John Douglas Arnold, born in 1974, is an American hedge fund manager, specializing in natural gas trading. His firm, Centaurus Advisors, LLC, is a Houston-based hedge fund that specializes in trading energy products.
After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he began his career as a trader at Enron. After initially working on the Crude Oil desk, Arnold moved over to the Natural Gas Desk upon the departure of Jeff Bussan. Using their new Intern...
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John Douglas Arnold, born in 1974, is an American hedge fund manager, specializing in natural gas trading. His firm, Centaurus Advisors, LLC, is a Houston-based hedge fund that specializes in trading energy products.
After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he began his career as a trader at Enron. After initially working on the Crude Oil desk, Arnold moved over to the Natural Gas Desk upon the departure of Jeff Bussan. Using their new Internet-based trading network, EnronOnline, he is credited with making three quarters of a billion dollars for Enron in 2001 and was rewarded with an $8 million bonus. One of his former colleagues dubbed him "the king of natural gas."
When Enron collapsed in 2002, he founded Centaurus with his previous year's bonus. His company now has as much as $3 billion in assets under management. His employees include several big name energy traders including former Enron CEO Greg Whalley, as well as Bill Perkins, Mike Maggi, and Conrad Goerl, previously of...
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