Our Team

Paul Athanasiadis

International Director

Paul Athanasiadis, a partner for sales and development, is the International Director of Global Commodity Group Pty Ltd, an international trade, commodity, and consulting company, headquartered in Victoria, Australia. With over 30 years of experience, Paul brings a network of people to the table to close most deals he is presented with, be it buying or selling stock.

Paul has a passion to live and breathe what he does, and building relationships with everyone he meets. As his favourite motto is “Good Contracts Make Good Friends”.

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Michael Porter

Director

Michael Porter, Director for sales and development.

With over 30 years of experience, he brings exceptional expertise and knowledge to our projects including sourcing, joint ventures, licensing, and liquidation.

Michael lives outside of Boston, MA, USA. He is also the owner of Porter Associates, an international trade and consulting company.

Amy Hayes-Taylor

International Business Development Manager

Amy Hayes-Taylor, International Business Development Manager for Global Commodity Group Pty Ltd, an international trade, commodity, and consulting company, headquartered in Victoria, Australia. With over 10 years of experience, Amy brings a first-class attitude to maintaining wonderful relationships with all cliental and offers a diverse range of services to assure each deal is treated with a top-tier approach that ensures a sufficed client with each deal.

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Cory Towner

Australian Director

Cory Towner, partner for Australia’s sales and development, is the Australian Director of Global Commodity Group, an international trade and consulting company, headquartered in Victoria, Australia. With over 15 years of experience, he brings exceptional expertise to our projects.

Cory brings knowledge in commodity products, mining, licensing, joint ventures, liquidation, and sourcing, both domestically and internationally.

Danny Nguyen

Viet Nam Business Development Manager

Danny Nguyen is the Viet Nam Business Development Manager for Global Commodity Group base in the Southeast Asia’s region.

With over 15 years of experience and close relationship with Viet Nam Government projects he brings exceptional expertise to our projects come from the worlds of agriculture, metals, and fertilizers for their raw materials.

Danny is passionate about helping local clients transform their businesses by informed and insightful intelligence and advice that can bring new ideas and accelerate a company’s growth.

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Kevbe Oputu

International Business Development Manager

Mr Kevbe Oputu is the International Business Development Manager for Global Commodity Group covering the region of Africa, South Africa, and Congo.

Mr Oputu brings over 10 years’ experience in varied roles in Legal and Compliance, General Administration and Customer Service Management in companies from Europe and West Africa.

He is a good team player with experience in the sourcing of commodities.