Rebecca Staffas

Looking into how IT can transform and improve all aspects of business. Working with on-the-ground execution as well as M&A advisory. Delivering with quality and love!

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The evidence: a documented summer internship at Nektar Asset Management AB (Jun-Aug 2013), a Swedish hedge-fund manager whose Nektar fund was Sweden's oldest hedge fund (~SEK 10bn AUM, liquidated 2019) - an actual alternative-asset-management/quantitative-strategy employer. The role itself is index-only (LinkedIn-derived enrichment and a LinkedIn profile snippet, not a primary page this run), while the identity is supported by the Sweden IMO 2010/2011 record, KTH 2011-2016 education and the Växjö Katedralskola competition history. No other quantitative-finance employer (bank, asset manager, energy or crypto trading, market-making, systematic/algorithmic trading) was found; the multi-year Netlight role and the Accenture/Prover/Ericsson roles are not quantitative finance. Student programmes alone would not qualify, but Nektar was a paid summer internship, which does.
• Career backbone from the LinkedIn-derived enrichment index: Consultant at Netlight 2016-2021, Manager (Consultant) 2022-, Senior Manager (Consultant) 2025-.2025
• Nektar Asset Management summer internship (Jun-Aug 2013) reported by the LinkedIn-derived index description ('As a summer intern at Nektar, I was tasked with and succeeded in developing a system for regression testing of the in-house software'). Index-only - not yet confirmed on a primary page.2013
• Identity confirmed as the same Sweden IMO contestant: the profile's education (KTH 2011-2016) and Växjö Katedralskola-era competition record line up with the IMO 2010/2011 team member; index-only for the LinkedIn linkage.
• Nektar Asset Management AB is a Swedish hedge fund manager: its 'Nektar' fund was described as Sweden's oldest hedge fund with roughly SEK 10bn AUM and was liquidated in 2019 - a genuine hedge-fund employer, classified here as quantitative/systematic-adjacent alternative asset management.
• Netlight (current employer, netlight.com) is an IT/digital consultancy, not a quantitative-finance firm - the multi-year Netlight tenure is therefore non-quant.
• Other early roles per the enrichment index: Accenture summer intern 2015, Prover Technology summer intern 2014, and master's thesis at Ericsson (lattice-based cryptography for post-quantum applications) 2016 - none of these are quantitative-finance roles.2016
• Awards: IMO 2011 Honourable Mention (rank 282, 15 pts) and IMO 2010 (rank 418, 7 pts), both for Sweden.2011
• Index-only (LinkedIn-derived via the enrichment index, not independently confirmed by a primary page this run): listed as Senior Manager (Consultant) at Netlight, Stockholm; headline 'From confusion to execution @Netlight'.
• Shared first place in the Nordic Mathematical Competition 2011 with 19/20, representing Växjö Katedralskola.Apr 4, 2011
• Won Skolornas matematiktävling final 2010 with 36/42 - the only contestant above 30 points, a clear margin over a tightly packed field.Nov 20, 2010
• Scored a full 2.0 on the Swedish högskoleprov (university entrance exam); covered by Sveriges Radio in Oct 2024 as part of a tips feature.Oct 16, 2024