matt watsonFounder and President, Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC
Matt is an operations executive with over 30 years of international and domestic experience, including various engineering, statistical consulting, and supply chain commodity management positions.
Matt spent the first 15 years of his career teaching and consulting in statistical methods across a number of industries. Matt then worked in the hard disk drive sector for 17 years, most of which he spent with Seagate Technology. It was there that Matt managed $540M in platinum and ruthenium positions.
Most recently, Matt led Tanaka’s North American R&D and marketing efforts for Tanaka America Inc. Matt helped lead deep penetration of the HDD market PVD targets, micro machined medical components and medial PGM wire product markets, and semiconductor/OLED wet chemistry markets.
Matt is now consulting once again, this time with Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC. This new consulting entity supports clients with precious metals market research, risk management, trading/hedging, and design and process savings. Matt has been working with clients in the hard disk drive sector, mining, connector, PVD target manufacturing sectors, and precious metals analysts. Matt has developed comprehensive three-way auto catalyst demand models and forecasts, and is a student of the apparent structural deficits in palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, and iridium.
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