About Your Speakers

Head of Trading of Pohjola Asset Management is broadly experienced in the financial industry as a Trader, Portfolio Manager and Hedge Fund Manager. He has headed the Pohjola Asset Mangements multi asset class trading desk since 2008 with ongoing responsibility for the team´s contribution to the investment process. He joined OP-Pohjola Group May 2000.

From 1987 – 1990, Per was Head of Eurobond Trading Desk (sell side) Privatbanken. He then joined Unibank (sell side) from 1990 – 1997 as the Head of International Fixed Income Trading. From 1997 – 2002, he was Head of International Equity Trading (sell side) at Unibank/Nordea. Per has been in his current role since 2002 where he’s Head of Trading & Execution at Nordea Investment Management (buy side) in Copenhagen overlooking 14 traders at a centralized trading desk for Equities, Fixed Income and FX . On the Equity side, Nordea Investment Management trades in 60 countries+ on a global scale and have trading relationsship with 80 brokers+ globally.

Hans Lindh studied Political Science and History at the University of Umeå from 1979-80, Economics at the University of Umeå from 1980-1984 and Business and Company Valuation at Stockholm School of Economics in 1991. Mr Lindh started as Equity Sales at Handelsbanken from 1985-1989 and the he was Head of Sales International Equities at Handelsbanken from 1990-1993. He then joined Merrill Lynch in London as European Equity Sales, Head of Nordic Region and was Member of the Merrill Lynch Executive Management Committee from 1994-2001. He was General Manager at Lidingö Vikings Hockey from 2002-2006 and is currently Head of Trading, Equities at Swedbank Robur.

M.Sc. in Business. Hanne Råe Larsen joined the Danish FSA 1 January 2010. Previously to joining Finanstilsynet she has 18 years experience from the financial sector in Denmark.

Jens Jacob Foged has 13 years experience in creating and managing Global Equity & CFD, trading desks. Through IT integration, he is able to cut cost and minimize risk in market making & trading, thus increasing Sharp ratio & profit substantially. Mr Foged has been licensed as a trader on all major European exchanges and has made markets in over 700 stocks worldwide. Currently he is working on Trade Cost Analysis, OMS/EMS integration, Multi Asset Trading and hedging of ETF market making books. Former positions held include: Head of Trading Equity and CFD, Saxo Bank 2002-2007, Global Equity Trader, Nordea Securities 1997-2002 and from 1992-1997, he was a Private Banker at Nordea.

Matthew is responsible for the business development and distribution of Triton, ITG’s EMS throughout Europe. Since joining ITG Matthew has represented ITG’s liquidity and electronic trading group and has partnered with Triton clients to provide custom solutions including trade automation, smart order routing and customised pre-trade.
Investment Technology Group, Inc., is an independent agency research broker that partners with asset managers globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the investment continuum. A leader in electronic trading since launching POSIT® in 1987, ITG's integrated approach now includes a range of products from portfolio management and pre-trade analysis to trade execution and post-trade evaluation. Asset managers rely on ITG’s independence, experience, and agility to help mitigate risk, improve performance and navigate increasingly complex markets.
Before joining ITG in January 2008, Matthew spent 4 years at Fidessa as Head of EMS Sales and was instrumental in launching their buyside EMS offering. Prior to Fidessa Matthew worked in a variety of sales and product management roles within the exchange and sell-side.

Graham Dick is head of business development, sales and client account management at Chi-X Europe. He is a member of the Executive Committee and has been with the company since inception in 2006.

Graham was initially responsible for new clients and account management and in addition now heads all new business and product initiatives including derivatives, clearing and market data strategies. He has been an integral part of the team that has become one of Europe’s largest exchanges in just over 4 years

Graham has 25 years’ experience of European equity markets. Prior to joining Chi-X Europe, Graham was a Managing Director at UBS in Paris, responsible for Continental European trading and sales trading. He started his career as an equity floor trader on both the London and Paris Stock exchanges with Credit Lyonnais.

Alex Dalley leads the BATS Europe sales division and is responsible for client relationship management and development. Before joining BATS Europe in August 2008, Mr. Dalley was head of membership at the London Stock Exchange directing exchange trading sales and member firm acquisition. He also led business development for the LSE buy-side/sell-side FIX hub and spoke service. Mr. Dalley enjoys competitive long distance running and recently completed a marathon in just over three and half hours. He is also an avid golfer and a member of the Stock Exchange Golf Society. He graduated with honors from the University of Plymouth with a degree in business studies.

Axel Pierron, based in the firm's Paris office, is a Senior Vice President for Celent''s Securitiies & Investments group. Mr. Pierron's expertise lies in electronic bond trading, derivatives and FX markets, market infrastructure, trade finance, and claim management automation.

Most recently Axel Pierron was featured in the Financial News 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology, published September 2011. Mr. Pierron is also quoted regularly in the media, including the Financial Times, Reuters, Les Echos, Le Monde, CNBC, BBC, Financial News, France 2, Daily Telegraph, and European Banker. He is a frequent speaker on technology’s impact on strategy and market organization. Mr. Pierron was a member of the Mission Ecoter within the French Senate and of the Association pour le commerce et les services en ligne (ACSEL).

Before joining Celent, Mr. Pierron was an Internet research analyst for BNP Paribas, where he conducted a variety of market research and projects in fields such as e-finance, global B2B operations, knowledge management, and CRM. He was a member of several strategic Internet units within BNP Paribas, including those focused on financial markets.

Previously, Mr. Pierron was an internal auditor for Leclerc, the second largest supermarket chain in France. His duties there included management of an EDI implementation project.

Mr. Pierron holds an MA in financial markets from the CERAM business school in Nice, France. He is fluent in English and French and proficient in German.

Andreas Lindblom is the founder of and Managing Director at DMA Direct. He has more than 15 years of experience from the financial and IT industry, especially from financial services (brokerage and custody) and advanced IT solutions (trading and high-performance computing). Andreas has founded and headed a number of businesses and research projects and holds a M.Sc. in physics.