When Kim Bentzen graduated with a meteorology degree in the 1990s, the only career path he saw was Denmark’s national weather service, and going into finance wasn’t on his radar at all.
After five years at the state weather service and two stints working in sales at other companies, he applied for a job at Danske Commodities, an energy trading firm. As the first meteorologist on staff, his bosses were still a little fuzzy on how exactly they would use his skills on the trading floor—they left that part up to him.
