George Möller Elected President Of The Federation Of European Securities Exchanges

George Möller, Chief Operating Officer of Euronext and former president of Amsterdam Exchanges, is elected as the new president of the Federation of Euroepean Securities Exchanges (FESE) for two years. This was announced today after the Extra-ordinary General Assembly of the FESE (formerly known as the Federation of European Stock Exchanges) in Vienna, Austria.

George Möller is succeeding Jean-Francois Théodore, president and Chief Operation Officer of Euronext, who served FESE as president for two years. Massimo Capuano, President and and CEO of Borsa Italiana, was elected Deputy President of the FESE.

George Möller (52) was born in Groningen and studied business economics at the State University of Groningen.

After working for Amro Bank (now ABN AMRO) and the Deli Company, George Möller moved to Pierson, Heldring & Pierson (now: Generale Bank) in 1987. As General Manager he was among other things, responsible for merging the London businesses of Pierson, Heldring & Pierson and Mees & Hope and ran an organisation with a versatile package of activities particularly in the field of the mediation and settlement of shares, futures and options and banking.

In 1992 George Möller was appointed a Board Member of LIFFE and chairman of the Equity Market Committee of the Stock Exhange, the Strategy Committee for Policy, monitoring options to purchase shares.

George Möller was also a member of the UK Steering Committee, the joint venture between the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times responsible for the control of the UK stock indices. In 1996 George Möller joined the EOE-Options Exchange as General Manager, becoming Chief Executive (President) of Amsterdam Exchanges (AEX) when the stock exchange merged with the options exchange on 1 January 1997.

As from 22 September 2000 George Möller is Chief Operating Officer of Euronext, which is the result of the merger between ParisBourse SA, Brussels Exchanges and Amsterdam Exchanges.