Director
Ittys Middle East LLC
Total years of experience :34 years, 3 Months
Helming a UAE-based corporate communications agency helping companies with media relations and content development.
Working with companies to develop and enhance websites.
Helping C-level executives to write columns in newspapers and magazines; write and distribute press releases
Helping senior executives to write social media articles.
ARGUS MEDIA, Dubai
• Covering oil products markets of gasoline, jet fuel, gasoil and fuel oil in the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean region.
• Helped launch the Argus Mideast Gulf and Indian Ocean (Amgio) Products report
• Writing trade-specific and market-moving news stories and market analyses for Amgio
• Staying on top of outright and differential pricing of products; freight rates and their relationships with product prices; finding explanations for the different levels; working on new regional benchmarks
• Regular meetings with refiners, traders, storage operators, shipping brokers to keep abreast of market developments
• Conceptualised and helped launch an annual two-day conference, the Argus Mideast Gulf and Indian Ocean Crude and Products Conference, in Dubai … identified resource persons and outlined topics for presentations at the conference.
• Active attendance in conferences, including the Middle East Petroleum and Gas Conference (MPGC
• Senior partner a two-member team surveying the Asia-Pacific coal market
• Assessed Asia-Pacific coal prices on a weekly basis for existing benchmarks and wrote market commentaries. Worked on developing new benchmarks
• Regularly monitored the coal market’s correlation with electricity and other fuel markets;
• Wrote regular feature articles and analyses for Argus business intelligence reports and also spot news stories on market-moving events and developments.
• Helped organize forums on the coal market in Singapore and India; worked on developing new benchmarks for the Asian coal markets.
• Regular attendance in trade conferences in India and Singapore.
• Wrote weekly price trend analyses reports on Asian markets for base oil, fertilizers & ammonia, and solvents
• Asia Shipping Editor: Wrote an Asian chemical tanker market report that analysed trends in the chcemical tanker freight market
• Wrote corporate and petrochemicals/base oils/shipping market news stories for ICIS News, a newswire for petrochemical markets
• Programme committee member representing the editorial for ICIS Base Oils Conferences in Asia and the Middle East markets. Attended ICIS Global Base Oils Conference 2007 in London, ICIS Base Oils Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur and ICIS Middle East Base Oils Conference 2007 in Dubai
• Supported sales staff by making presentations to market participants on market trends and on price-reporting methodologies
• Copy tasting, editing and rewriting stories for the business and foreign news desks.
• Wrote news stories, commentaries and features for foreign, business and entertainment sections of the TODAY newspaper.
• Wrote on corporate developments; storified annual reports
• Edited and laid out business and foreign news pages of the newspaper.
• Subbing news agency and correspondents’ copies
• Laying out of pages
• Subbing copies from news agencies, staff reporters and correspondents for the business and finance pullout of the newspaper.
• Designing and laying out of pages, mostly the commodities and stock markets pages.
• Reporting on pricing trends from the Coimbatore Stock Exchange
• Reporting on the plantation industry in South India
• Joined as trainee; confirmed sub-editor and staff reporter in Bangalore
• Correspondent for northern Karnataka based in Hubli … reporting on political, cultural, economic, business affairs
