EURONEXT BRUSSELS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Risk Director and Secretary of the Risk and Sustainability Committee at Cassa Depositi
Alessandra Ferone is a member of the Supervisory Board, a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the Risk Committee. She was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2021.
Alessandra Ferone is Risk Director and Secretary of the Risk and Sustainability Committee at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) Group which is also in charge of assessing ESG risks. In addition she is a Non-Executive Director at Saipem, where she is also a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. From 2016 to 2019 she served as Chief Financial Officer for the real estate business of the CDP Group. Prior to that, from 2012 to 2016 she headed the Public Interest Financing at CDP business at CDP Group. Previously, she held a number of positions within CDP, Banca OPI (Intesa SanPaolo Group), SanPaoloIMI Private Equity, BancaIMI, Telecom Italia Mobile and Coopers & Lybrand. From 2017 to 2019 she was a Non-Executive Director at SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency.
Ms Ferone holds a degree in Economics and Business (summa cum laude) from the University of Naples and obtained the chartered accountant professional qualification in Italy.
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- Head of Business Development
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Director / Independent Non - Executive
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- Chief Talent Officer
- Member of the Managing Board
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Board Committees
Elected to the Board of Directors in 2022
Domain Architect
Development - Issuance
+45 2844 3889
ABPedersen@euronext.com
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- Executive Vice President, Sydbank
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- Manager in Sector & Infrastructure, Nordea
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- Member of the Managing Board
- CEO of
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- Head of Investor Services, SEB
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- Member of the Management Team
- Head of Euronext Securities LRGA Copenhagen and Oslo
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- Chairman
- Executive
- Member of the Managing Board
- Global Head of Derivatives & Post Trade
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- Member of the Managing Board
- Chief Communications and Investor Relations Officer
- Chief Investor Relations and Communications Officer
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- CEO
- Member of the Managing Board
- Law ( KULeuven ) and an International Executive
Mr van den Hove is CEO of Euronext Brussels and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V.
Previously, he was Head of Listing of Euronext Brussels. Mr van den Hove has more than 20 years of experience in various roles in capital markets' and financial markets' roles, advising Belgian and international clients on the financing topic through capital markets' transactions. Prior to joining Euronext, he spent 17 years at ING, a Benelux bank. In his last role, he was the Belgian Head of the Legal Financial Markets' team of ING as well as the Product Head of Capital Markets. He started his career as a lawyer at Linklaters.
Mr Van den Hove holds a Master's Degree in Law (KULeuven) and an International Executive MBA (Louvain School of Management).
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- Member of the Managing Board
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- Investor Relations Manager
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- Head of Sales & Relationship Management
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- Member of the Risk Committee
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- Member of the Managing Board
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- CEO
- Member of the Managing Board
Delphine d'Amarzit is CEO of Euronext Paris and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V.
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- Member of the Supervisory Board and a Member
Diana Chan is a member of the Supervisory Board and a member of the following committees: Audit Committee, Risk Committee, Nomination and Governance Committee and Remuneration Committee. She was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2021.
Ms Chan was most recently an Independent Director of Euroclear SA/NV. Prior to that, she was Chief Executive of European Central Counterparty Limited and European Central Counterparty N.V. (EuroCCP) from 2007 to 2018, where she played a leading role in transforming the industry through competitive clearing. She headed EuroCCP from its inception at the start of pan-European equities clearing to its becoming the largest equities CCP in Europe. By the time she left EuroCCP in 2018, it had become the most connected central counterparty for equities trades, with access to around 30 national stock exchanges and multilateral trading facilities where nearly 90% of equities trades are executed.
Ms Chan has worked in the post-trade sector almost her entire career - gaining experience from all segments of the post-trade value chain, from market infrastructures to various intermediaries serving clients investing worldwide. From 2003 to 2015, she was an active member of various industry expert groups set up by the European Central Bank, European Commission and European Securities and Markets Authority to consult and advise on post-trade issues. She contributed to the removal of complex barriers to efficient cross-border investment within the European Union.
Prior to 2007, Ms Chan worked at Euroclear Operations Centre, JP Morgan, Bank of New York, and Citi. At these institutions, she had a variety of global and regional management roles in Europe, America and Asia, with responsibilities for strategy, market policy, product management, network management and financial control.
Ms Chan has been a volunteer throughout her career in charities that alleviate hunger and poverty. While CEO of EuroCCP, she organised the annual Women Leaders in Financial Infrastructure conference help aspiring women in the financial industry reach their career potential. She currently serves as Corporate Advisor to PAWA, a volunteer-led charity that raises funds for grass-roots projects which promote inclusive and equitable quality education.
Ms Chan was born in The People's Republic of China and is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and Harvard Business School.
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- Vice - Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Dick Sluimers is the vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board, chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Risk Committee. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2016. He is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Euronext Amsterdam N.V.
Mr Sluimers is the former CEO of APG Group. He currently is the chairman of the Supervisory Board of NIBC B.V. and a member of the Supervisory Board of AkzoNobel N.V., as well as a member of the board of directors of FWD Holdings Group Limited. He is a senior advisor of Bank of America, a member of the advisory board of Quore Capital, a member of the European Advisory Board of Equitix Investment Management Ltd., and an advisor to Arrow Global Group Plc. Furthermore, Mr Sluimers is a member of the board of Governors of the State Academy of Finance and Economics.
Mr Sluimers was CFO and later CEO in the management board of pension fund ABP from 2003 to 2008. Between 1991 and 2003 he held various positions at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, most recently as Director General of the Budget. Prior to that he was Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Public Health and held senior positions at the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Finance. In addition, he was a member of the Supervisory Boards of Fokker N.V., the National Investment Bank N.V., Inter Access N.V. and ABP Insurance N.V. He was also Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS), a member of the Advisory Board of Rabobank, Chairman of the board of Governors of the Postgraduate Programme for Treasury Management at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a member of the Advisory Board of Netspar and a Board member of Holland Financial Centre.
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- Member of the Management Team
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- Chairman
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
- Member of the Managing Board
- Vice Chairman
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- Senior Relationship Manager
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- Executive Director, Network Management, Clearstream Banking
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- Trader / Trading Solutions
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- Director / Independent Non - Executive
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- Senior Relationship Manager
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- Head of Back Office, Jyske Bank
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- Member of the Management Team
- Customer Relations & Sales Director
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- CEO
- Member of the Managing Board
- CEO of Euronext Lisbon
Isabel Ucha is CEO of Euronext Lisbon, CEO of Interbolsa (the Custody and Settlement service provider (CSD) for the Portuguese market) and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V.
Isabel Ucha has been the CEO of Euronext Lisbon since May 2019. Having joined the Portuguese Stock Exchange in 2008, her previous professional experience includes several senior roles, including serving as Advisor for Economic Affairs to the Prime Minister, Head of Issuing and Markets at the Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency (IGCP), and at the Portuguese securities market regulator (CMVM). Isabel has also been an assistant lecturer at Universidade Católica, teaching different economic and financial programs (Economics, Corporate Finance, Economics of Finance, Economics of Regulation, European Economics, Portuguese Economy, Corporate Governance).
Isabel holds a degree in Economics from Universidade Católica and a Masters in Economics from Universidade Nova, as well as a Masters in Finance from London Business School.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Chairman of the Committee
- Member of Board Committees
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Board Committees
- Platform Specialist
Re-elected to the Board of Directors in 2022
Platform Specialist
+4543588977
jhlauritsen@euronext.com
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- Sales & Relationship Manager
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Client Representative: BNP Arbitrage
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Representative
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- Head of Banking and Markets, Danmarks Nationalbank
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- Member of the Managing Board
- Head of Primary Markets & Corporate Services
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- Head of Payments & Investments, Operations, Nykredit
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- Head of Back Office, Ringkjøbing Landbobank
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- President and CEO of If P & C Insurance Company
Morten Thorsrud is a member of the Supervisory Board, chairs the Risk Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2019..
Mr Thorsrud is the President and CEO of If P&C Insurance Company, a position he has held since 2019. He has been with the company in various roles since 2002. In addition, he has been a member of the Sampo Group Executive Committee since 2006, and a member of the Sampo Managing Directors Committee, a member of the Board of Finance Norge and a member of the Board of Topdanmark, all since 2019, as well as member of the Board of Hastings Group since 2020. Previously, from 1996 to 2002, he was with McKinsey & Company, most recently as an Associate Partner. Mr Thorsrud has a Master of Business and Economics from the Norwegian School of Management.
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- Chairs the Remuneration Committee
- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Non - Executive Director at Veolia Environnement
Nathalie Rachou is a member of the Supervisory Board, chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee. She was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2019.
