
SmarterMarkets™
SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.
Latest episodes

Mar 16, 2024 • 41min
Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 1 | Sandeep Roy Choudhury, Director, VNV Advisory
This week, we kick off our new series, Carbon Frontiers 2024. Throughout this series, we’ll be talking with the market practitioners who’ve kept the carbon markets and decarbonization efforts moving forward to better understand how they’re learning from the mistakes of the past, adapting to the realities of the present, and developing the markets, technologies, and strategies for a net-zero future.
We begin our series with Sandeep Roy Choudhury, Director of VNV Advisory Services. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Sandeep to discuss the impact of the intense media criticism last year on carbon emissions projects and how he’s working to continue to use carbon financing to fund and develop carbon mitigation and adaptation projects.

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Mar 9, 2024 • 39min
Setting Course Episode 10 | Carrie Jaquith, Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies
We close out our Setting Course series this week with Carrie Jaquith, Global Head of Digital Product at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Carrie to discuss the course we’ll likely take in integrating AI and large language models into our daily lives – and the gaps that will need to be bridged between us humans and our new technology.

Mar 2, 2024 • 46min
Setting Course Episode 9 | Oystein Kalleklev, CEO, Flex LNG & Avance Gas
This week on Setting Course, we welcome back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio Oystein Kalleklev, CEO of Flex LNG & Avance Gas. David Greely sits down with Oystein to discuss how the LNG and shipping industry is navigating the post-European energy crisis world and the new crisis in the Red Sea.

Feb 24, 2024 • 42min
Setting Course Episode 8 | Rob Dannenberg, Former Senior Official, CIA
On this week’s installment of Setting Course, we welcome Former Senior CIA Official Rob Dannenberg back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss the state of play in the geopolitical environment, the increasing role being played by disruptors, and what it means in a year of big elections around the world.

Feb 17, 2024 • 32min
Setting Course Episode 7 | Peter Fusaro, Founder, Wall Street Green Summit & Managing Director, ClimateTech at Weild & Co.
We continue our Setting Course series this week with Peter Fusaro, Founder of the Wall Street Green Summit and Managing Director of ClimateTech at Weild & Co. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely welcomes Peter back into the studio to discuss what’s been happening in ESG investing and carbon markets – and looking forward to the conversations happening at the 23rd annual Wall Street Green Summit.

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Feb 10, 2024 • 43min
Setting Course Episode 6 | Nat Bullard, Analyst, Speaker, and Advisor on Decarbonization
Nat Bullard, Analyst, Speaker, and Advisor on Decarbonization, discusses the state of decarbonization and highlights progress in clean energy, China's dominance in electric vehicles and renewable energy, the role of incentives and investment, and the need for imagination and forward-thinking in creating champion businesses and industries.

Feb 3, 2024 • 48min
Setting Course Episode 5 | Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets
On this week’s installment of our Setting Course series, we welcome Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent at Fastmarkets, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss what’s been happening in the metals markets that are critical to the energy transition including the nickel, copper, and lithium markets – as well as the increasing influence of geopolitics.

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Jan 27, 2024 • 37min
Setting Course Episode 4 | Bob Elliott, CEO & CIO, Unlimited
Bob Elliott, CEO & CIO at Unlimited, discusses the macro outlook for the economy and markets, the potential for a sharp recession, the performance of tech stocks, and the need to make institutional investment strategies accessible to individual investors.

Jan 20, 2024 • 45min
Setting Course Episode 3 | Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO, PrivacyCode.AI
We continue Setting Course this week with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode.AI. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely welcomes Michelle back into the studio to discuss privacy in the age of artificial intelligence.

Jan 13, 2024 • 39min
Setting Course Episode 2 | Dan Basse, Founder & President, AgResource Company
For the second installment of our Setting Course series, we welcome Dan Basse, Founder and President of AgResource Company, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Dan to discuss what’s happening in the agricultural and grains markets – and to what extent climate change and decarbonization are creating an agricultural transition alongside the energy transition.