Mr Christian Katz | CEO
SIX Swiss Exchange

Christian Katz is the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Group's Cash Markets Division. The Division encompasses SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed, a leading supplier of raw financial data. SIX Swiss Exchange also operates several joint ventures including Scoach, which is Europe's first exchange to specialize solely in structured financial products, Swiss Fund Data and STOXX, a European leader in financial market indices. Before joining SIX Group in early 2009, Christian Katz headed the representative office of Goldman Sachs International in Switzerland, where he focused on the firm's institutional equity and derivatives business. Before that, he spent eight years with JP Morgan Chase in London, where he was initially responsible for institutional equity sales to Swiss clients and later the Head of Research Marketing for Europe. He was also actively involved in international banking as a result of his previous positions at London Forfaiting Company and SBC Warburg in Zurich, London and Hong Kong. Christian Katz holds a Masters in Business and Finance and a PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.