Alexandra Tessari
Poland Head of Markets & Securities Services Technology
Panelist
Alexandra Tessari has worked for HSBC Global Banking and Markets Technology since 2006. The first 6 years she worked as a tactical software developer on the trading floors of Paris, New York and London building mostly pricing and volatility tools for traders. Later in 2013 she became IT project manager for a vendor Equity derivatives trading application used by traders internally. This happened at the time a new initiative in Equities technology was launched, to start building our core trading applications in house. After a successful demise of the vendor application in 2016 Alex moved fully into the in house electronic trading development team and eventually led the team in London working closely with globally distributed teams. In 2019 she relocated to Krakow and in early 2021 she was promoted to Poland Head of Markets & Securities Services Technology, where she has been leading a division of 340 IT experts.
Alex is Canadian, naturalised French and naturalised British, having lived roughly a third of her life in each country. She loves working for such a global organisation with such rich cultural diversity. She is active in Women in tech events, as well as LGBT Pride activities. Last year, she has been recognised in the Strong Women in IT Report 2021, highlighting 200 women leaders from the non-governmental organizations, corporates and start-ups who contribute to the high-tech industry in Poland.