Manfred Schweda

generizon’s activities focus on sustainable energy projects with a main emphasis on biomass and biogas developments. generizon provides in-depth analyzing capabilities to determine profitability and feasibility. With its European technology partners, generizon finds adequate solutions for the needs and opportunities of its clients; together with international financial institutions the company may raise equity and debt financing. generizon's brings industrial-scale green power generation to Africa.

The distribution of renewable energy projects from solar to biogas to Africa and Latin America, thus the employment of environmental technologies are core pursuit of MSConex. Casablanca Metropolis serves as a central, chosen base, for a start, and Morocco as the gateway to grander Africa. Activity centers around representing European companies active in the Maghreb, consulting Moroccan businesses in Europe and thirdly facilitating Sub-Saharan engagements of the two. MSConex connects.

Photographer/Writer. Career change after 12 years in financial markets. Creator of www.thisfabtrek.com - Travel Photography in West Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Europe. Publication of some two hundred researched short stories, social criticisms, elaborations on travels, cultures, politics, religions of the world. Professional Photography on cultural events, music and theater festival, performance art, exhibitions and parades.

Emerging Markets Interest Rate Derivatives Trading. Running of the Fixed Income EEMEA Local Markets Trading Desk. Head of a group of four, trading bonds and derivatives in CZK, PLN, HUF, SKK, ZAR and TRY (award Risk Magazine 2003). The derivatives desk became instrumental for establishing the Bank's new issue business, structuring and placing local markets Euro bonds in the region.

Financial Markets Trading, Emerging Markets, Derivatives Trading. Senior Trader, Eastern European Local Markets (award Risk Magazine 2001) and South Africa. Main responsibilities covered market making, position taking and structuring in CZK, PLN, HUF and ZAR in IRS, CCS, FRAs, trading included Bonds and FX. Sole responsibility for the technical creation of all pricing and risk-management spread-sheets for derivatives and bond trading.

Financial Broker, for Euro Interest Rate Swaps.

Senior trader, head of a group of four. Central role on the desk in terms of market direction and support of other traders. Watching over convergence of constituent-currencies and the EUR introduction, significant share in achieving a reputation for the bank as a significant player in the EUR swaps and FRA market, amongst clients and counter-parties. Position involved running proprietary positions, market-making to the inter-bank market, quoting and pricing deals for sales.

Setting up the bank's ECU and FRF swaps books (market-making, proprietary trading). Building up the bank's name as an ECU house (award Risk Magazine 1997). Market-making, proprietary trading in ATS and DEM swaps. Involved in risk management systems decisions, creation of important risk management and pricing tools.

From 1993 responsible for trading the bank's swaps book in DEM, ATS and CHF, market making in ATS. Driving force behind a major overhaul of risk management systems and establishment of the same. In the end head of a group of four.

Consultant in IBM's PC Hotline, client problem solving, holding of computer seminars.

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Operating special equipment (tongs), for casing and tubing jobs for oil-rigs and pipelines in Syria.

Operating special equipment (tongs), for casing and tubing jobs for oil-rigs in Algeria.

Warehouse roustabout, operating special equipment (tongs), for casing and tubing jobs for oil-rigs.

Buildings Construction

International business, finance Master's thesis: A Review of Stock Option Pricing Models and its Application on Options traded on the newly established Austrian Futures and Options Exchange.

Physics, French