The Cash Market Division covers securities trading activities.
The Management Committee of the SIX Swiss Exchange is identical with the senior management body of the Cash
Markets Division of SIX Group. It comprises the divisional CEO as well as departmental heads.
The divisional CEO is also a member of the SIX Group Group Executive Board".
Christian Katz has been Chief Executive Officer of SIX Group's Cash Markets
division since May of 2009. The division encompasses SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed, a leading
supplier of raw financial data. Further down the hierarchical chain, SIX Swiss Exchange
operates Scoach, the highly successful joint venture with Deutsche Börse AG, which is
Europe's first exchange to specialize solely in structured financial products, as well
as Swiss Fund Data and STOXX, the European leader in compiling financial market indices.
From 2006 through early 2009, Christian Katz headed the representative office of Goldman
Sachs International in Switzerland, where he focused on the firm's institutional equity
and stock 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. Christian Katz completed his studies in business and finance at the
University of St. Gallen and went on to earn a doctorate in finance. Over the years, he
has been active in both writing and lecturing on international finance matters.
Werner Bürki has been a member of the Management Committee of the SIX Swiss Exchange
since July 2002 and, since October 2001, has held the position of CEO of SIX Exfeed Ltd,
a company he established as a European provider of raw financial data. He has also
been a member of the STOXX Supervisory Board since December 2002. He started his career
in 1992 as a sales manager with Dow Jones Markets Switzerland AG. By 2001, he had become
a member of that company's Executive Committee and Board of Directors, whereas in June
1998 he assumed the position of General Manager Switzerland for Bridge Information Systems.
During that phase, Werner Bürki introduced the Dow Jones platform to the Swiss market and
was responsible for the merger between Dow Jones Markets and Bridge Information Systems.
Werner Bürki graduated from business school in Zurich. Earlier in his career, he was a
specialist in the field of options and futures trading, and in 1987 completed additional
specialized studies at the New York Institute of Finance.
Chris Landis was elected to the SIX Swiss Exchange Management Committee
in 2003 and is Head of the Information Technology Division. He has been employed by
the SIX Swiss Exchange and its predecessor organizations since 1993. Chris Landis
bore operational responsibility for the EBS project infrastructure. Prior to becoming
Head of the Member Support Center in 1995, he was in charge of developing and conducting
educational courses for trader representatives and system administrators. In the
capacity of Senior Vice President, Chris Landis has been in charge of the Information
Technology Division since 1999, with a major focus on developmental and external
IT projects. After graduating with a Type B Matura in Zurich in 1978, Chris Landis
continued studying in the fields of human medicine, information technology and economics.
