Dr Petra Wikstrom

Dr. Petra Wikstrom is a Business Development Executive with Capitolis since July 2020. With industry experience across asset classes and a track record in trade execution analytics and specialist sales she is focusing on expanding the buy side sales efforts and Capitolis’ relationships with the asset management and hedge fund communities. She is the former Global Head of Execution & Alpha Solutions within FXLM & Commodity Derivatives Sales and Trading at BNP Paribas in New York, NY. Previously she was the Head of QSI North America within FXEM Sales and Structuring at Morgan Stanley in New York, and the former Global Head Quant Solutions at RBS (now NatWest) in Greenwich, CT, and London, England. Petra holds a PhD in Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics, from the Department of Mechanics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities.