Colin Fenton

Colin Fenton is the co-founder and managing partner of Blacklight Research, LLC, and the senior managing director for commodities at 22V Research, LLC. He previously served as the global head of commodities research and chief commodities strategist for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he was a member of the ten-person global management committee overseeing approximately 1,000 research analysts worldwide. 

On the buy side, Colin founded Curium Capital Advisors, LLC, a registered investment adviser that he sold to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2010. Curium served as a subadvisor to hedge funds run by Soros Fund Management, Makena Capital, Raptor Capital, and other firms. Prior to founding Curium, Colin was the managing director responsible for commodities and cyclical industries at Stanley Druckenmiller’s hedge fund, Duquesne Capital Management, LLC. Colin also worked for two years as the Chief Intelligence Officer for Ospraie Management, LLC, then the world’s largest commodity hedge fund by AUM.  

Colin began his Wall Street career in 1996 as an original member of the commodities research group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Before joining Goldman, Colin was the research assistant to Ambassador Chester A. Crocker, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and then-Chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace.  

Colin holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he is presently serving a three-year term on the Board of Advisors for the MSFS program. He was previously a Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in the Center on Global Energy Policy. Colin earned his A.B. in early modern history at Princeton University.