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CTO | Digital / Innovation

Helsingborg, Sweden

Nativo Italian, Svenska, English, German, Fluente French, Debutante Danish

  • Building of high performing Teams
  • Innovation, Digital & Agile Methodologies
  • 20+ Years of IT Leadership experience

Competenze (53)

PAYMENTS

Trading Technology

TRADING

Order Management Systems

Kanban

e-FX

DERIVATIVES

agile methodology

ORDER MANAGEMENT

Organisational Change

SECURITIES

OPERATIONS

FIX Protocol

Stakeholder Management

BI-LINGUAL

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

RFP

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

OFFSHORE

Change Management

CLIENTS

Innovation

VENDOR SELECTION

BILINGUAL

STEERING

BUDGETS

INVOICING

BUDGET

Swift

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Risk Management

SAAS

Scaled Agile

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE

Scrum

DUE DILIGENCE

PROTOTYPING

SERVICE DEPARTMENT

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Hedging

Agile

CASH MANAGEMENT

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

UX design

ION

WEBSOCKET

Marketing

ACCOUNTING

RETAIL SALES

CCP

SPLUNK

HR

Riassunto

Mikael is a visionary leader within Digital Trading / Banking Technology with a history of successfully delivering
complex, transformation, innovation & change programs encompassing both business and technology. He is a result
focused hands-on practitioner who builds high performing teams, leads the design of best-in-class technical
solutions, and executes agile transformations. Having 40 years of technology experience including insight into the
newest technologies (Cloud / Containers / ML / AI / Blockchain) as well as a particularly good understanding of the
business makes him excellent at delivering the technical tools for new Business ideas.

Currently he is helping NeoBrokers & NeoBanks to Deliver their Digital roadmap and in his previous role he was
leading the e-FX Trading & Trade Processing Technology at the biggest Scandinavian Bank (Nordea Markets),
owning the technology vision and strategy, distributed development and operations teams, budgets, programs,
vendors & infrastructure for Forex Front & Middle office as well as payments. He managed in short time to
transform an e-FX offering that was mediocre to winning the award for best FX provider in Scandinavia and was also
the first to introduce DevOps making intraday releases a reality.

Before joining Nordea Markets, he led the Murex & Treasury IT teams at Credit Suisse introducing LEAN and Agile.

For the Swiss CCP clearing house SIX x-clear AG he successfully managed the Acquisition, Merger, and Technology
Integration of Oslo Clearing ASA (derivatives clearing) and at Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) he delivered ahead of
original time and below budget an innovative Online Trading Platform "eTrading Pro" for Structured Products, FX,
and Securities.

At MIG Bank he built the bank's full IT from scratch and in parallel a highly profitable FX Trading offering,
appreciated by more than 60'000 customers world-wide.

Esperienze professionali

Freelance
Digital Transformation & Trading Technology

2020-05 - Presente

Worldwide Strategic Consultant at CxO level for several banks & NeoBrokers with regards to: ● Digital Banking, Innovation & Agile Transformation ● Trading Technology Change Programs (e-FX / FIS Front Arena / Murex ) Current Projects: ● FinTech - Delivery: From scratch development of an online Digital Banking & Trading platform (Pre- & Posttrade) for Securities, Crypto, FX & CFDs. (APIs, FIX Protocol, Kafka, Containers, AWS, SaaS, Cloud Services).
Past Projects: ● Bank - Advisor for Digital Transformation ● Bank - Advisor - Executed the smoothest FIS Front Arena Platform 2021.3.5 upgrade the bank had ever made.
● NeoBank - Consulting, Digital Banking & Agile Transformation, TechOps re-org, review of SDLC ● Bank - Review of Innovation process and strategic advice regarding agile methods
Director, Head of e-FX & Trade Processing Technology
Nordea Markets

