Brett Olson

Brett Olson, Managing Director, is Head of Fixed Income iShares in EMEA for BlackRock. His cross-functional team is responsible for driving new product innovations and product launches, partnering with fixed income broker/dealers, and developing relationships with new and existing institutional and discretionary wealth investors for fixed income products. Mr. Olson joined BlackRock in 2013 from Nomura where he was a Managing Director leading the distribution efforts for asset-backed securities as well as illiquid securities in Europe. Prior to Nomura, he spent the majority of his financial services career with Lehman Brothers in London. Mr. Olson spent five years in manufacturing in the US, Germany and Italy before he attended business school. Mr. Olson earned a MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1999 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Skidmore College in 1992.