Mauricio Ramirez has taken on the role of Chief Financial Officer at Murex LLC, a Plano-based company that specializes in marketing and logistics for low-carbon fuels. As CFO, Ramirez will oversee several key areas, including finance, accounting, compliance, and risk management.
Robert C. Wright, the president and co-founder of Murex, announced in that Ramirez joins the team after a longstanding relationship with the company. In a statement, Wright credits Mauricio’s prior work with Macquarie and believes his unique abilities and talents will help Murex to “continue to grow and prosper”.
From 2014 to 2022, Ramirez was director of commodity sales and trading at Macquarie Group in Houston, the company said. There, he was responsible for structuring and implementing physical and financial client hedging strategies and managing a global book of more than 50 traders across a wide range of commodities.
Ramirez spent six years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc., as vice president of commodity sales and marketing.
Second largest private company in DFW
Murex is a leading low-carbon marketing and logistics company for renewable fuels, trading roughly 2 billion gallons of product across the 48 contiguous states and more than 20 countries worldwide. It is a market leader in the renewable fuels export space, controlling over 20% of the ethanol export market.
Murex has been in business for over 32 years and operates across multiple commodities, including renewable fuels, ethanol, crude, methanol, jet fuel, and diesel.
Murex was ranked the second-largest private company in the DFW by the Dallas Business Journal in 2022, earning more than $3.7 billion in revenue annually. It provides turnkey solutions to its biofuel plant partners, managing all aspects of marketing, logistics, regulatory, and fleet management.
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