SFOA Bürgenstock 2008

Bürgenstock in Interlaken 2008, September 3 to 6, 2008 > Speakers

Thomas Book

Thomas Book is heading the Clearing, CCP & Strategy department of Eurex and was appointed Member of the Executive Boards of Eurex Frankfurt AG, Eurex Zürich AG and Eurex Clearing AG in December 2006. He has held a number of different leadership and project management positions at Deutsche Börse and Eurex since joining Deutsche Börse in October 1995. Previous to his appointment he was in charge of market development for cash and derivatives markets, as well as for international strategic projects, in his 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.

From 2000 until 2004, Thomas worked 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.

Thomas received a diploma in Business Administration at the University of Münster in 1995. He completed a Ph. D. thesis on "Electronic stock exchange trading and global markets" at the University of Giessen in 2000.