Andy Simpson, CEO at Sigma Financial, Founder and CEO of real time research & analytics firm, Sigma AI, which provides advanced ML and Gen AI based insights, Andrew has been leading market structure change in financial services for more than 25 years. He has delivered strategic change and business growth for banks, markets infrastructure and the UKs regulator. Amongst his roles he was COO at disruptor exchange...
Nordic Trading Conference 2025 Speakers
Tuesday 3rd June
Speakers
Christian Bock, Sales Director for EMEA Region, at Talos, Christian Bock is a Sales Director in the EMEA region at Talos, the premier provider of institutional trading and portfolio management technology for digital assets. Based in Zurich, Christian is responsible for identifying and onboarding institutional clients, supporting Talos in establishing itself as the primary infrastructure provider for the institutional trading and management of digital assets...
Daniel Shepherd, CEO of BTON Dan Shepherd: CEO of BTON, transforming the algo wheel with AI, trade execution and fintech specialist, serial entrepreneur. Evangelist of using technology and data to optimise trading outcomes for investors.
Daniel Wendin, Co-Chair Nordic Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Quantitative Execution Strategy, SEB Extensive front office experience – Trading & Capital Markets, Cash Equity, Quantitative Trading, Business and Product development. M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Business Management with specialisation in Telecommunications.
Emelie Moritz, CEO of Safello, Emelie Moritz is the CEO of Safello, Sweden’s leading crypto exchange. Before stepping into the role of CEO, she served as Safello’s COO, where she was instrumental in scaling operations and strengthening the company’s regulatory framework. Emelie has a Masters in Law from Uppsala University, and a background with Carnegie Investment Bank and Avanza Bank.
Erik Einerth, Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets, SSMA With 30 years of financial market experience, Erik currently holds the position of Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets at SSMA. This role follows Erik’s work as Senior Business Development Manager and Regulatory Affairs Officer at Swedbank. Erik has also had 20 years of trading experience as a derivatives market maker and equity trader....
Erik Lidman, Associate professor of Corporate Law at the University of Stockholm and Gothenburg Erik Lidman Associate Professor of company law at the universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg, and director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Institute. He is also an executive of the Swedish Takeover Panel and a member of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee.
Felix von Bahr, Head of Nordic Sales, EU Equities an Derivatives at Nasdaq In his role as head of Nordic sales for equities and equity derivatives Felix is working closely with the key stakeholders of the Nordic trading community to understand their needs and develop the Nordic equity markets. Felix have spent the last 10 years at Nasdaq, prior to that he served as a...
Gabrielle Hagman, Swedish Country Manager at Nordnet Gabrielle is the Swedish Country Manager at Nordnet Bank since 2024. Previous experience from multiple leadership positions within Danske Bank, including Head of Institutional Banking Sweden and Vice President at BlackRock. Gabrielle began her career at Swedbank and most recently she comes from the role of Director of Mutual Funds at Nordnet and remains a member of the board at...
Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director and Global Technical Committee Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community, Founder and Senior Standards Advisor, FIXdom Hanno Klein works as an independent consultant specialised in the standardisation of electronic interfaces and is the founder of FIXdom – “The Wisdom of FIX” in Germany (April 2019). Previously, he has worked for more than 20 years at Deutsche Börse Group that provides the technology for...
Hayley McDowell, Head of European Market Structure, RBC Capital Markets Hayley is Head of European Market Structure at RBC Capital Markets. She joined the firm in 2021 after almost seven years working as a Senior Journalist and then Editor of London-based buy-side trading publication, The TRADE. Hayley’s focus at RBC is to provide timely insights on key market structure and regulatory developments to clients and...
Henrik Falk, Head of Trading at Swedbank, overseeing risk taking in Credits, Rates, FX and Equity derivatives. Prior to this role he was responsible for the Rates trading business. Henrik has more than 10 years of experience in various trading and capital market roles at Swedbank, Morgan Stanley and Pareto Securities.
Ian Mawdsley, Chief Product Officer, Broadridge Trading & Connectivity Solutions Ian has been working in the financial markets for over 30 years, and has been at the forefront of electronic trading since the early 1990s working in senior product roles within major financial and financial technology firms such as ABN AMRO, UBS and LSEG Refinitiv . Ian joined Broadridge in May of 2022 following the...
James Baugh, Managing Director, Head of European Market Structure, TD Securities James joined TD Execution Services in 2021 (formerly Cowen Execution Services, now part of TD Securities) as Head of European Market Structure and has been instrumental in helping to develop its liquidity strategy. Prior to this, he spent five years at Citi as European Head of Market Structure and 11 years at London Stock...
Johan Hörmark, Investment Banking / Equities Business Development at SEB Johan Hörmark, Equities Technology and Business Development, SEB. A part from the role in Equities has among other things been driving Digital Assets initiatives, one of the more recent being the digital bond SEB arranged for the European Investment Bank.
Julie Zhou, Head of Continental EU Sales for Cash Equities at Cboe Europe Julie is Head of Continental EU sales for Cash Equities at Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European equities exchange by market share and value-traded, the largest pan-European equity trade reporting services, as well as low-cost European equity market data and benchmark equity trade indices. She is responsible for client relationship management...
