• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Lyon Hardgrave

VAKT Global Ltd.

Vice President, Business and Product Development

Lyon Hardgrave is Vice President for Business and Product Development at VAKT in London. Prior to joining VAKT, Mr. Hardgrave spent five years as a Director in the oil trading group at Glencore Ltd in Stamford, CT. He previously assisted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its drafting of commodities regulations after spending nearly a decade trading oil and natural gas options for UBS, Hartree, and Société Générale. Mr. Hardgrave holds an engineering degree from Rice University and an MBA in finance from Wharton.

Sessions With Lyon Hardgrave

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 05:00pm - 05:45pm (CST) / -

    Trading & Risk Management: Blockchain & beyond
    Panel Finance/Trading/Risk Management Technology/Innovation

    Financial services provide clear cases of the effective use of blockchain to reduce costs, improve transparency, increase liquidity, and ultimately improve markets. Can blockchain do the same for energy trading in all its forms, and ultimately risk management? Can the industry work together to create secure platforms for deal validation, risk management, compliance monitoring? Can blockchain technology handle confirmation, trade reconciliation, and chain of custody documentation to transform global markets?