Jarkko Järvitalo

Founding Partner, CEO

+358 10 320 8950

Jarkko has worked in finance for 15 years. He started his career in 1998 working at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Arvopaperikeskus) in money market settlement. Later he worked in project management, and among other things, led the development of the current settlement system (HEXClear). After working at the Finnish CSD, Jarkko moved to Handelsbanken to head the Global Custody operations in Finland. He transferred to Stockholm to Handelsbanken’s Markets department in 2007 and was responsible for their securities lending activities for Finnish clients. After Handelsbanken, Jarkko continued at Nordea Markets with similar tasks. In the summer of 2012 Jarkko decide to become an entrepreneur.

For several years now, Jarkko has also given lectures in mathematics on preparatory courses for business school applicants (Valmennuskeskus). Jarkko sees this as a good way to clear his thoughts from work. In his free time Jarkko enjoys swimming.

Education

Master of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki, majored in economics, minored in mathematics and statistics.

Language skills

• Finnish
• English
• French
• Swedish