Magnus Lilja, Head of Private Banking at Avanza 30 years of experience from the financial markets covering FX, Fixed Income, Credits, Distressed Debt, Equities and Emerging Markets. Magnus serves as Head of Avanza Private Banking with +30 000 clients and AUM of EUR 40bln. Prior to Avanza he held several senior leadership positions with SEB Markets globally.
Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe. Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed...
Markus Mild, Regulatory Strategist & Principal Compliance Analyst, Nasdaq Current EU Regulatory strategy Former Finansinspektionen (Swedish FSA) as Senior Market Analyst at the Markets Analysis Department (Sweden representative in ESMA Standing Committees) 15+ years’ experience from industry as Derivatives & Cash trader/Risk
Martin Swanson, Founder, Atomic Wire • Former Group CTO for Securities at UBS with 20+ years of expertise in financial services and capital markets. • Led the transformation strategy for UBS’s post-trade environment, with 10,000+ operations staff and annual TCO of CHF 1.5bn. • Introduced Kafka, Flink, Elastic and the firm’s first AI production solution. • Member of the FIX Orchestra subcommittee since 2023.
Nathalie Ruiz is Head of Equity Sales, Continent & Global Buyside, at Euronext. Nathalie Ruiz is Head of Equity Sales for Continental Europe and Buy Side clients at Euronext. She leads strategic engagement with institutional and retail investors across the region, promoting access to Euronext’s seven equity markets in Europe. Prior to joining Euronext, she spent nearly 15 years sales trading at Credit Suisse, with...
Niclas Egmar,Head of Derivatives & ETF Sales and Trading at SEB, Niclas Egmar is the Head of Derivatives & ETF Sales and Trading at SEB, as well as a member of the SEB Equities Management team. He began his career in the United States 25 years ago, where he earned his BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University. Throughout his career, Niclas has gained extensive...
Nikolaj Kosakewitsch, Senior Vice President and Head of EMS Sales, European Equities & Derivatives and President, Nasdaq Copenhagen Kosakewitsch joined Nasdaq in May 2017 and brings years of extensive knowledge, experience, and insight from sell side working with buy side institutions in the Nordics, Europe and the UK. He holds a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Oscar Björklund, CEO at Lysa Fonder AB, Oscar Björklund has extensive experience in the finance industry, particularly in fund management. Oscar holds a master’s degree in Industrial Economics with a focus on financial optimization and programming from Linköping University of Technology, 2011, as well as a bachelor’s degree in economics from Linköping University, 2010. Oscar worked at iZettle (2016–2018) as the Director of Risk Credit, where he was responsible for credit risk in iZettle’s corporate...
Ove Heiberg , Senior Equity Sales at Euronext Ove Heiberg is a Senior Equity Sales at Euronext in the Nordics, based in Oslo. He works closely with market participants on both the buy- and sell-side to understand their needs and strengthen Euronext’s equity offering for Nordic clients. Ove joined Euronext on July 1, 2020, and has since held various roles within the Equities and Index division.
Patrick Lucas, Founder, Atomic Wire • Former Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Yelp with 15+ years of expertise in big tech. • Previously Senior Data Engineer at Ververica and an original team member responsible for developing the Ververica Platform. • Member of the FIX Orchestra subcommittee since 2023.
Paul Brennan, Chief Strategy Officer at, Imandra Paul Brennan is an accomplished business leader with over 20 years of industry experience and a proven history of driving innovation and executing initiatives that maximise stakeholder value. Currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Imandra, an AI company serving the financial markets, Paul unlocks transformative opportunities at the intersection of people, artificial intelligence and financial markets.
Pegah Esmaeili, the Head of Nordic Region, at Virtu Financial Pegah is the Head of Virtu’s Nordic region and has led the firm’s client-focused execution services since 2015, during which time Virtu has become a key player in the region. She has also been an active member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee since 2020. Before joining Virtu, she was a Partner at...
Quincy Curry, Director of Securities Brokerage, Nordnet Quincy Curry is the Head of Securities Brokerage at Nordnet. Prior to joining Nordnet in January, 2022, he worked for 2 years at fintech startup Mondido as both CFO and Chief Strategy Officer; 11 years at Bank of America, where he worked with Equity Structured Financing first in New York and then London, before taking on responsibility for...
Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community, Founder, Redlap Consulting Rebecca is considered to be a leading industry voice on market structure, regulatory reform, and financial services technology. Writing research over the last decade, Rebecca has authored a plethora of qualitative reports and commentaries covering the impact of market regulation on all asset classes, the impact of the rise of fintech in capital...
Wictor Comstedt, Xtrackers Sales, Nordic&Baltic at DWS Coverage Wictor is a seasoned professional in the financial sector, currently serving as senior ETF Sales for Xtrackers (part om DWS group which in one of the largest asset managers in Europe) covering institution and wholesale clients in the Nordic and Baltic region. He transitioned to this role after an impressive 11-year tenure at Nasdaq, where he held...