Mark Bjerknes
IT, Technology

Mark Bjerknes has been in the technology and securities industries for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in exchange trading and surveillance systems design, development and implementation. With expertise in capital market structure and regulation, high performance transaction processing, complex event processing, computer performance and capacity, data architecture, and data and IT governance, Mark Bjerknes has worked in technology firms and securities markets in the United States and abroad.

In his career, Mark Bjerknes has overseen capital market automation efforts in developed and emerging economies, designed and developed trading system front-ends and capital market surveillance systems, and worked in...[more]

Mark Bjerknes has been in the technology and securities industries for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in exchange trading and surveillance systems design, development and implementation. With expertise in capital market structure and regulation, high performance transaction processing, complex event processing, computer performance and capacity, data architecture, and data and IT governance, Mark Bjerknes has worked in technology firms and securities markets in the United States and abroad.

In his career, Mark Bjerknes has overseen capital market automation efforts in developed and emerging economies, designed and developed trading system front-ends and capital market surveillance systems, and worked in central positions for both early-stage and mature technology and financial services companies. Early in Mark Bjerknes' career, he worked in the commercial software industry, focusing on product development and product management for an award-winning desktop data management, statistical analysis and scientific graphics product line, where he co-designed and programmed early versions of now-standard exploratory data analysis tools like scatterplot brushing and linked dynamic data graphics and wrote interactive data viewers and macro program language interpreters. He later joined the software and services arm of a U.S. stock exchange, and led a group that developed one of the first thin-client distributed-architecture exchange trading systems. After working on several long-term projects abroad, he returned to join an exchange-based dark pool, where as U.S. equities product manager he worked closely with large buy-side and sell-side clients. Several years later he joined one of the first ECNs approved by the SEC.

Mark Bjerknes has managed full-cycle development and implementation of continuous matching, semi-automated matching, and displayed and dark call auction systems for equities and fixed income products. He has led trading system development and implementation projects for floor-based and automated markets, in both unitary and competing marketplaces, and led full-cycle development and implementation of equities, options and fixed income market surveillance systems for automated and hybrid markets. Mark Bjerknes has guided multi-organizational offshore teams to develop and install exchange trading systems in exchanges on four continents, ensuring success by working closely with market participants and stakeholders to define how various instruments trade in automated environments. [less]