Currently CTO at Saxo Bank an investment bank providing online multi asset class trading services for a wide variety of clients. I have a 20 year background as architect and technical leader in the financial services industry working with internet trading platforms, exchange technology, dma broker networks, real time risk management, information distribution and other areas requiring extreme reliability, scalability while retaining low latency, high throughput and maintaining and reaching business requirements. I can translate business strategies and visions into working architectures and programs of transformation work, I can make hard things look simple and is a good communicator of complex concepts. I have a deep understanding of how business operating model and requirements impacts architecture and technology and can help bridge the gaps and translate both ways. I have been paramount in designing and rearchitecting existing and systems of different kinds related to all kinds of trading and riskmanagment for increased scalability and throughput over a number of large projects and programmes of work. Covering multiple years of technology transformation meeting changed business requirements. I have a keen interest in both the academical side of application architecture and distributed systems and the more pragmatic side of actually making things work in reality. Previous employeers and customers include amongst others NeoNet, Swedbank Markets, OMX Technologies, Stockholm Stock Exchange. Specialties: Architecture, Technology, Scalability, Throughput, Distributed systems, Enterprise Architecture, Advisory

CTO @  CTO - Business owner architecture transformation program me across enterprise. Formulation of it strategy. Member of the banks Senior Management Group. Business IT alignment. Experience of performing and being a part of due-diligence activities.  Prime driver and initiator of continuous delivery initiative across the bank to decrease time from code is committed until its live, key themes, test automation, build pipelines and metrics.  Chief Arcitect - Responsible for end to end enterprise architecture, FSA architecture investment programme and member of IT Managment, coaching and mentoring solution architects  deputy CTO - Leading and defining major technology refreshes and architecture revamp programmes to improve latency, scalability  Department head for core server side backend of internet based online trading system with very high demands for availability, performance and scalability. Functionality entailing order-, position-, trade-, margin-, risk- management together with other order routing and management of dozens external brokers and providers.  Architect for highly performing, low latency price distribution mechanism based on a “publish-subscribe” model, using custom communication protocol. Handling prioritization, merging, aggregation of feeds from multiple providers. Highly redundant using a casual consistency model and active-active setup for N systems.  C#,C++,.NET,SQL Server,WCF,TCP/IP,ASP.NET,VB.NET, UDP, Javascript, Publish/subscribe messaging, 29West/Informatica, , boost, stl, protocol design From September 2003 to Present (12 years 4 months) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkBoard member @ Building an innovative platform to automate part of client onboarding process ensuring compliance and optimal classification of clients and relating that information to the legal permissions the institution and providers have. Alleviating you from checklists and expensive legal advice and fully automate classification of clients in regards to local regulation across jurisdictions. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Board member @ Saxo Banks subsidiary office in India providing and extending IT and operational services to Saxo Bank. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Owner @ Free lance consulting mainly in the financial services industry with a range of clients e.g. Swedbank Marktes (online equity trading), NeoNet (discount dma brokerage). Shaped online connectivity to Swedbanks internet trading platform Nettrade in a number of ways. Provided a custom reporting system for the custody function of Swedbank that allowed unparalleled growth of the business. C++, TCP/IP, SQL Server, Windows, Java, VBA From January 1997 to Present (19 years) Stockholm, SwedenSenior Technology Advisor @ Served as advisor of a startup in the border between medical services and technology business build up their core product and data collection platform. I built and designed the technology and data collection backend to define self assessment surveys also worked on scoping and defining different increments of the platform to support clinical studies. Formulating and articulating business strategies into technology plans and implementations. From August 2007 to February 2012 (4 years 7 months) Angelholm, SwedenConsultant @ A heavy influencer in shaping next generation of NeoNets trading system focusing on latency, throughput, performance and resilience. Writing connectors/interfaces to several exchanges worldwide. Providing coaching and mentoring around architecture and technology. C++, TCP/IP, SQL Server, Windows, boost, stl From 1999 to 2003 (4 years) Stockholm, SwedenVice President (vice VD)/Founding partner @ Company founder and leader, doing a lot of strategy and sales work along with consulting mainly in the financial services industry with a range of clients e.g. Swedbank Marktes (online equity trading), NeoNet (discount dma brokerage). From November 1999 to March 2002 (2 years 5 months) Stockholm, SwedenTechnical Product Manager/System developer @ Lead developer of next generation tradingnsystem front-end Saxess Trader. Advanced client-server architecture allowing exchange members full access to all features of the back-end trading system. Was instrumental in two major revisions of the Saxess trader and migrating to the new groundbreaking SAX2000 trading system. C++, TCP/IP, SQL Server, Windows, MFC From April 1997 to April 1999 (2 years 1 month) Solution Architect @ Worked in a consultant role across the financial industry around portfolio and mutual fund management system, leading the design of a wide range reporting and calculation solutions. Instrumental in the architecture of a next generation product for portfolio managment. From June 1994 to April 1997 (2 years 11 months) Stockholm, Sweden

MSc, Computer science and engineering @ Kungliga tekniska högskolan From 1991 to 1996 Naturvetenskaplig Linje, Gymnasiet @ Nacka Gymnasium From 1987 to 1990 Michel André is skilled in: Enterprise Architecture, Architecture, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Low Latency, Influential, Technical Leadership, Thought Leadership, Trading Systems, Electronic Trading, FX trading, Equity Trading, IT Management, IT Strategy, Trading