Corporate Governance
The company is owned by the managers. The long-term objectives of the shareholders are aligned with the company’s operational and performance objectives. The philosophy is to have a lean, flexible structure with shared objectives.
The structure is managed by a board of directors approved by the shareholders. Each functional team responds to a manager with a high specific competence.
The company has its own code of ethics, which reflects the objectives and values each employee is required to uphold. Matija Barudzija
Partner, Co-Founder, CEO
Board of Directors, Member
Has more than 10 years of natural gas trading experience. In 2007, he joined ENOI S.p.A. in Milan and became the head of international sales and origination. In 2012 he co-founded ENET Energy SA in Lugano. The company was also the founding partner of Dufenergy Trading, a joint venture between Enet and Duferco. Mr. Barudžija has other business interests in the soft commodity processing and trading sector. Mr. Barudžija was trained at Merrill Lynch and holds a MSc in Finance from Bocconi University in Milan.
Michele Belcredi
Partner, Co-Founder, Trading and Logistics
Board of Directors, Member
Has 14 years of experience in the natural gas logistics, asset optimization and trading. He joined ENOI S.p.A. Milan in 2003 and became head of logistics. In 2010, he moved to Hong Kong to head the LNG unit. In 2012, he co-founded ENET Energy SA in Lugano as head of trading & logistics. He was crucial to the DufEnergy Trading SA development as the head of logistics department for natural gas and electricity, where he also served as a Member of the Board. Mr. Belcredi holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy.
Marco Passalia
Partner, Institutional Relations
Holds an MSc in Economics from University of Zurich and Lugano (USI)/Milan (Cattolica). He is Member of the Ticino regional Parliament since 2011, Co-founder and Secretary General of Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA) and for 10 years was active as Deputy Director of the Ticino Chamber of commerce. He is Board Member of several companies such as OFIMA (Swiss hydropower company), Coop. Case al Ponte (Swiss real estate company) and others.
Markus Wüstiner
Board of Directors, Member
Has more than 40 years of experience in banking (Swiss Bank Corporation, UBS, Credit Suisse, ZKB) in Basel, Geneva, London, New York and Zurich of which approx. 30 in the field of commodity and trade finance. Amongst different activities during his banking career mostly as relationship manager he was the head of the commodity finance department of Credit Suisse, Zurich and also established the commodity finance department at ZKB, Zurich. He is also Co-Founder of the Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA).
Matteo Zannier
Partner, Finance and Risk Management
Board of Directors, Member
Joined ENET Energy SA in October 2014. From 2004 to 2013, he was at the centre of competence for hedge fund investing of the Generali Group as head of multi arbitrage and head of event driven strategies, responsible for due diligence, selection and investing with the most talented alternative managers globally. He started his career in 1998, as an analyst and portfolio manager, collaborating with different private and professional investment companies, including family offices, asset managers and private banks where he also served as a member of the board of directors. Mr. Zannier holds a BA Hon., from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.