Risk Management & Business Development
A boutique advisory firm serving the world's most demanding commodity trading organisations with bespoke risk strategies and sustainable growth frameworks.
Discover RedBrake RBRedBrake is a privately held management consultancy operating at the intersection of commodity trading, risk engineering, and strategic growth. We serve a select clientele — physical traders, trading houses, and emerging commodity desks — who require a trusted, discreet partner.
Our name reflects our core conviction: that sustainable performance in commodity markets is not about eliminating risk, but about knowing precisely when to apply control. We help our clients move fast — and stop on demand.
Headquartered in Europe with a global reach, we maintain a deliberately small footprint. Every mandate receives the undivided attention of our senior team, with no delegation to junior analysts.
Years Experience
Mandates Delivered
Senior-Led Engagements
Two integrated disciplines, delivered as a unified mandate or independently, tailored to your specific market position and ambitions.
We design, implement and continuously refine risk frameworks that reflect the real-world complexity of physical and derivatives commodity markets. Our approach is quantitative, but our judgement is human.
From market and counterparty risk to operational and regulatory exposure, we map what is hidden and build the controls to contain it — without constraining the business.
We identify, structure and activate growth pathways for commodity trading businesses at every stage — from nascent desks seeking their first institutional counterparties to established houses entering new geographies or asset classes.
We bring a network built over decades across trading houses, banks, producers and end-consumers to accelerate what would otherwise take years.
Beyond risk and business development, we advise trading firm leadership on governance, organisational design, and the operational infrastructure required to scale a commodity trading business responsibly and durably.
Engagements range from single-session strategic reviews to multi-year retained advisory relationships, structured entirely around the client's needs.
We run fewer engagements so we can give each one everything. Our clients are not ticket numbers. Every mandate shapes our own reputation.
Our value comes from honest assessment, not reassurance. We tell our clients what they need to hear — respectfully, precisely, and in time to act.
Commodity markets are relationship-driven and reputation-sensitive. We operate with the confidentiality of a trusted counsel, not a vendor.
Grains · Oilseeds · Softs · Sugar · Cocoa · Coffee
Dry Bulk · Tanker · LNG Shipping · FFA
OTC Structures · Exchange-Traded · Hybrid Instruments
Enquiries are handled directly by our principals. We respond to all qualified introductions within one business day. All communications are treated with complete confidentiality.
We engage on a retained or project basis. Every engagement begins with a confidential introductory conversation, with no obligation on either side. We are selective about the mandates we accept — not out of exclusivity, but because we only commit when we are confident we can add real value.