We Bring Clarity to Complex Challenges
Venarion Commodities is a management consulting firm dedicated to helping metals and mining leaders uncover and turn critical market data into strategic advantage and lasting commercial success.
We stay close to your business so market signals don’t get missed, misread, or acted on too late.
Translating Intelligence into Actionable Strategies
Our clients trust us to strengthen organisational and commercial performance, guide market positioning, and inform investment and expansion decisions.
We act as an ongoing external sounding board, pressure-testing decisions before they become expensive commitments.
​Enabling Sustainable Growth Across the Markets We Serve
Our work enables boards, executive management, investors and owners to navigate market volatility, accelerate growth, and develop the talent required for long-term success and organizational resilience.
We help you make steady, defensible decisions quarter after quarter, especially when markets and competitors stop behaving.
Mining companies
Refineries
Primary smelters
Secondary smelters
Integrated producers
Rolling Mills
Extruders
Scrap processors
Institutional investors
Family industrial groups
Private Equity
Industrial holding groups
Our Core Services Offering
Market Intelligence
We deliver independent market research and commercial intelligence to identify new customers and support strategic decisions. Our data-driven analysis, free from institutional bias, evaluates market dynamics, competitive positioning, value propositions, and distribution channels, with clear recommendations aligned to quality and sustainability requirements.
We continuously monitor your markets so you don’t have to re-learn them from scratch every time conditions change.
Strategy
We work with boards and management teams to develop go-to-market strategies, identify growth opportunities from structural market shifts, and define decarbonisation and low-carbon commercial pathways. Our advisory covers strategic alignment, non-executive board support, partnership identification, and the design of resilient raw material, scrap, and closed-loop offtake structures.
We stay involved as strategy meets reality, adjusting direction as prices, regulation and competitors evolve.
Investment Advisory
We support investment and strategic decisions through opportunity assessment, growth enabler analysis, and strategic positioning, underpinned by end-to-end market feasibility studies and commercial and market due diligence. Our work includes new market entry and acquisition analysis, low-carbon product market valuation and pricing strategy, and product attractiveness assessments to inform capital allocation and entry timing.
We help you identify what actually drives growth, and position investments so risks, and upside are understood before capital is committed.
Performance Enablement
We work with market intelligence and commercial teams to build capability and improve performance through a deeper understanding of pricing mechanisms, negotiation dynamics, and market context. Our support focuses on embedding best marketing and positioning practices, strengthening knowledge of value chains and competitive landscapes, and helping teams maximise the impact of consulting engagements and ongoing project work, including the setup and development of effective market intelligence functions.
​Commercial, operational and strategic tasks become clearer, with fewer avoidable mistakes, by working alongside your team on real decisions.
Founder
Josko Kandido MBA
Josko Kandido is the founder and Manging Director of Venarion Commodities, an independent advisory focused on metals and mining markets, with particular expertise across the entire aluminium value chain, base metals, and energy transition materials.
He advises producers, manufacturers, traders, investors, and financial institutions on market strategy, investment decisions, pricing dynamics, and global supply chains across metals markets, and works closely with senior decision-makers across the industry on complex commercial and strategic questions.
Prior to establishing Venarion, Josko held senior consulting roles at Fastmarkets, where he delivered advisory projects for leading companies across the global metals and mining industry.
Over the course of his career, he has contributed to advisory engagements across multiple regions, supporting decision-makers across the aluminium value chain as well as broader metals markets including copper, nickel, cobalt, magnesium, and specialty alloys.
Josko holds an MBA from IE Business School.
Venarion was established to provide independent, senior-level advisory grounded in rigorous market analysis and deep expertise across global metals markets.
Contact
VENARION COMMODITIES LTD
128 City Road
EC1V 2NX
London
United Kingdom