LAWRENCE LEIBOWITZ
Head of US Markets & Global Technology
Lawrence Leibowitz is Group Executive Vice President, Head of US Markets and Global Technology, NYSE Euronext. He is also a member of the NYSE Euronext Management Committee.
Mr. Leibowitz, 47, is responsible for business and product development for the U.S. cash markets. In addition, he will assume responsibility for NYSE Euronext’s ongoing equities trading platform integration initiative, the company’s global technology systems and development, and its U.S. options business.
He reports to Duncan Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of NYSE Euronext.
Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Leibowitz was most recently with UBS Americas Equities where he served as Chief Operating Officer. He joined UBS Americas Equities as a Managing Director in 2004 when the firm acquired Schwab Capital Markets. He was responsible for several areas including Market Structure, Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Regulatory Control, and the Broker Services Functions for the Equities Division. At Schwab, he was Co-Head of Schwab Capital Markets.
Before joining Schwab in October 2001, Mr. Leibowitz co-founded Bunker Capital, a quantitative hedge fund, in 1996. He also served as CEO of REDIBook ECN and as Managing Director and Head of Program and Quantitative Trading at Credit Suisse First Boston.
In addition to chairing the Nasdaq Quality of Market Committee and serving on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Market Structure Committee, Mr. Leibowitz has been a featured speaker at numerous industry forums related to market structure issues.
Mr. Leibowitz graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Economics.
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