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.

Christoph Hansmeyer

Member

Christoph Hansmeyer

Member

Christoph Hansmeyer has served as a member of our Board since January 2020. He has served as the Managing Director of the Pre- and Post-Trading Division of Deutsche Börse AG since March 2022, and previously served as the Head of Group Strategy and M&A, as well as Chief of Staff from April 2018 to March 2022. He was previously with Allianz SE, based in Munich, Germany from 2012 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 from 1999 to 2012, working in the Investment Banking Division of the Financial Institutions Group with responsibility 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.

Jörg Pietzner

Member

Jörg Pietzner

Member

Jörg Pietzner is Head of Group Strategy / M&A / Chief of Staff at Deutsche Börse AG since March 2022. He was previously with UniCredit SpA, based in Milan, Italy, since 2017, where he was the Head of Group Investor Relations. Before that, he spent eight years at UniCredit Bank AG (HVB), in Munich, Germany working in a number of senior positions, including Head of Strategy and Head of Credit Risk Management. He started his career in the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs where he spent eight years in Frankfurt and London, focusing on mergers & acquisitions and capital markets, respectively. He holds dual degrees in physics and mathematics from the Free University of Berlin.

Caroline Woodworth

Observer

Caroline Woodworth

Observer

Caroline Woodworth is a Principal at General Atlantic and focuses on investments in the firm’s Financial Services sector. Before joining General Atlantic in 2015, Caroline was a Senior Associate at J.C. Flowers & Co. in London where she focused on investments in the financial services sector. Prior to that, Caroline was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Institutions group at Citigroup in New York.

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