Peter Hansen - Chairman

Peter Kilbinger Hansen is the Chairman of the Evest group of companies, which includes Evest Venture Partners, Evest Capital, EvestMAC and Evest Investment Management Partners. Throughout his twenty-plus year career, Mr. Hansen founded several private and public companies (American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq), including domestic and international broker/dealers, a clearing corporation and a leading US equity institutional stock-crossing Alternative Trading System (ATS).

Under Mr. Hansen’s leadership, and continuing today, the businesses he founded process significant daily market share volumes representing USD 10 - 25 Billion in daily transactions. Mr. Hansen has been a featured speaker and a panelist for many domestic and international conferences for the brokerage and institutional investor industry over the past 15 years. Principal topics included modernization of the equity marketplace, equity transaction processing, transaction cost and effectively locating liquidity for transactions. Mr. Hansen has also been featured on CNN globally, speaking on the topic of risk management.

Mr. Hansen possesses significant global operations, compliance and financial transaction processing experience. He has lead several equity financings, including public and private offerings, and successful financings including major investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, UBS, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Wachovia, and ING, among others. Mr. Hansen has also lead several acquisitions and divestitures.

As a private investor and financial technology entrepreneur, Mr. Hansen continues to invest in several financial services and technology companies. A native of Denmark, he has been a United States resident for close to 20 years. Mr. Hansen holds a degree in Economics from Niels Brock Business School of Copenhagen and an associated degree in economics from the Copenhagen University of Language and Economics.

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