SFOA Bürgenstock 2006 - Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke

Jörg Franke, born on January 7, 1941, a trained jurist, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG, a finance holding company based in Berlin and Frankfurt with three pillars: market making, banking and venture capital. From the beginning of 2001 to the beginning of 2006 he was the company’s Co-CEO.

Prior to that, between 1988 and the end of 2000 he set up and headed the Deutsche Terminbörse (German Futures and Options Exchange) and was the driving force behind the merger of the Swiss and German futures exchanges in 1998, which became Eurex, since 1999 the world’s biggest futures and options exchange. Simultaneously, he was Member of the Board of the Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt.

Previously, Franke ran the Berlin Stock Exchange and held senior positions in the Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf.

Franke is chairman and member respectively of several other supervisory boards and committees, one of which is RTS Realtime Systems AG, Frankfurt, one of the worldwide leading ISVs (Independent Software Vendor) of electronic trading systems for financial markets. He also plays an active role in education, holding a teaching position in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Karlsruhe (TU) since 1999, where he was made Honorary Professor in 2005.