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Claude Dauphin (10 June 1951 – 30 September 2015) was a French billionaire businessman and executive chairman of Trafigura Beheer BV, a company specialising in commodity trading (oil, metals, ores). He was a founding partner of Trafigura and its CEO for a time. In March 2013, his net wealth was estimated at $1 billion by Forbes.
- French
- Billionaire commodities trader
- 10 June 1951, Houlgate, France
- Executive chairman of Trafigura Beheer BV
Claude Dauphin (64) has been a leading figure in the global commodities trading industry for more than three decades. He founded Trafigura together with five partners in 1993, and as Chairman and CEO built the company into its current position as one of the world’s leading traders of oil, metals and minerals.
Sep 30, 2015 · LONDON (Reuters) - Claude Dauphin, the powerful and influential oil and metals trader who built Trafigura into one of the world's biggest commodity players, died on Wednesday after a battle...
Claude Dauphin, one of the most prominent commodities traders of his generation and founder of the Switzerland-based Trafigura, has died at the age of 64. The French citizen died in Bogotá,...
Sep 30, 2015 · LONDON— Claude Dauphin, the trading veteran who built Trafigura Beheer B.V. into one of the largest commodities players in the world, died Wednesday at age 64 after a year-long battle with...
Sep 30, 2015 · Claude Dauphin, the billionaire who co-founded and led Trafigura Beheer BV to become one of the world’s largest commodity traders, died Wednesday morning in hospital in Bogota after a battle...
Oct 8, 2015 · Claude Dauphin was a leading figure in the commodities trading industry for more than three decades, cutting his teeth with the godfather of modern commodities trading, Marc Rich, before...
