Robert Scharfe was born on 26 November 1953 and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange[1] (Bourse de Luxembourg), a post he held from 18 April 2012 to 21 April 2021.[2]
He is chairman of the board[3] of Fundsquare, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and a member of the board[4] of FundsDLT.
In addition, he is a member of the board of directors[5] of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges and the chairman of the nomination committee[6] of the World Federation of Exchanges.
Career
editHe began his career in 1977 at Banque Générale du Luxembourg (now BGL BNP Paribas) and up to 2012 held a variety of positions in the bank. These included terms as the head of financial markets from 1985 to 1994, head of private banking from 1994 to 1998 and CEO of the global markets business line from 2004 to 2007. He finished his time at this bank as a member of the management board in charge of corporate and investment banking.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange from April 2001[7] and in 2004 was elected vice-chairman, a mandate he held until his appointment as CEO.
He was also chairman of the board[8] of Finesti, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, from April 2012 until its integration in July 2013 into Fundsquare.
Education and Personal
editRobert Scharfe holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Nancy, France. He is an alumnus of INSEAD, France and of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, USA. He is married and has three children.
Footnotes
edit- ^ "Luxembourg Stock Exchange press release". Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- ^ "Luxembourg Stock Exchange press release". Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ "Fundsquare "Company structure and history" page". Retrieved 2014-04-27.
- ^ "FundsDLT "Who we are" page". Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "FESE "FESE Board Members" page". Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "WFE "WFE Committees" page". Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "PaperJam magazine article". Retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ^ "Finesti press release" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-02.[permanent dead link]