Lars Kragh - Managing Director

Lars Kragh is a Managing Director of Evest Venture Partners. Mr. Kragh has over twenty years experience in financial technology. As a co-founder and executive at NYFIX Inc., Mr. Kragh held a variety of technical leadership roles throughout the company’s history, most recently as Chief Information Officer from July 1999 to 2005. Prior to 1999, Mr. Kragh was Executive Vice President of Research and Development and held other technology management positions since the company was founded in 1991.

As lead technologist for NYFIX, Mr. Kragh managed a product portfolio ranging from equity Order Management Systems (OMS), market making workstations, trade routing engines and network services. With detailed knowledge of products’ interaction, including cross division values and overlap issues, Mr. Kragh possesses in depth equity industry knowledge spanning market structure, exchanges, broker/dealers and asset management firms in addition to detailed design and architecture expertise across various subject matters including Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), execution quality, networking and display mechanisms. Mr. Kragh directed all production technology including data centers and network and was responsible for mission critical infrastructure vital to the financial industry.

Prior to 1991 Mr. Kragh developed network and transactional systems for the banking industry involving numerous trading system integrations with global telecom and market data providers. He has filed a number of patents around innovative technical and business concepts over the last 15 years. Mr. Kragh holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Danish University of Technology.

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