Euroclear Sweden has appointed Jörgen Olofsson as the new chief technology officer and chief information officer, effective in November.
Olofsson will be part of the Euroclear Sweden Executive Committee and will be reporting to the Euroclear Sweden CEO Rodger Storm
Currently, he serves as group chief information officer at Enento Group. He has also gained extensive IT experience from Svenska Spel.
Olofsson has also held various senior positions at the Swedish Tax Authority and the Swedish Defence.
Commenting on the appointment, Storm says: "I am very pleased to welcome Jörgen Olofsson to Euroclear. His digital transformation expertise and leadership in system modernisation and change programs will be a true value-add for our business.”
Olofsson is replacing Kamal Iberraken who has been in the role for five years and is returning to the Euroclear parent company in Brussels.
Last month, Euroclear’s three central securities depositories in France, Belgium and the Netherlands (ESES CSDs) rolled out a new shareholder identification service called InvestorInsight.
