Board-level execution & advisory across metals, biofuels, critical minerals, and M&A.
Zug, Switzerland · Founded 2018
What mandates buy is the depth of the underlying execution capability — four decades of cross-border commodity operations, applied today as an institutional platform under Swiss law.
About
Metal Supply Experts GmbH provides board-level execution and advisory across the full commodity transaction lifecycle — strategy, supply chain structuring, trade finance, regulatory compliance, and commercial execution.
Engagements span port operators, industrial holdings, specialty manufacturers, trading houses, and investment vehicles across Western Europe, CEE, Central Asia, and the Americas.
Founded 2018 in Zug, Switzerland, MSE operationalises a founder execution capability since 1991 across non-ferrous and ferrous metals, primary and engineered products, terminal logistics, trade finance, and critical metals programs.
The firm operates through a selective network of senior advisors and execution specialists — trade finance, logistics, regulatory, technical, legal — engaged on a mandate basis. Execution does not depend on a single person.
Focus areas: sustainable fuels, industrial metals and critical materials, and cross-border transactions in commodity-linked industries.
Mandates are structured case-by-case — retainer advisory, project-based execution, or commission agency under Swiss law. No standard packages. Minimum threshold reflects the complexity of the work undertaken.
Deposit evaluation, fund architectures, Swiss-law investment structures. Southern Europe, Central Asia, EMEA.
Explore →Primary metals to engineered products. Value chain architecture, LME management, vertical integration.
Explore →Cement, clinker, aggregates. EU market entry, CBAM carbon reporting, multimodal corridor design.
Explore →Fuel ethanol, bioethanol, SAF. ISCC EU certification, RED III compliance, GHG pathway structuring.
Explore →Critical minerals, REE, lithium, gallium, tungsten. Non-China supply chains, bankable offtakes, vertical integration.
Explore →Ceramic micropowders, zeolites, specialty materials. Commercial integration for EU-based producers.
Explore →Port management, multimodal logistics, collateral control, and commodity financing through physical asset infrastructure.
Explore →Swiss trading house architecture. SPV structuring, bankable offtakes, trade finance, compliance, traceability.
Explore →Our Approach
Mandate Examples
Indicative engagements drawn from the mandate book. The full record remains confidential under client agreements.
ESG & Traceability
As CBAM, EU supply chain due diligence, and ISCC EU certification reshape the economics of commodity trade, MSE structures mandates with embedded sustainability credentials — from origin verification to carbon-adjusted settlement. Compliance is no longer a reporting layer. It is an executable part of the transaction.
Lot-level origin tracking embedded into shipping and customs documentation. Audit-ready MRV aligned to ISCC EU, ASI, and EU Union Database requirements. Certification coverage from producer to point of delivery — presented as a legally recognised sustainability declaration.
Scope 1–3 carbon accounting per shipment with CBAM-compliant embedded reporting. Verified emissions reduction documentation and carbon intensity certificates for EU import declarations. Route and modal optimisation for measured, auditable footprint reduction across each transaction leg.
Tokenised settlement architecture linking physical commodity flows to on-chain ESG data. Near-real-time payment settlement with KYC/KYB/AML compliance aligned to Swiss FINMA, FATF, and OFAC frameworks. ESG metadata travels with — not after — the transaction record.
Founder & Director
Founder & Managing Director
30+ years, $4.5B P&L directed, ~8% of global primary aluminium flows. C-level career at a Top-3 global primary aluminium producer (Zug) — Director of Sales & Marketing, General Director of the Trading House, COO/Director SCM. OTIF raised to 96%, DSO reduced to 38 days, demurrage and detention cut 40%, $65–67M annual margin uplift through end-to-end supply chain and multimodal logistics restructuring across EMEA, Asia, and the Americas.
Full commodity spectrum since 1991. Cross-border execution in non-ferrous and ferrous metals, steel and steel products, ores and concentrates, primary and engineered metal products — with parallel responsibility for multimodal logistics, supply chain architecture, quality management, and operational turnarounds on complex industrial cases.
Early track record built directing rare and strategic metals programs from Kazakhstan and the former Soviet Union — gallium and germanium full-cycle flows, volume trading of indium, tantalum, niobium, yttrium oxide, titanium sponge and alloys, and the magnet metals group — alongside ferrous and non-ferrous trade flows to Tier-1 counterparties across Japan, Europe, and North America.
Subsequently CEO of a major European building materials holding (Zurich, 2022–2024), leading international commercial strategy for one of Europe's largest cement producers. Founded MSE in 2018 to operationalise this capability under Swiss institutional form.
MSE Perspectives
From 1 July 2026, S&P Global Platts raises the minimum weighted-average GHG saving threshold for T2 FOB Rotterdam ethanol assessments from 64.3% to 75%. Product below the new floor faces exclusion from benchmark-grade trading flows or a structural pricing discount relative to compliant material.
Read Commentary →The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive phase on 1 January 2026. Liability accrues from day one — but the structure of obligations, the phase-in timeline, and the long-term cost trajectory are widely misunderstood by exporting firms operating outside the EU.
Read Commentary →4 MSE commentaries · 4 external publications in industry press
Contact
Initial enquiries are handled directly by the Managing Director. All discussions are treated as confidential.
Where complexity meets execution.
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