Taimuraz Badtiev has over 20 years of experience in oil and LNG trading and shipping, holding senior commercial roles with leading industry players across the Far East, Middle East, and Europe. He has been instrumental in establishing and shaping LNG commercial functions at integrated producing projects, a European utility, a major global bank, and an largest independent shipbroking house.

Over his career, Taimuraz has concluded and managed LNG supply and shipping contracts, ranging from short to long term and totalling well over 5 billion USD in value. He also pioneered early LNG shipping optimisation practices and played a key role in launching the LNG time charter party framework that has since become widely adopted across the market.

Most recently, he established and led the LNG business for EnBW, Germany’s third-largest utility, successfully building it from the ground up.

Taimuraz holds an MSc in Energy, Trade and Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) and an Executive MBA from London Business School. 

Bryan has extensive international experience in project finance, capital markets, and industry.

Prior to co-founding Fidartis LLC, he held various C-level leadership positions at CleanBay Renewables Inc., a developer of utility-scale bioconversion facilities in the U.S. that convert poultry litter into downstream energy products (and associated environmental attributes), alongside a natural fertilizer product designed to meet the controlled-release ISO standard and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to raw manure and synthetic fertilizers.

In addition, he was an early-stage investor and led international business development for Globomass Limited, developing biogas projects in the Balkans and Southeast Asia. He is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Habitat Energy LLC.

Earlier in his career, Bryan served as Managing Director of the Worsham Group, a family office focused on private investments in real estate, and was a co-founder and director of Asha Zuri Participações, which funded the development of 3,500 low-income housing units in southeastern Brazil. He has also held executive roles at Coloplast, a healthcare products manufacturer, and at GMAC’s ResCap mortgage lending platform, where he worked in the International Business Group covering Europe, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and India. He began his career in the accounting department of DuPont’s subsidiary in Spain.

Bryan holds a BA (Hons) in International Business and German from the European Business School in London, and an MSc in Logistics, Trade and Finance from City University’s Bayes Business School, London.

Sam Turney has over 20 years of experience in LNG marketing and trading activities on behalf of numerous LNG projects across the globe.

After several roles in power project development, on behalf of BP, Sam led to conclusion the LNG supply arrangements for the first independent integrated LNG re-gasification and power generation facility (BBE-BBG) to be developed in Europe resulting in the launch of Atlantic Train 2.

Subsequently, he assumed numerous lead commercial roles for both the Egypt LNG Damietta project and Atlantic LNG. On behalf of the North West Shelf (NWS) venture he led all price review activity successfully concluding numerous long-term contract re-negotiations. He subsequently led the NWS short-term sales activities, extending market reach, orchestrating a number of new mid-term sales campaigns, which collectively resulted in incremental sales of over 15 million tonnes.
More recently Sam, developed and implemented the roll out of Angola LNG’s first term sales campaign, implemented to mitigate the risks and exposure of the spot LNG market. Successfully negotiated Angola LNG’s first mid-term Sales & Purchase Agreement and subsequently went on to lead and conclude the majority of all of Angola LNG mid-term sales.

Alina Azizova is a maritime specialist with over 20 years of international experience in LNG, LPG, and crude oil shipping, operations and marketing. She has led major portfolios, negotiated complex TCPs, MSAs, SPAs, optimised bunkering strategies, and delivered multimillion-dollar efficiency gains, including $27 million in additional annual revenue through fleet performance. She has arranged over 160 LNG and 75 crude cargoes annually for Asia-Pacific clients.

Alina also brings strong experience in maritime event management, having developed and led 15 international conferences and forums for shipowners, LNG and crude oil buyers, and senior industry leaders, enhancing corporate visibility and stakeholder engagement.

Alina holds an MSc in Maritime and Shipping Management, the Law of the Sea, and Asian Studies, along with professional certifications in logistics, maritime law, chartering, HSE, and Continuous Improvement from institutions including Shell, Lloyd’s Maritime Academy, the Cambridge Academy of Transport, and the Oxford Princeton Programme.