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Jon Queen, an investment and trading specialist, has worked with two leading Kyiv-based investment banks as Managing Director and Head of International Sales. Before transitioning to the energy and emissions trading space, he was a lawyer at Latham & Watkins LLP and a licensed securities representative at John Hancock Financial Services. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Economics and went on to obtain his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He then completed Cross-Disciplinary Program and Business and Public Policy at The Wharton School and later earned his MBA at Kyiv School of Economics. Jon Queen is currently a part of Amatex Capital, a private equity firm that places emphasis on the sectors responsible for gas and oil production, agriculture, production of value-added products, retail, and commercial real estate. The company is exploring strategic partnership with North American oil and gas companies to develop opportunities in Ukraine, offering critical value enhancement to the business platform. The strategic partnership being developed by Amatex and these companies joins together several of Ukraine’s experts in the oil and gas sector who have worked in technical field capacities for Shell, Chevron, Exxon, and many other international and local oil and gas specialists who have researched and are presently developing opportunities in Ukraine.