Global Equity Markets Seminar – GEMS
GEMS Seminar Guest Speaker
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Reto Francioni (born in 1955) is CEO of Deutsche Börse AG.
From April 2002 to October 2005, Reto Francioni was chairman and president of the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich. Prior to assuming this post, he was co-CEO of Consors Discount-Broker AG, Nuremberg. Earlier in his career, he was appointed in 1993 to the board of Deutsche Börse AG, where he was responsible for its entire cash market division and, in 1999, became deputy CEO. He held different management positions in the securities exchange and banking sectors of Switzerland and the USA, as
well as in the directorate of the corporate finance division of Hofmann LaRoche.
Reto Francioni studied law in Zurich, where he also earned his Ph.D. in law. He is a professor for applied capital markets theory at the University of Basel, and was an adjunct professor of economics and finance at the Zicklin School of Business, New York. His publications include Equity Markets in Action and The Equity Trader Course.