Ms Rachou is a Non-Executive Director at Veolia Environnement (since 2012) and UBS Group (since 2020). In 1999, she founded Topiary Finance Ltd, an asset management company based in London, of which she remained the CEO until its merger with Rouvier Associés in 2015. She stayed on at Rouvier Associés-Clartan as a Senior Advisor until 2020. Prior to that, from 1978 to 1999, she held a number of positions within Banque Indosuez and Crédit Agricole Indosuez, mostly in capital markets. She was a Non-Executive Director at Laird plc from 2016 to 2018, at Société Générale from 2008 to 2020 and at Altran from 2012 to 2020. In 2023 she joined Fondation Leopold Bellan, a French NGO managing 75 medical establishments mostly for handicapped and dependant people, as a Non-Executive Director. In 2020, she was a founding member of Chapter Zero France, an NGO part of the Climate Governance Initiative. Ms Rachou has a Masters in Management at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and completed an executive programme at INSEAD.
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- Member of the Managing Board
- Head of Cash Equity and Data Services
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Management Team
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- Securities Country Manager, Citi
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
Olivier Sichel is a member of the Supervisory Board. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2021.
Olivier Sichel is a graduate from ESSEC Business School, Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris) and an alumnus of the ENA (National School of Administration).
Starting out in 1994 as a Finance Inspector in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, he became director of a France Télécom agency in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Alapage.com, a pioneering e-commerce company and subsidiary of Wanadoo, whose Chairman and CEO he later became in 2002. He then oversaw the integration of the French Internet access leader into the parent company, France Télécom, where he became Executive Director of the Landline & Internet Europe Division. Having made it the number two ADSL provider worldwide, he left the company in 2006, after launching the triple play services with Livebox and VOIP.
As a Partner of the venture capital firm Sofinnova from 2006 to 2012, he supervised investments in innovative tech businesses. He particularly worked on developing diverse platforms and open source stakeholders. He also performed a range of financial transfers or IPO transactions. In 2012 he became Chairman and CEO of the European leader for online shopping guides, LeGuide.com, which he sold to Kelkoo in 2016.
Mindful of the oligopolistic development of the Internet, he has since committed to championing an open and humanistic European perception of the web. As such, in 2015, he founded the Digital New Deal Foundation, a think-tank dedicated to the tech sector which proposed a Digital Pact to the presidential election candidates. Since January 2018, he has been Deputy CEO of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, overseeing the group's strategic subsidiaries and holdings (seating on the Board of some of them including La Poste, Transdev, or CDC Habitat). In May 2018, he also became Head of CDC's Banque des Territoires, providing financing and advisory to local administrations, corporates, and projects throughout France.
Under Mr Sichel's leadership, Banque des Territoires has been playing a pivotal role in the sustainable and inclusive transition of the French economy. For example, since its creation in 2018, Banque des Territoires has financed the installation of over 5,700 MW of renewable energy production capacity, as well as the refurbishment of 100 000 social housing units and 165,000 public buildings.
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- Member of Chapter Zero
- Member of the Supervisory Board, a Member
Padraic O'Connor is a member of the Supervisory Board, a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2018. He previously was the Chairman of the Irish Stock Exchange.
Mr O'Connor began his career in economic roles at the Department of Finance and the Central Bank of Ireland. He was Chief Economist at NCB Group between 1987 and 1991 when he became Managing Director of the Group. He oversaw the sale of the stockbroking and corporate finance group to Nat West Bank, which completed in 1999. He became Chairman of ACC Bank in 1999 and guided its strategic reorientation and sale to Rabobank in 2002. He served on the Board of Rabobank Ireland from 2002 until 2016. Mr. O'Connor was a director of Eircom plc and Beazley plc and chaired the Boards of a number of asset management companies, including LGIM Europe Ltd and Fideuram Asset Management Ireland Ltd.
Mr O'Connor is a member of Chapter Zero, The Directors Climate Forum.
He holds primary and postgraduate degrees in Economics from University College Dublin.
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Director / Independent Non - Executive
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- Head of Business Development Issuers
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- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Piero Novelli is the chairman of the Supervisory Board, chairs the Nomination and Governance Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2021.
Mr Novelli was Co-President of the Investment Bank of UBS and a member of UBS Group Executive Board ("GEB") from 2018 to 2021. He was appointed Co-Executive Chairman of Global Investment Banking in 2017 after becoming sole Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions in 2016. Mr Novelli was a member of the UBS Deutschland AG Supervisory Board from 2013 to 2016. Mr Novelli rejoined UBS in 2013 as Chairman of Global M&A and Group Managing Director, after having served as Global Co-Head of M&A at Nomura from 2011 to 2013. He was Global Head of M&A at UBS between 2004 and 2009. Prior to joining UBS, Mr Novelli worked for Merrill Lynch for eleven years where he advanced from Associate to Managing Director and Head of European M&A and Head of European Industrials.
