Our Team

  • Larry Roche, CEO, Director and Managing Member

    Larry Roche founded Liquidity Energy as a specialized energy brokerage firm providing comprehensive trade execution and clearing services in the ever-evolving energy markets. He leads the brokerage team, providing unmatched market intuition, deal-making experience, and energy strategy and insight across various markets, including jet, ULSD, crude, natural gas, freight, and renewables. He is a member of NYMEX/CME and has over thirty years of experience trading on CME Group exchanges, including serving as a top market maker in the NYMEX natural gas pits for numerous years.

  • Barbara Hartel, CFO

    Barbara has been with Liquidity Energy since its inception.  She is responsible for financial reporting, compliance oversight and operations.  Prior to joining Liquidity Barbara was Vice President and Co-Head of Hedge Fund Accounting at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a broad role that included the financial reporting of over one hundred hedge funds in the alternatives, private equity and hedge fund space.

  • David Ryan

    David provides Liquidity Energy with consulting services.  He has over 15 years of experience guiding firms through CFTC, CME and NFA regulations and filings, including Dodd-Frank protocols. As an ACAMS member, he has built and overseen AML programs for NFA-registered RFEDs and IBs. He has experience advising more than 75 NFA-member firms on compliance and audits. His presence reflects our firm’s commitment to the highest regulatory standards.

  • Nick Ross, Energy Derivatives

    Nick Ross is a senior energy derivatives broker with over two decades of experience in oil products trading. At Liquidity Energy he specializes in structuring energy swaps and refined product deals, bringing deep market insight and trusted relationships to every transaction

  • Amanda Angrove, Cargo & Freight

    Amanda Angrove brings 15 years of logistics and refinery expertise to lead our cargo division. Formerly with Valero, she specialized in refined products, biofuels, and navigating global crude supply arbitrage. She drives our expansion into international cargo and marine logistics from San Antonio.

  • Peter Donovan, Energy Derivatives

    Peter Donovan is a seasoned energy markets professional with more than 34 years of experience trading on the NYMEX floor. Peter brings extensive expertise across the energy barrel, with deep experience in crude oil, refined products, and derivatives. His long-standing relationships across the trading community and commitment to trusted execution provide valuable perspective and expertise to clients navigating the energy markets.

  • Brian Lapersonerie, Energy Derivatives

    Brian Lapersonerie is a seasoned energy markets professional with over 25 years of experience, beginning his career on the NYMEX trading floor in 2000. As a broker at Liquidity Energy, he specializes in physical jet fuel and ULSD/diesel markets and has extensive experience across crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, and RBOB gasoline. He brings deep market knowledge, long-standing industry relationships, and trusted execution to clients across the energy markets.

  • John Demicoli, Large Structures

    John Demicoli is a veteran OTC contract broker with 40 years of experience across energy and risk markets, including 17 years with Citi in the U.S. and U.K. He specializes in OTC transactions, block trades, options, structured products, and complex hedging and risk-management strategies. John has built deep market expertise and long-standing relationships with banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, and other institutional participants. He brings extensive experience structuring and executing complex transactions, managing market and geopolitical risk, and delivering tailored solutions across energy and financial markets.

  • Dennis Stoneman, Refined Products Broker

    Dennis brings 25+ years of expertise in brokering, trading, and risk management across energy markets, including renewables. A former IPE and NYMEX member who excelled in cross-commodity arbitrage, he entered renewables in 2004, brokering biodiesel and RINs for trans-Atlantic strategies. Dennis taught options and technical analysis for NYMEX and is a CMT Association member

  • Douglas Towne, Energy Derivatives

    Douglas Towne has deep expertise in energy derivatives, trading systems, and hedge fund strategy and more than 25 years of experience trading on the NYMEX floor. Doug is a former principal and managing director at HQ Trading. He has a strong academic foundation in Economics from the University of Iowa and he excels in trading, hedging and business development.

  • Anthony Roberts, Crude, ULSD, GAS, JET , NGL

    Basis specialist GC, LA, Gr3, Denver, Phoenix, West Texas. 20 years of experience in the energy industry broking the full slate of oil and refined products, physical and financial - currently focused on Diesel, Gasoline and Jet across the US and works with Crude, Nat Gas, NGl’s, Biofuels, Ethanol, and Credits on request.

  • Richard May, Futures & Swaps

    Richard May is an oil futures and swaps broker with over 15 years of experience executing complex trades across commodities markets. He specializes in hedging strategies, calendar swaps, and precision trade execution. Richard delivers trusted insight and consistent performance.

  • Steven McNoble, Energy Derivatives

    Steven McNoble is a seasoned energy derivatives broker with over a decade of experience in the industry. He specializes in options and swaps in both crude and refined products markets.

  • Audrean George, Trade Support

    Audrean George has spent nearly 20 years working in the Energy and Commodities industry, with a background spanning brokerage operations, trade support, client services, and revenue operations. Over the years, she has gained a broad understanding of the energy markets and built lasting relationships throughout the industry.  Audrean values collaboration, strong relationships, and being a part of a team in a fast-moving market.

  • Thomas Brennan, Trade Support

    Tom Brennan has 25+ years of energy-market experience across crude, refined products, natural gas, LNG, power, and marine logistics. A former crude oil and power trader and energy broker, he has experience in physical and derivative markets, hedging, Brent/WTI arbitrage, refined-products operations, risk, and vessel-loading coordination.