Björn Eckert Email & Phone Number

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

♦Head of Sales Denmark and Norway. ♦Assigned to expand and establish CtrlPrint's successful business in new markets. ♦Overall business and staff management.

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden

A most extensive, very thorough five weeks C-level sales education held inLondon.

Stockholm, Sweden

♦Sales at Structured Finance (structured products), a part of Private Banking♦Third party distribution♦Chairman of the product council managing the public offering♦Final saying in external macro texts and presentationsSales at Structured Finance (structured products), a part of Private Banking.Third party distribution, preferably through securities companies, banks and asset managers. I generated approximately 200 MSEK on my accounts during my last year of employment.Chairman of the product council managing the public offeringI chaired the council that formed the prevailing public offering, considering the current market and interest rates, changes in regulations, demand from distributors, competition and my own research.Final saying in external macro texts and presentationsGiven input from our macro economist and drafts from origination, I completed our official, prevailing presentation of the public offerings.

Stockholm, Sweden

♦Founding Partner, director sales, marketing and external communication. Supervisor ♦Third party distribution♦Recruitment of an external board of directors♦Branch Manager Norway♦Launch in SwedenFounding Partner in the securities companyWe set up the company, applied for and received the regulatory permission needed for securities companies, established a custody system, I acted the specifier for a digital order management system, OakTrader, which was ahead of its time.Director sales, marketing and external communication. SupervisorIdea generation, packaging, analysis, marketing and sales of structured products. Third party distribution, preferably IFA’s and asset managers. Volumes kick started initially and we reached breakeven in the operating part (investments set aside) during our first quarter in business. Final saying in external macro economy texts and presentations.Recruitment of an external board of directorsI used my network and presented a highly competent, renowned, senior, external board to the start-up company.Branch Manager NorwayThe business was significantly bigger in Norway than in Sweden.Launch in Sweden during the fall of 2007I planned, arranged and implemented the rollout event in Sweden (Konserthuset).

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

♦Responsible for Nordic Sales♦Responsible for third party distribution♦Business DevelopmentResponsible for Nordic SalesEstablishment and sales of E*TRADE Sverige’s cross border business in Finland. E*TRADE is an online broker and also served a great number of daytraders in Stockholm. My task was to identify and to close agreements with strategic partners. Management and control of their work. I established a day trading office in Helsinki, Finland.Responsible for third party distribution of structured productsIdea generation, packaging, analysis, marketing and sales.Business DevelopmentPreparation of new ways of distributing E*TRADE’s mutual funds and trading platform, through the incorporation in Max Matthiessen’s platform

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

♦Team leader - business and personnel♦Marketing responsibility for the entire group♦Senior Account Manager (KAM)♦Ordering and managing of projectsTeam leader - business and personnelManager of a team of 8-10 employees. The team managed customers’ installations/versions of the software solution AbaSecurities. Overall business responsibility, additional sales, further development and support was included in my responsibility. Approximately 20 MSEK in annual revenue.Marketing responsibilityResponsible for the entire group’s external communication.Senior Account Manager (KAM)Business and P&L-responsibility for SEB and Danske Bank plus a number of mutual fund companies and asset managers. The responsibility included Abaris’s whole engagement and contact towards the customer during purchase and management.Ordering and managing of projectsWhen SEB bought the source code of our portfolio management system.

Stockholm, Sweden

♦Sales management♦Sales coaching♦Asset managementSales management, Sales coachingI set a new structure for the sales work and helped new sales people get their act together. Requirements and design of an in-house CRM-solution. Web editor.Asset managementNew customer sales, account management and discretionary management. Large context presentations for potential investors.

Stockholm, Sweden

SalesSales of financial solutions through third parties. Negotiations with large institutional clients acting as the distributors’ financial agent.

Stockholm, Sweden

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Thesis on Service Quality in the Oil Industry (C) Thesis on Internationalization of a Service Organisation (D)

High School, Honor Roll

Activities and Societies: Exchange student The most defining year of my life. Very inspiring!