Christopher Kristufek

Director of Commodities and Energy
Trilateral Inc.
Berwyn, Illinois, United States

Christopher Kristufek is the Director of Commodities and Energy at Trilateral Inc, a firm specializing in risk management in sourcing and commodities. Chris's career has focused on commodity risk management for over 25 years. Chris first traded cattle options at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and then traded independently for 15 years. Chris now specializes in price risk management in the food industry. He builds, tests and implements models that reduce the emotional whipsaw of commodity procurement.

Chris's second passion is teaching which makes him an excellent corporate trainer for procurement teams managing commodity risk. In his training, he stresses the importance of the differences between financial and economic markets to better understand commodity price movement and breaking down complex topics to make them approachable.

Graduating Summa Cum Laude with an economics major and mathematics minor from Lake Forest College, Chris' quantitative skills have been invaluable in Trilateral's market data analysis. In addition, Chris also earned a CMT (Commodity Market Technician) designation in 2018.

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Presentation(s):

• Taking the Mystery and Stress out of Managing Commodity and Ingredient Costs Through Objective Price Risk Management Methods - 62

  Saturday, September 17, 2022
  2:45 PM – 3:45 PM PT

• Taking the Mystery and Stress out of Managing Commodity and Ingredient Costs Through Objective Price Risk Management Methods - 235

  Sunday, September 18, 2022
  9:45 AM – 10:45 AM PT