TRAFIGURA’S founder and executive chairman, Claude Dauphin, passed away yesterday in a hospital in Bogota, Colombia after a hard-fought battle with cancer, the company said.
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.
“Claude will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and vast network of business partners, as well as by us all,” said Jeremy Weir, CEO Trafigura. “We owe him an enormous debt of gratitude for a career full of achievement and entrepreneurial endeavour and for his energy, inspirational leadership, generosity of spirit, humility and humour.”
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