Jan Meidell

Professor Dr. Jan Erik Meidell is professor at Business School Lausanne (BSL) and lecturer at HEG Geneva, the Applied University of Sciences in Seoul and at IMD with courses in finance, statistics, data analysis and AI. Next to his academic duties, Prof. Dr. Meidell is director at the software company Lexigo.

His former experience includes positions as CFO and CEO (approved director with Swiss Financial Authorities) from finance (investment) and industry. In his early career, he was active as a derivative market maker (high frequency, proprietary trading) on European and US exchanges, where he was part of teams developing AI trading strategies for trading. More recently and before retiring into academics and software development, he was an active entrepreneur and active in three start-ups: building professional trading software, starting fund investment, and in the packing and beverage industry.

He completed the Swiss National Bank’s PhD course in economics and econometrics for doctoral students and has a PhD from NHH (Norwegian School of Economics) and the University of Lausanne.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) (2009 — 2016)
• Program for Doctoral Students in Economics Swiss National Bank Study Center - Gerzensee (2005 — 2006)
• PhD Student, Teaching and Research Assistant HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (2005 — 2008)
• Master in Economics HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (2001 — 2002)
• Bachelor Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg (1989 — 1993)

Companies

• University Lecturer HEG (2020)
• Visiting Lecturer aSSIST(Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies) (2018)
• Director Lexigo Software (2012)
• Visiting Lecturer IMD Business School (2018 — 2021)
• CEO SmartSeal Closures (2011 — 2017)
• Founding Partner Heimdal Forvaltning (2009 — 2015)
• CFO SmartSeal AS (2009 — 2011)
• CFO 11 Invest SA (2008 — 2009)
• CFO BPT Trading SA (2002 — 2005)