Sales Management

Bjarni Kristjansson

******.************@*****.*** ( 203-***-**** ( 8 A Rippowam Road, Cos

Cob, CT 06807

EXPERIENCE http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjarnikristjans

FX Advisory and Strategist

FX and Treasury Specialist

1/2009 - Current

A contract based advisory/consulting projects on FX/Treasury related

issues. Various Market Micro Structure projects including time series-,

statistical- and regression analysis, liquidity modeling on volume, price

and order flow. Scenario analysis on FX prices in free, restricted and

illiquid markets.

Designing and developing automated execution- and high/medium frequency

algorithmic trading strategies.

Landsbanki

VP - Senior FX Trader / Co-head of spot - New York/ Reykjavik

1/2008 - 1/2009

. Setting up FX Trading desk in NY. Ensuring smooth competitive

professional global pricing.

. Led the globalization effort of the Foreign Exchange business to increase

market share, market visibility with the goal of increasing client volume

and liquidity.

Landsbanki

VP - Senior FX Trader - Reykjavik, Iceland

4/1996 - 1/2008

. Combination of flow and prop trading in over 20 currencies. Proven P/L

track record with average daily volume between USD 500-1,000 MM going

through the books. Trading with directional book risk averaging USD 30-

60 MM.

. Market making and short term risk management. Pricing spot on interbank

market, quoting sales and internal clients. Risk position management.

Hedging, executing order, optimizing the structure of the flow against

the order book and the bank s position in order to maximize profit.

. Managing risk in over 20 currencies, including all major currencies

including EUR, USD, JPY, GBP, CAD and CHF, all Scandinavian currencies

and emerging market currencies.

. Experience in constructing FX baskets and indices, for instance, proxy

baskets and Trade Weighted Index (TWI) for product development.

. Service clients with aggressive liquidity provision and market updates.

Focus on revenue generation from client flow and market opportunities.

. Hedge logically; knows when to realize profits and exits failing

positions appropriately.

. Broad based knowledge and experience in using currency options, FX

swaps and outright forwards as an alternative for position taking

strategies as well as hedging tool to mitigate currency and interest

rate risk. Use FX options as an alternative to reduce spot risk and

protect P/L while providing liquidity in volatile illiquid markets.

. Ran a proprietary book along with market making activities, for majors,

Scandinavian and emg. mkt ccys.

. Good experience in executing trades which are considered too large for

the market.

. Use technical analysis extensively as an alternative for decision making

strategies /trading as well as for analytical purposes. Look heavily at

all macro statistics in an economy.

. Built an extensive contact network among interbank players all over

Europe, America and into the hedge fund industry. Maintain good

relations with Emerging Market brokers around the world.

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA

Double Major: BS Finance & BA Economics

1/1990 - 6/1993

University of Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland

Business Administration

1/1988 -

6/1989

SKILLS

Proficient in Excel, Reuters, EBS and Bloomberg and various other Trading

Platforms

Languages: Fluent in English and Icelandic. Survival in Japanese, German

and Danish.

Good communication skills for client contact, internal and external.

Ability to handle high volume and diverse client base under pressure.

Maturity. Risk taking ability. Market Focused. Team player.

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