2016-12 - 2019-12

Denmark Reported to the CTO Trading and led all the FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities) technology & digital strategy, development, and operations teams for Capital Markets & Treasury, incl. Forex Front & Middle office.
Responsible for the development and delivery of a world class FX Trading platform. Ensured that the business technology strategy and roadmaps were developed to enable business to achieve its objectives. Achieved the objective to become the best e-FX platform in Scandinavia. Built, led, mentored, and developed 7 talented teams totalling more than 60 people, distributed across 6 countries, and completely re-build a state-of-the-art, highly available FX Technology platform.
Implemented several innovative service offerings like Customer FX Algo suite, AutoFX and APIs.
Responsibilities: ● Stakeholder management on C-level ● Own the technology vision and strategy, Operations, Software Development, Testing, Infrastructure ● Responsible for all Front & Middle Office FX Systems (Markets + Treasury) plus payments infrastructure, more than 30 Business Critical applications incl. In-house developed and 3rd Party: Broadway Technology, Barracuda FX, D3, ION, WallStreetFX, Murex, Refinitiv Electronic Trading ● Full FX trade lifecycle (Pre-, Trade & Post-Trade), cross-border and payment flows.
● Programs, budgets, innovation, Vendor Management & Fin-Tech collaborations ● Ensured that all the platforms were designed to be highly resilient, flexible, scalable, performant, and secure.
● Responsible for Digital Channels, APIs (FIX Protocol, REST, WebSocket, Open Banking), Liquidity Aggregators, Price Generation & Streaming (RfS & RfQ) Trade / Order Management, Execution and Distribution, Algo Engines, Algo Execution, Real-time Position, Liquidity & Risk Management, Auto hedging, post-trade workflows, Cash Management, Payments, Collateral, Positions, Risk, Settlements, RPA, Internal Interfaces & Web Portals ● Products: FX Spot, NDFs, SWAPs, Time Options, MM ● Regulatory compliance (MiFID2, Global Code, PSD2 ) Major Achievements (extract): ● Rebuilt teams that were completely dismantled at arrival, scaled up the teams massively, and created several high-performing agile teams.
● First in the bank to be approved for intra-day releases (at arrival: 1 release every 2-3 months) on businesscritical systems by building a DevOps team and transforming the division to agile (SAFe).
● Introduced: CI/CD, Containers, Microservices & Hybrid + Private Cloud ● Successfully moved/implemented several key low-latency components to Hybrid & Private Cloud.
● Factor 5 increase in availability of the platform in 9 months by introducing "Design for Failure" and personally investing huge effort into finding and resolving root causes.
● 8 times shorter issue investigation times by Implementing (hands-on) Splunk.
● Saved 20% of infrastructure costs while doing a total refresh of Hardware (140 Servers) and new Datacentre.
● Reduced costs by 1M€/year and increased functionality by successfully replacing OMS in 6 months.
● Decommissioned 20 legacy software components.
● Successfully replaced 30 legacy low-latency components with new in-house developed microservices.
● In only 7 months successfully developed (greenfield) and introduced the first Customer FX Algo Execution Offering in Scandinavia (https://nordeamarkets.com/products-services/fxalgo/) starting the project years after main competitor and going live during the same month giving the bank an additional revenue stream.
● Driver of Innovation culture: First in Scandinavia to offer FX APIs via Open Banking (PSD2), Developed "AutoFX " for Corporate Cash Management (winner of innovation award).
Awards (extract):
Delivery Manager Murex
Global Finance

2018-01 - 2018-01

2019 - Best Foreign Exchange Provider in Denmark, Norway, and Finland Global Finance 2018 - Best Foreign Exchange Provider in Norway & Finland 2018 Credit Suisse Delivery Manager Murex - Securities and Treasury Ops IT
Global Finance

2017-01 - 2017-01

The Innovators - AutoFX - Product Innovation
Leader
Murex & Treasury IT Operations and Development

2015-11 - 2016-11

with cross discipline geographically dispersed (CH, US, India) technology teams with more than 40 people, both on and offshore.
Responsibilities: ● Development and Operations of Murex MX.3, in-house components, and Treasury system (mainframe) ● Lead: 2nd /3rd Level Support, BA, Development, Quality Assurance and Deployment Teams.
● Business stakeholder management on senior level ● Managing the overall program setup (BoW), scoping, structuring of delivery and execution ● Products: Equity Derivatives, FX Options and PM Options ● Ensuring the continuation of the bank's systemically important functions in case of a threatened insolvency Major Achievements: ● Achieved a 30% increase of the software development efficiency while at the same time increasing the code stability by coaching and developing high-performing technical teams.
● Introducing Lean/Kanban and completely re-organized the SDLC process.
● 50% reduction of production incidents after 6 months.
COO -Ad Interim
Lykke AG

