The General Shareholders’ Meetings of the Eurex companies elected three new members to the Supervisory Boards of Eurex Zürich AG, Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Clearing AG on Thursday: Christian Gell (Managing Director, Credit Suisse), Andreas Häberli (Head of Equities Switzerland, UBS Investment Bank) and Nicholas Teller (Member of the Board of the Executive Board, Commerzbank). Gell, Häberli and Teller have been appointed until the end of the 2008 General Shareholders’ Meeting.
The Board of Directors of Eurex Zürich AG and the Supervisory Board of Eurex Frankfurt AG appointed Thomas Book to the Executive Boards of Eurex Zürich AG and Eurex Frankfurt AG for a period of three years and with immediate effect. Book will head up Eurex’s Clearing division.
Book (35) has held a number of different leadership and project management positions at Deutsche Börse and Eurex since October 1995. He was in charge of market development on the cash and derivatives markets, as well as for international strategic projects, in his current position as Head of Trading and Clearing Market Development and as Head of Market Development Derivatives Markets, a post which he held from October 2004 until November 2005. Previously, he had spent around four years as Senior Project Manager for Strategic Planning. Book has been involved in a number of major projects at Eurex: the integration of DTB and SOFFEX to form Eurex, the alliance with CBOT, the establishment of the Eurex’s U.S. exchange Eurex US and the Global Clearing Link, as well as the partnership with Man Group, which acquired a majority interest in Eurex US in October 2006. Book wrote his doctorate on “Electronic stock exchange trading and global markets”.
