Ronald Gould

Ronald Gould is Chief Executive Officer of ABG Sundal Collier ASA. ABGSC is a specialist investment bank with activities in stockbroking services, investment research and corporate finance focused on the Nordic region. Prior to ABG, he was Senior Executive Vice President and Managing Director of AXA Investment Managers, the AXA Group holding company for investment management activities. His career in the investment business includes research, portfolio management, institutional and mutual fund business development. Gould was the founder of one of the first international investment groups in the US, one of the first foreign owned Trust Banks in Japan and successful investment management companies in both Japan and the UK. He was previously responsible for the international investment activities of Barclays as vice chairman of the investment group as well as chief executive of Barclays Bank Trust Company. Mr. Gould is an economics graduate of Washington University. He is a director of a several specialist investment funds and an active member of investment industry organisations in Europe, Japan and the US. Married with two children, Gould is an avid sailor, an undistinguished skier and an active consumer of Japanese history.