Management

Werner Bürki has been a member of the Management Committee of the SWX Swiss Exchange since July 2002 and, since October 2001, has held the position of CEO of EXFEED Ltd., a company he established as a European provider of raw financial data. He has also been a member of the STOXX Supervisory Board since December 2002. He started his career in 1992 as a sales manager with Dow Jones Markets Switzerland AG. By 2001, he had become a member of that company's Executive Committee and Board of Directors, whereas in June 1998 he assumed the position of General Manager Switzerland for Bridge Information Systems. During that phase, Werner Bürki introduced the Dow Jones platform to the Swiss market and was responsible for the merger between Dow Jones Markets and Bridge Information Systems. Werner Bürki graduated from business school in Zurich. Earlier in his career, he was a specialist in the field of options and futures trading, and in 1987 completed additional specialized studies at the New York Institute of Finance.

Lee Hodgkinson was appointed CEO of SWX Europe (former virt-x) in December 2006. Lee also heads the Client and Product Group of the SWX Swiss Exchange and SWX Europe. Before this Lee was a member of the SWX Swiss Exchange Management Committee for three years, holding responsibility for the Market Operations division, where he led the development of the SWX's high-capacity transaction platform. Lee joined virt-x in 2001 as Head of Operations before becoming Director of Business Development. He began his career in the Markets Division of the London Stock Exchange, where he worked for nine years. In autumn 2006, he spent 7 weeks at Harvard Business School participating in the General Management Programme.

Chris Landis was elected to the SWX Swiss Exchange Management Committee in 2003 and is Head of the Information Technology Division. He has been employed by the SWX Swiss Exchange and its predecessor organizations since 1993. Chris Landis bore operational responsibility for the EBS project infrastructure. Prior to becoming Head of the Member Support Center in 1995, he was in charge of developing and conducting educational courses for trader representatives and system administrators. In the capacity of Senior Vice President, Chris Landis has been in charge of the Information Technology Division since 1999, with a major focus on developmental and external IT projects. After graduating with a Type B Matura in Zurich in 1978, Chris Landis continued studying in the fields of human medicine, information technology and economics.

Rodolfo Straub has been a Member of the Management Committee of the SWX Swiss Exchange and Head of the Admission Division since October 2007. Previously, as Head of Capital Markets at the Zurich Cantonalbank since 1999, he was responsible for acquiring and advising capital-market customers and for carrying out transaction mandates. He was also Vice President of the Issuance Committee of the Swiss Cantonal Banks and, from 2003, Deputy Director of the Pfandbriefzentrale der schweizerischen Kantonalbanken. From 1982 through 1999, Rodolfo Straub was employed at UBS in the areas of capital-market consulting, key account management and credit product management for Swiss multinational clients. Both at UBS and at the Zurich Cantonalbank, Rodolfo Straub gained deep insight into the needs of Swiss and foreign issuers. In addition, from 1998 through 2006, he developed a firm understanding of political processes as mayor of Oberrieden. Rodolfo Straub completed law school at the University of Zurich in 1980.