Matt Smith: Lead Oil Analyst - Americas
Emmanuel Belostrino: Senior Manager - Crude Oil Market Data
Ricardo Daza: Maritime Product Specialist
JP Lacouture: Principal Insight Analyst - LNG & Natural Gas
Address: 414 3 St SW, Calgary, AB T2P 1R2, Canada

Matt started his career at Royal Bank of Canada in London, England, working his way up to portfolio manager in the investment management team. He then moved to the US and spent 8 years as a Global Commodity Analyst at Schneider Electric / Summit Energy, before becoming Director of Commodity Research at ClipperData for 6 years, leading a team of analysts across a variety of energy commodities. Matt joined Kpler in September 2021 as Lead Analyst, Americas, and is focused on producing research and providing counsel to key clients on the energy market. Matt is regularly featured by media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, Wall Street Journal and Reuters.

JP joined Kpler in June 2024 and leads Kpler Insight’s analytics in North America, South America, and the Middle East. JP began his career as an upstream oil & gas analyst, creating economic models of individual oil and gas fields in Oceania and the US. He then spent nine years on the LNG & Natural Gas consulting team at Poten & Partners, where he worked on projects for myriad industry players. In particular, JP was heavily involved in commercial and market due diligence for nearly every North American LNG project. JP is based in New York and holds a BSc in Geological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.