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Christian Kronseder Joins STOXX Limited As COO

Date 29/04/2015

STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that Christian Kronseder will join the company as chief operating officer (COO), as of May 1st, 2015.

"Christian has extensive experience when it comes to platforms and optimized operations in index processing environments, which will be of great value to STOXX", said Holger Wohlenberg, chairman of the STOXX supervisory board. "We are very excited to have him join the company. I am confident that he will be an asset to our global team and contribute to STOXX´s success."

In his new position as COO, Mr. Kronseder will be responsible for STOXX’s index production as well as index operations; focusing on infrastructure, service, quality and innovation. He is part of the management board of STOXX, which also includes Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, and Patrick Valovic, chief financial officer. Mr. Kronseder will be based in Zurich.

Mr. Kronseder joins from RBS, where he most recently was head of market, Switzerland, and also a member of RBS Switzerland’s management board. Throughout his career in banking, Mr. Kronseder has been building innovative trading platforms for structured products and high quality operational processes for time critical services at institutions like RBS, Credit Suisse and UBS.