Turning points: Labhart Risk Advisors’ Glenn Labhart

Labhart Risk Advisors’ Glenn Labhart talks to Gillian Carr about how trading and risk management functions have evolved over his career, and points to what needs to happen next

Glenn Labhart’s long career in energy trading and risk management – spanning over 30 years – began almost by chance, he says. “I just kind of fell in to it, to tell the truth,” he says. His first exposure to the energy industry was hands on, working in the Texan oil fields.

“It was after college, my football career at Abilene Christian University was over and I started to work for an entrepreneur in West Texas who had some drilling rigs, some trucks and was starting a crude oil gathering