Gianluca Garbi
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Gianluca Garbi is the Chairman of the Management Board of MTS S.p.A. and Chief Executive Officer of EuroMTS and BondVision. Since 1998, he has been responsible for the operations of the MTS Group of companies in Europe, collectively known as the “European Bond Exchange” and of BondVision, the Internet-based trading platform for institutional investors. Under Mr. Garbi’s direction, the MTS Group has become the leading electronic fixed income market with the most extensive network in Europe and with daily average volumes at up to €90 billion for MTS and €5 billion for BondVision. Mr. Garbi leads the MTS Group of companies in its continuous expansion. In 2001, MTS acquired BondClick, an Internet-based auction-trading platform for fixed-income securities. MTS also branched out into the corporate bond market with CoredealMTS, the screen-based electronic exchange for debt-related securities, which it later consolidated with EuroMTS. In 2003, MTS launched the EuroMTS Indices, the first independent and transparent pan-European bond indices, as well as MTS markets beyond the eurozone, namely MTS Denmark and MTS Poland. In successive years, MTS launched NewEuroMTS and EuroGlobalMTS, the markets for the euro-denominated benchmark government bonds of new EU member States and non-EU States, respectively. MTS is equally set for launch in Israel in 2006 and has formalised a commitment with the China Foreign Exchange Trading System to cooperate towards the creation of a transparent, liquid and efficient domestic fixed-income market in the People’s Republic of China. In addition, Mr. Garbi has been instrumental in establishing the MTS Scientific Committee, which aims to foster research in the European bond markets and to link MTS with the academic community. Prior to this position, Mr. Garbi was an appointed member of the Council of Economic Advisers by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the former President of the Republic of Italy and prior to then the Minister of the Italian Treasury. In this capacity, he was involved in forging the direction of macro-economic and issuance policies of the Italian Treasury from 1997 to 1998. He has also held positions at Banque Paribas, in charge of Agency services and American Depository Receipt contracts from 1995 to 1997 and with JP Morgan as Head of Tax Planning, from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Garbi is an appointed member of the European Securities Experts Markets Group formed by the European Commission and a member of the Scientific and Pedagogic Committee of the Master of Finance in Toulouse. He has also held lectures at the John Hopkins University, the London Business School, SAID University, Oxford, Università di Tor Vergata and Università Cattolica di Sacro Cuore, Milan.
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