation in the Chinese market.
After graduating from university with a degree in business management, Yvonne’s previous marketing roles have included an emphasis on social media account management and film.
Sophia Zeng, APAC lead, Product Partnerships
Sophia joined WPIC from Advantage Partners, Inc., a Japanese private equity investment firm, where she covered investor relations, from fundraising to daily communications with buyout fund investors.
After graduating from universities in China and Japan, Sophia started her career at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Tokyo, and worked on JPY clearing product/service sales to financial institutions (FIs) in EMEA, followed by relationship management for FIs in China and southeast Asia for over 4 years.
Wenbin Zhang, Research Lead, China Platinum Market
Wenbin joined WPIC in April 2022 from Xiamen Gold Co. and is now research lead for the China platinum market. His responsibilities include covering China demand, creating multi-media content and providing investor education/training in the Chinese market.
Wenbin has over 10 years’ experience in China’s precious metals industry, including responsibility for market development, investment strategy, investor education and public relations. He has developed good relationships with a number of commercial banks, exchanges, industry associations and the related media. As a contributor and columnist for industry media, he has also participated in a number of regional precious metals industry projects in China.