Lars Tvede, a Danish national, holds a master's degree in engineering and a bachelor's degree in international commerce. He spent eleven years as derivatives trader, portfolio manager, and investment banker before moving to the telecommunication and software industries in the mid 1990s, where he cofounded and seed-funded a number of high-tech companies. He returned to the financial industry at the start of 2005 to become general partner and fund manager in the Swiss hedge fund company Provalue. Tvede has published several books on general economics, marketing, telecommunication, and trading, including the bestseller The Psychology of Finance. He now lives in Zug, Switzerland.
