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Short biography

My name is Kristian Fiskerstrand and I’m currently situated in Norway. I hold a Masters of Science in Business and Economics degree with a major in Finance from the Norwegian School of Management, and work with funding and risk management in the covered bonds department of a Norwegian banking group.

I was born and raised at the west-coast of Norway in a city called Aalesund and moved to Oslo, the nation capital, to attend my studies. As such this is where I currently reside.

Short facts

Date of birth: 1985-08-02
Location: Oslo, Norway

Professional information

Current

Terra Boligkreditt
Funding and risk management
July 2009 - Present
Covered Bonds division of Terra Gruppen, a banking group consisting of 77 savings banks and OBOS (housing cooperative) in Norway.

Specialities:
- Covered Bond issuance
- Treasury / Liquidity management
- OTC swaps and ISDA/CSA agreements
- Programming (including SQL,C++,PHP,VBA)
- Rating Agency methodologies
Augusto International AS / Augusto Cigars
President of the board of directors
January 2010 - Present
Importer of cigars to Norway with a related store and netstore
Kristian Fiskerstrand Web Development ENK (Self-employed)
Manager
2003 - Present
Company dealing with domain registration and web hosting, web development and consultancy services within areas such as computer security.

Past

Terra Boligkreditt
Associate
June 2008 - July 2009
Covered Bonds division of Terra Gruppen, a banking group consisting of 78 savings banks in Norway.
Terra Fondsforvaltning (Funds Management)
August 2006 - October 2008
Asset management division of the Terra Group. My work was much related to the norwegian tax reform regarding "Obligatorisk Tjenestepensjon" (OTP) / Obligatory Service Pensions with a focus on Innskuddsbasert Pensjon (IBP) / Depository based pension as well as ordinary administrative funds management tasks and advisory services.
Sparebanken Møre
2000 – 2002 (two years)
Worked part time in the IT-department helping migrating to a newer production platform across the different offices, as well as generic tech support.

Books authored

Sending Emails - The Safe Way: An introduction to OpenPGP security, 2011

Education

Handelshøyskolen BI / Norwegian School of Management
2004 - 2009
Masters of Science in Business and Economics. Major in Finance with a specialization in Corporate Finance as well as Financial Markets and Investments.

Hobbies

Computers
Experienced when it comes to programming as well as computer security.
Foreign Exchange trading
Currency trading on a daily basis with some hundred positions a month.

Organizational / other board experiences

Sameiet Maridalsveien Park
2006 - present
Board member of a housing complex with 125 units
Møre og Romsdal Unge Høyre
2003 - 2005
Political organization. Served as 2nd vice-president with responsibility for finances from 2003-2004 and continued the finance work during the following period (2004-2005) as an external party.

Contact

I can be reached through the contact form at http://www.kfwebs.net/contact.php