Over a 20-year career in the technology and securities industries, Mark Bjerknes has developed in-depth expertise in exchange trading and surveillance systems design, development and implementation. Specializing in stock market structure and regulation, high performance complex event processing, computer systems performance and capacity, and data and IT governance, Mark Bjerknes has brought this expertise to markets in the United States and overseas.
During his career, Mark Bjerknes has managed stock market automation efforts in industrialized and newly industrializing countries and served in central positions for both startup and mature technology and financial services companies. Early in Mark Bjerknes? career, he worked in the commercial software industry, doing product development and product management for an award-winning desktop product suite, an integrated data management, statistical analysis and scientific graphics platform, where he co-developed early versions of exploratory data analysis tools like scatterplot brushing and linked data graphics and wrote interactive data viewers and macro programming interpreters.