Carsten Borring is Associate Vice President Listings EMEA and Head of Listings & Capital Markets, NASDAQ Copenhagen. Carsten has gained a broad knowledge of financial transactions in Corporate Finance departments at Gudme Raaschou and Alfred Berg before joining the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. - Copenhagen Stock Exchange is together with the exchanges in Sweden, Iceland, Finland and the Baltic countries today part of Nasdaq. Mr. Borring were the architect behind the establishment of the Nasdaq First North market in 2005 – today the Nasdaq junior market has more than 350 companies listed in the Nordics. Carsten is a member of the governments Entrepreneur Panel, the Danish national jury of Entrepreneur of the Year by EY and the jury of FSRs CSR/ESG award, and a board member of the independent think tank Center for ESG Research. Carsten was born in 1968 has an educational background as a cand.merc. in Finance & Accounting from CBS, and Essentials of Management Certification Program from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.