Meet the Founder
Jilesh Kadi
Trader · Risk Manager · Investor · Builder
CFA Charterholder and GARP-certified risk professional with 18+ years across
LNG, natural gas, crude oil, power and environmental products — spanning the
trading desk, the risk function and model governance. Founder of
Maverick Investor, India's conflict-free personal-finance
platform, and Risk Maverick, a knowledge-first platform explaining commodity and
cross-asset risk for practitioners.
18+
Years across trading & risk desks
5
Energy & commodity complexes — LNG, gas, crude, power, carbon
3
Professional certifications — CFA · ERP · SCR
16
Knowledge hubs across markets & the risk toolkit
A Career Across Markets
From taking risk on the desk, to measuring and controlling it, to explaining it.
Early Career · Trader
Taking the risk
Traded physical and derivative energy and commodity markets — LNG,
natural gas, crude and power — learning price formation, the forward curve and the spreads
(crack, spark, basis) where real money is made and lost.
Price discoveryForward curvesSpreadsPhysical & financial
Mid Career · Risk Manager
Controlling the risk
Moved to the other side of the book: measuring market, credit and
counterparty risk with VaR and Expected Shortfall, designing hedge programmes, validating models
and setting the limits and governance that keep a trading business solvent.
VaR / ESHedge designModel validationLimits & governance
Present · Founder
Explaining the risk
Built Risk Maverick, a knowledge-first platform on commodity and
cross-asset risk for practitioners, alongside Maverick Investor — India's conflict-free
personal-finance platform. Both share one principle: credible, independent guidance.
Risk educationCross-assetIndependent
Skills & Expertise
The disciplines behind every article and tool on Risk Maverick.
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Market Risk & VaR
Parametric and historical VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress testing and volatility surfaces across a commodity book.
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Hedging & Derivatives
Futures, forwards, options, swaps and collars — designing hedges that hold up and measuring their effectiveness.
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Credit & Counterparty Risk
CCR, CVA, netting and collateral, CDS and the wrong-way risk that defines commodity counterparties.
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Commodity & Energy Markets
Deep coverage of LNG, natural gas, crude & refined, power and carbon — the physical flows and the risks they carry.
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Frameworks & Governance
Risk limits, model validation, and the Basel / FRTB frameworks that capitalise market and counterparty risk.
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Professional Certifications
CFA Charterholder; GARP-certified Energy Risk Professional (ERP) and Sustainability & Climate Risk (SCR).
Risk knowledge should be clear, credible and conflict-free — grounded in authoritative data and
explained by someone who has sat on both the trading and the risk side of the desk.
The principle behind Risk Maverick.
