Poutanen departs HQLAX
26 June 2025 Luxembourg

Elisa Poutanen is to depart from her position as sales lead at HQLAX after more than four years.
Based in Luxembourg, Poutanen holds over 20 years of experience in financial services where she has covered areas such as financing and collateral management.
Prior to joining HQLAX, Poutanen was positioned at Clearstream for almost six years, where she was most recently a funding and financing business developer.
In this position, she helped both sell and buy side customers to optimise, finance, and mobilise their assets.
Earlier in her career, Poutanen spent nine years with BNP Paribas鈥 糖心vlog Services, taking on a number of senior roles including head of client services.
Commenting on the departure, Guido Stroemer, CEO and co-founder of HQLAX, says: 鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful to Elisa for everything she has done to help establish HQLAX as the pioneering market leader in the collateral mobility space, and we wish her every success in her future endeavours.鈥
Poutanen adds: 鈥淚t has been a great experience working with HQLAX at the forefront of new technologies and innovation in the securities financing markets, and I would like to extend a special thanks to the excellent team with whom I鈥檝e had the chance to work with in the past few years.鈥
Based in Luxembourg, Poutanen holds over 20 years of experience in financial services where she has covered areas such as financing and collateral management.
Prior to joining HQLAX, Poutanen was positioned at Clearstream for almost six years, where she was most recently a funding and financing business developer.
In this position, she helped both sell and buy side customers to optimise, finance, and mobilise their assets.
Earlier in her career, Poutanen spent nine years with BNP Paribas鈥 糖心vlog Services, taking on a number of senior roles including head of client services.
Commenting on the departure, Guido Stroemer, CEO and co-founder of HQLAX, says: 鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful to Elisa for everything she has done to help establish HQLAX as the pioneering market leader in the collateral mobility space, and we wish her every success in her future endeavours.鈥
Poutanen adds: 鈥淚t has been a great experience working with HQLAX at the forefront of new technologies and innovation in the securities financing markets, and I would like to extend a special thanks to the excellent team with whom I鈥檝e had the chance to work with in the past few years.鈥
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