2015-03 - 2015-10

Switzerland Co-Founded the FinTech Lykke (https://www.lykke.com/) to build a global crypto exchange utilising DLT (distributed ledger technology) & Blockchain that would offer the possibility of issuing and trading anything as a digital asset.
Manager, Merger and Acquisition of Oslo Clearing ASA
SIX-Group

2013-07 - 2015-02

Oslo, Norway Manager of the acquisition and merger of Oslo Clearing ASA (Derivatives CCP clearing) by SIX x-clear AG (Pan- European Multi-Asset Clearing).
● Engagement with Board & C-Level stakeholders and chair relevant steering committees ● Due diligence ● Led coordination of 12 different workgroups (Norwegian Team, M&A, Legal, HR, Accounting, Reporting, IT, Tax, Client Relationship, Risk, Treasury, Invoicing), 16 direct and around 35 indirect reports.
● Management of regulatory permits (EMIR, cross-border licences, FINMA, SNB & Norwegian Authorities) Major Achievements: ● Executed the Merger with approval by SNB, FINMA, Ministry of Finance (NO) and FSA on the 1st of May 2015.
● Technical strategy & integration of 2 vastly different clearing platforms, move to Private cloud hosting.
● Successfully transferred all Oslo clearing ASA customers to the new legal entity.
Head - Cross-Asset Single Dealer Platform & APIs
ZKB

2011-09 - 2013-07

Switzerland Led the design and development of a greenfield program to develop a Cross-Asset online (SDP) Trading platform "eTrading Pro" for Structured Products, Forex and Securities. The futuristic platform enhanced ZKB's B2B clients (Investment Banks, Cantonal Banks, and Asset Managers) digital experience giving them access to the full spectrum of trading services via internet.
Responsibilities: ● The vision of the technology strategy to go beyond the business objectives.
● Built & Led 6 Teams of more than 120 people (Developers, Structured Products, FX, Securities, Common Services, IT Infrastructure), management of internal and external resources.
● Technology strategy, Vendor selection and relationships ● Owned budgets, Operational Risk, Compliance, Legal, SLAs ● Design of internal and external Business Processes ● UX Design, Business and Client Requirements.
Major Achievements: ● Successful go-live on time and budget in April 2013.
● Delivered a best-in-class cross asset online (HTML5) real-time trading platform that was far beyond the bank's expectations.
● 30% shortening of the estimated program duration by being the first to introduce agile methodology.
● Thanks to strong technical, interpersonal and relationship management skills, managed to align requirements from different departments and asset classes, broke 3 competing organisational silos.
● Rebuilt the full structured products backend, from a Request-reply to a streaming real-time architecture.
● Led the conception of a single cross-asset service organisation ("Change the Bank") ● Winner of a 2013 Water Sell-Side Technology award
MD, Head of e-Trading & Corporate Solutions | CIO
Neuchatel

2009-01 - 2011-09

Switzerland Reporting directly to the CEO and part of the Executive Management, hired to build-up the Corporate IT team from scratch and shortly promoted to additionally take over the responsibility for the e-Trading Technology group becoming responsible for the whole IT of the Bank.
Successfully led, initiated, and managed an extremely challenging list of concurrent and correlated programs to build the complete IT of a bank from the ground up and under extreme time pressure.
Monthly FX volume of > 60 billion CHF Responsibilities: ● Masterminded the company's trading technologies and guaranteed the delivery of state-of-the-art applications as well as to manage and coordinate deliveries with external providers.
● Responsible for all aspects of Trading Technology and Corporate IT.
● Identify and develop a global technology strategy for all solutions and projects needed as part of the overall corporate strategy. Define the platform Roadmap, plan, and software lifecycle.
● Led the support, operations, infrastructure, and development teams.
● Designed and established projects and implementation plans, progress reports and recommendations for improvement of processes, definition of PMLC & SDLC ● Assured that technology infrastructure, applications, security, and the related processes where fit for purpose, define the technology stack.
● Created and proposed outsourcing strategies, RFQs, selection and management of vendors / providers, contracts, agreements, SLA's, Vendor relationships ● Management of Prime Broker and Liquidity providers, Liquidity Management, and exposure monitoring / automatic hedging.
Major Achievements: ● Scaled up, trained, and led the team from 2 to 70 people in 1 year to accommodate the banks expansion.
● Built and maintained a stable FX environment for >60'000 Clients (across the globe) and >240'000 FX tx / day.
● 30% Increase of profits by developing a real-time Exposure & Risk management system for FX and CFDs.
● Increased Liquidity providers from 4 to 16, Introduced a 2nd Prime Broker, introduced CFDs.
● Introduced an automated FX Liquidity management system.
● Introduced a mobile trading app as well as Currenex & Integral as additional trading platforms.
● Developed FIX Protocol & RESTfull connectivity APIs and introduced Customer FIX Post-trade reporting.
● Developed a SOA platform for the real time integration of all trading platforms (4), Liquidity providers (16), Core Banking system, Exposure Monitoring, CRM & ECM, Risk Management, Reporting ● Successfully Implemented a Core Banking System (FIS Ambit) from scratch in record time (<1 year)! ● Introduced: Online Banking solution, CRM, OMS, SWIFT, KYC, ESB, MIS, MT4, RPA ● Actively supported the process of obtaining a Swiss Banking license making MIG the First Forex broker to have obtained one by FINMA as well as a Securities Dealers License.
CTO
Advanced Integrations AG