Over the course of his 27-year career in investment banking, Mr Novelli has advised corporate boards on many large and complex M&A transactions across all sectors and geographic areas. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at Imperial College London.
During his tenure as UBS Group Executive Board member Mr Novelli was very active in DEI as the GEB representative of the BAME (i.e. Black, Asian and minority ethnic) community at UBS through the employee network MOSAIC. Under his leadership, MOSAIC grew from 60 members in the UK to a global community of 6,000 UBS employees fully engaged in many innovative DEI initiatives. Mr Novelli was also the GEB member representing the growing LGBTQ community of Swiss employees at UBS.
Mr Novelli is currently Supporting Chairman of Chapter Zero France (Climate Governance Initiative).
Mr Novelli holds a master's degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Managing Board
- Member of Board Committees
Elected to the Board of Directors in 2020
Head of Central Securities Depositories, Euronext
Dependent member
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- Member of the Management Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Board Committees
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Member of the Supervisory Board
Rika Coppens is a member of the Supervisory Board, a member of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee. She was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2021. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Euronext Brussels S.A./N.V. and a member of the Supervisory Board of Euronext Amsterdam N.V.
Rika Coppens obtained a master's degree in commercial engineering at the University of Leuven, whereafter she kicked off her career as audit manager at PWC and CFO at Bureau Van Dijk Computer Services. Next to that, Ms Coppens was CFO at Zenitel and EFR Group (currently Eurogarages), where she became CEO. In 2017 she moved to the HR-world as CEO of House of HR and Accent Jobs. Since October 2020 she is fully concentrating on her CEO-role at House of HR. Under her guidance, the group realised a strong growth strategy and high profitability, with a focus on specialised niche markets and innovative HR-applications.
Ms Coppens has gained a vast experience in international mergers and acquisitions, audit and finance, with a keen eye for innovative business development, female entrepreneurship and ‘human resourcefulness'. She calls herself ‘missionary of work', holding a warm plea for work as the driving force behind wellbeing and welfare. She is a sought-after speaker and opinion leader in the world of entrepreneurship and HR. Within House of HR, Ms Coppens also founded the JobRoad Foundation, focusing on finding a job for people with a longer distance to the labour market, in this way advocating that work is a means to integration in society.
Ms Coppens started in 2016 as independent director at House of HR, where she held the position of chair of the audit committee. She was also active as Board member and member of the audit committee in Realdolmen, until it was acquired by GfI Group (currently Inetum). She currently is a non-executive board member at Colruyt Group and chair of the Audit Committee and a non-executive board member at La Lorraine Bakery group, both entities having also a strong focus on sustainability, mainly in saving energy in facilities, the production or transportation process relating to food production and retail and in sustainable agriculture.
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Clearing Member Representative: Intesa Sanpaolo
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- CEO
- Executive
- General Manager
- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Clearing Member Representative: Unicredit
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Client Representative
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- Head of Risk Management & Membership
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- Business Development Manager
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- Member of the Managing Board
- CEO of Euronext Amsterdam
Simone Huis in ‘t Veld is CEO of Euronext Amsterdam and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V.
Simone Huis in ‘t Veld has been the CEO of Euronext Amsterdam since October 2019. She joined Euronext from her position as Managing Director and Country COO of Deutsche Bank in the Netherlands. Her previous professional experience includes over twenty years of senior management experience in the financial sector (Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO, Rabobank), of which over twelve years in Executive/Board roles in an international environment.
She holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam and participated in several (non)executive management courses (Nyenrode Business University and London Business School, among others).
Simone is a Board member at VNO-NCW (largest Dutch employers‘ organisation), Member AFM Advisory Panel and Board member at DSI (for integrity and expertise in the financial sector).
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- General Counsel
- Member of the Managing Board
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- Senior Relationship Manager
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- Member of the Managing Board
- Head of Compliance and Risk
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- Managing Director, EMEA Head of Custody, Securities Services, JP Morgan
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- CEO
- Member of the Managing Board
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Oslo Børs
Øivind Amundsen is CEO of Oslo Børs and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V.
Øivind Amundsen took up his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of Oslo Børs on 1 February 2020. He came to Oslo Børs in 2010 as Executive Vice President Primary Market and Legal Affairs. He has former positions as partner in the lawfirm Selmer working with Public Equity Capital Transactions and Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs in KLP. Prior to this he worked, among others, several years as lawyer in the legal department with Oslo Børs. Amundsen is Cand. jur from the University in Bergen, Authorized Financial Analyst from The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in addition to higher officer from the Norwegian Naval Academy.