Mr Lionel Semonin | Chief Executive Officer
Four Elements Capital

Lionel Semonin is the founder of Singapore based Four Elements Capital and the portfolio manager of its flagship “Earth Element” commodity fund. The Fund is a long-short systematic fund based on both fundamental and market analytics, the fund invests, through futures, in up to 30 commodities across Energy, Metals and Agriculture. Prior to this Lionel was Global Head of Commodity Investor Derivatives at BNP Paribas and before that had a similar role at JPMorgan where he spent more than 10 years. In particular, Lionel’s role encompassed setting up and managing a number of systematic commodity strategies. Lionel held other senior positions during his career including trading, structuring and marketing on different asset classes. Lionel is a CFA charter holder (2001) and has an MSc (Applied Mathematics and Telecommunications) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland (1995). From 1991 to 1993 Lionel also worked as a teaching assistant.