Speakers

Viktor Östebo, ETF Sales Trader at Flow Traders, has spent the last 9 years specializing in the area of exchange traded products. Prior to joining Flow Traders Viktor has been responsible for derivatives and structured products at Nordnet Bank as well as heading up the listed structured products group at SIP Nordic. He is also the founding father of Johdannaiset.fi.

Gerhard Schwediauer, CIIA, has worked with Wiener Börse since 1998 in different positions. Amongst other things he was responsible for the creation and the enlargement of the product and index portfolio of Wiener Börse. In his current role as Senior Business Development Officer he is in charge of building business relationships with other stock exchanges and of cooperation in the field of index business.

Christian Oetterich, ETF Sales Trader at Flow Traders, is a dedicated ETF-specialist. Prior to joining Flow Traders Christian has been working with ETFs at Deka Bank in Frankfurt and at Unicredit Bank in Munich.

Harri Toivonen, Ph.D. (Econ.) in Finance, is partner at Contango Fund Management Company. He is responsible for managing the Contango Commodity Beta Fund. This is an actively managed fund with an absolute return target. Harri started his career at Scandinavian banks and as a risk management consultant. Since writing his dissertation “Modeling, valuation and risk management of commodity derivatives”, his professional career has been linked to the commodity markets.

Ari Kaaro joined Seligson & Co in 2002 and became Managing Director in December 2005. Before that he was involved in various roles in media, management consulting and private equity. Growing rapidly, Seligson & Co specializes in investment solutions that are low cost and long-term and with a sustainability focus.

Peter Wölger, Regional Director for the Nordics, Baltics, Russia and the Ukraine is based in Stockholm and responsible for business development and sales of the globally integrated index families of STOXX Ltd. He is responsible for the sales of licenses to financial institutions for issuing related indexing products. He actively supports licensees in bringing the indices and index products closer to their institutional and retail investors. He develops and maintains relationships with key clients and in key markets in order to raise the profile of STOXX Ltd in his markets.

Anders Ekholm, CIO, Eufex Pankki, holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Finance from the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. He is co-founder of Eufex Pankki Oy and Eufex Rahastohallinto Oy, a Helsinki-based service provider specialized in fund analysis and asset management.

Rein Ojavere is responsible for heading the research process at Limestone, a specialist Emerging European equity fund manager based in Tallinn. Rein started as an equity analyst in Suprema Securities in 1997 and moved later to corporate finance, where he worked as a Director until 2006, participating in a number of landmark M&A transactions, privatization deals and public offerings in the Baltic region. In 2006 Rein joined Hansa Investment Funds to overhaul equity research process and took over the management of Hansa Central Asia Equity Fund. Rein is a CFA Charterholder and has a MSc in Economics and Business Administration degree from University of Tartu.

Dr. Markus Thomas, founder of XENIX, is a leading European expert in the field of indices, investment funds and ETFs. He started his career in 1999 at a German asset manager and he worked a couple of years for Siemens Financial Services (SFS) on Investment and Pension related themes. From 2006 to autumn 2009, Markus Thomas was head of sales for two index providers (STOXX Ltd. and Dow Jones Indexes) and responsible for business development in Central- and Eastern Europe. He founded XENIX in September 2009 in Berlin.