Samuel Chambers / Export Broker
Sam studied at Griffith University where he achieved his Bachelor in International Business and Master of Commerce attaining an Academic Excellence award in 2012. His first foray in to the commodities business came in January 2013 where he worked as a wheat agent in Jakarta, Indonesia, which quickly grew to include a number of other grain and oilseeds. In 2015 he relocated back to his home of Australia where he took a job working for INTL FCStone (StoneX) as an export cash broker. In this role he was given some exceptional exposure to market intelligence, cash market trade flows, derivatives and hedging strategies. During his tenure, Sam recognised the need to bring on more origins and grew the business from only sourcing from Australia to include North and South America, the Black Sea, the Indian sub-continent and parts of Asia for more specialised commodities. In 2021 Sam started SMAC Markets which has built annualised volumes in excess of 1MMT.
Olga Kondratenko / Export Broker
Olga is a cash commodity broker with 14 years of professional experience in sourcing and supply chain management. She began her career path in agricultural commodity trading in 2005 at Alfred C. Toepfer International Ukraine in the supply chain department and, in 2008, continued her development in originating and export trading at a subsidiary of CHS Inc. in Ukraine. There, she contributed to setting up the purchasing function and processes for the newly opened office in Ukraine. In 2011, she took a job at VAIT Ukraine as a senior trader and successfully ran a sourcing program for grains and oilseeds in deep water and small ports.
After relocating to Sweden in 2016, Olga worked for Swedish publicly listed companies such as Epiroc AB, managing industrial product category sourcing, and Billerud AB, focusing on the export of paper commodities worldwide.
In 2023, Olga joined SMAC Markets to enhance cooperation between Ukrainian companies and European and overseas markets.
Olga holds a Master's Degree in International Relations and speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian, and Swedish
Kelly Teng / Head of Operations
Kelly Teng is a Trade Operations and Assistant with over 23 years of experience in Tech Industry and Logistics. She studied Bachelor Science of Degree in Business Information Systems in Malaysia and Specialist Diploma in Supply Chain Management in Singapore.
Outside of work, she enjoys running, reading, and spending time with family.