Patrik Edsparr

Chief Investment Officer, Co-Founder at Tor Investment Management

Speaker

Patrik Edsparr is the Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder of Tor Investment Management, a leading independent alternative credit manager in Asia. With over 30 years of direct finance and investment management experience, Patrik is responsible for portfolio construction, risk management and chairs the Investment Committee.

Patrik spent most of his professional career at JP Morgan Chase & Co., building and managing the Proprietary Positioning and Principal Investing Division. At JP Morgan, his responsibilities included the distressed, mezzanine and special-situations investments across North America, Europe, and Asia. Patrik was a long-serving member of the Executive Committee and the Investment Bank’s Management Committee. In addition, he served on the Capital and Risk Committees. Previous roles at JP Morgan included Co-head of North American Markets (2004–2006) and Global Co-head of Fixed Income (2006–2008). In 2008 Patrik joined Citadel Investment Group as the Global Head of Fixed Income and CEO of Citadel Europe. From 2010-2011, he spent a year as Visiting Fellow at the Bank of England providing advice on a variety of market-structure and capital issues.

Patrik holds a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He received an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, and a BA from Uppsala University. He was a lieutenant in the Swedish Army, where he served at the Swedish Defence Language School. Patrik has also served as a Non-Executive Director of MTS S.p.A. and Nomura International (and chaired its Board Risk Committee).