Shareholder Committee

Meet the Qontigo Shareholder Committee – our governance body with representatives from Deutsche Börse AG, General Atlantic, and Qontigo.

Stephan Leithner

Chairman

Stephan Leithner

Chairman

Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG, responsible for Pre- & Post- Trading and Chairman of Clearstream

Stephan Leithner was appointed as Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse Group at the beginning of July 2018. He is responsible for the Group’s post-trading business (Clearstream), and pre-trading (ISS, Qontigo) businesses.

Stephan Leithner served as a Partner of the leading alternative investments firm EQT since 2016. Previously, he acted as a Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG from 2012 until 2015, where he had held a number of leadership positions in Global Banking since 2000. Further work stations include McKinsey & Company as well as the Swiss Institute for Banking and Finance in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

He has a PhD in Finance and a Master in Business Administration from University of St. Gallen.

Sebastian Ceria

Chief Executive Officer

Sebastian Ceria

Chief Executive Officer

Sebastian Ceria is Chief Executive Officer of Qontigo. He previously served as the CEO of Axioma, which he founded and led since 1998. Before that, Sebastian was an Associate Professor of Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School. He has worked extensively in robust optimization and its application to portfolio management, authoring many articles in industry and academic publications. He is a recipient of the Career Award for Operations Research from the National Science Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Sebastian holds a PhD in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, and a degree in Applied Math from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Christoph Böhm

Member

Christoph Böhm

Member

Christoph Böhm was appointed to the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG in November 2018. In his role as Chief Information Officer (CIO), he focuses on the introduction of new technologies. He is also responsible for operations at Deutsche Börse Group, as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Earlier, Christoph served as a Senior Vice President for Global Cloud Services at SAP AG. Before that, he led Information Technology in Central Europe as a CIO at Vodafone from 2010 to 2015. Christoph is member of the supervisory boards at Clearstream Beteiligungs AG and Clearstream Holding AG (group mandates).

Gabriel Caillaux

Member

Gabriel Caillaux

Member

Gabriel Caillaux is a Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic’s business in EMEA. He is also a member of the firm’s Management and Investment Committees. Since joining the firm in 2004, Gabriel has helped expand the firm’s investment focus across the greater European region to include Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He focuses on investments in the Financial Services and Technology sectors. Before joining General Atlantic, Gabriel worked in the telecoms, media & technology division at Merrill Lynch in London and New York.

Stephanie Eckermann

Member

Stephanie Eckermann

Member

Dr. Stephanie Eckermann is Chief of Staff Pre- & Post-Trading at Deutsche Börse Group as well as Member of the Clearstream Holding AG Executive Board. Prior to that, she was Partner at McKinsey & Company. Stephanie earned her PhD at Goethe-University, her Diplom-Kauffrau at European Business School as well as her MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

William Guttman

Member

William Guttman

Member

Bill Guttman was Chairman of Axioma from 2001 until its combination into Qontigo, and has held leadership roles in dozens of other venture and PE-backed companies. As a general partner of three early-stage venture capital firms, Bill has also been the lead investor in an array of notable technology startups. Before entering the private sector, he worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations at Balliol College, Oxford University.

Christoph Hansmeyer

Member

Christoph Hansmeyer

Member

Christoph Hansmeyer is Head of Group Strategy and M&A, as well as Chief of Staff at Deutsche Börse AG. He was previously with Allianz SE, based in Munich, Germany until 2018, where he held positions in Group Merger & Acquisitions and in the company’s Group Strategy & Portfolio Management team. Before that, he spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs, working in the Investment Banking Division of the Financial Institutions Group with responsibilities for Frankfurt, New York and London. He earned his master’s degree in Business Administration at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany in 1999.

Aaron Goldman

Observer

Aaron Goldman

Observer

Aaron Goldman is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Financial Services at General Atlantic. Aaron leads or is closely involved with GA’s investments in Ant Financial, Adyen, BillDesk, Clip, Greensill and sits on the Board of Directors of Network International, plc. Aaron was also involved in GA investments in Affinion, Amherst Pierpont, First Republic Bank, Klarna, Markit, Mu Sigma, Net1, Sura Asset Management and Tory Burch. Aaron graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

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