Joel Rubano is an energy commodity trader with twenty years of experience at merchant trading companies, deregulated utility subsidiaries, a hedge fund, and an international oil producer. He has been responsible for hedging the financial exposures of a multi-billion dollar asset portfolio and has speculatively traded oil, natural gas, coal and electricity on an institutional scale.
In 2016, he published Trader Construction Kit, a practical guide to developing the skills and techniques employed by professional traders at financial institutions. In 2017 Mr. Rubano published A Comparison of Current Academic and Industry Pedagogies for Developing Traders on SSRN.
In 2018 he founded Instradev, LLC (a portmanteau of Institutional Trader Development), a consultancy specializing in academic and industry trader development. Mr. Rubano has developed and presented multi-day industry training courses and lectured undergraduate, masters, & MBA classes on trading and risk-management topics.
In addition to teaching at Babson College, Rubano is a Lecturer at the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities and Energy Management at the CU Denver Business School, where he developed and teaches the Masterclass in Commodity Trading & Hedging and the Commodity Trading graduate class. He is also an Associated Fellow of the Erasmus Commodity & Trade Centre at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
Mr. Rubano holds a BS in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in Finance from University of Massachusetts Lowell.