2002-01 - 2008-12

Switzerland Reported directly to the Board of the FinTech, Led the development of a product line offering Front, Middle and Back-office Systems as well as professional services around electronic Trading Systems, stock exchange and Broker connectivity.
Responsibilities: ● Built, led, and mentored the software development and professional services / consulting teams.
● Joint ventures and strategic partnerships including FIS Front Arena, Ullink and Cameron FIX.
● Provided Professional Services and Consultancy at various Swiss Banks for: o Our own products (Advanced Integrations) o FIS Front Arena o Trade and Order Management Systems, Market Connectivity, FIX Protocol o Due Diligence, M&As, RFPs ● Product Owner for all products ● IT Infrastructure, Network Design, Technical architecture ● Inhouse developed solutions (Equities): Service bus (SOA) for the Front to back integration of financial systems; Complex Event Processing; Global order monitor; Connectors for Data, Back, Middle and Front office systems; OMS; EMS; Internal market for systematic internalization.
Major Achievements (@customers): ● Successful Greenfield implementation of the biggest FIS Front Arena (Equities) system of its time.
● Developed various FIX Protocol & native market connections.
● Implemented a systematic internalization solution for equities (AIMS/AMAS) ● Re-designed the complete trade-order management system for one of the biggest Swiss Bank.
● Re-designed the Equities Trading Technology and RFP/vendor selection for Tier-2 Swiss Bank ● Merged 2 Equities Trading Platforms due to a bank merger.
● Designed and built a lake-water cooled Datacentre, optimized for VMware Virtualization.
CIO & Co-Founder BioTech
BrainIT

2001-01 - 2001-12

Spain Entrepreneur with the objective to bring the first "Brain Computer Interface" (A system to control a computer by brain activity) to market (Demo Video). The system was using ML and AI and too far ahead of its time.
Project Manager and Researcher
JRC

1995-09 - 2001-06

Italy Project Manager and researcher at the nuclear research plant of the European Commission at ESTI (European Solar Test Institute) and ISIS (Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety).
Major Projects & Achievements (extract): ● Developed a device that can control a PC by brain activity (ABI - Adaptive Brain Interface) with several Patents. Prototype demonstrated live at several conferences and TV articles on CNN & BBC.
● Designed and built an extremely high precision Laser Beamed Induced Current Photovoltaic cell scanning system with a precision of under 5 μm.
Manager
IKEA

1991-10 - 1993-07

Italy Built and led the customer IT Service Department Achievements: ● Designed and implemented the first home delivery service of IKEA.

Esperienze formative

MBA
Università degli Studi di Milano

2023-03 - 2000-01

Baccalaureat
European School

1993-01 - 1997-01

Ecole Reine Astride
Ecole Reine Astride

1984-01 - 1985-01

Lycée international de Saint-Germain
Lycée international de Saint-Germain

1983-01 - 1984-01

Swiss school
Swiss school

1981-01 - 1983-01

German school
German school

1976-01 - 1981-01

Certificazioni

Product Manager & Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist
Front Arena Certified Application Manager
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist #96399900-1074
Certified SAFe 4 Agilist #18395246-7531
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner
Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner
Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner
Full Professional Proficiency
Elementary Proficiency
Certified Scrum Master
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