Collaborative Finance in a Fragmented World

Head Securities Services, SIX

Javier Hernani has been Head Securities Services at SIX since January 2021. In June 2020, he assumed the role of Head BME after the takeover of BME by SIX. The Spanish citizen holds degrees in economics and business management from Universidad Comercial de Deusto and in european studies from Brugges European School. Before joining BME in 2002, he held the position as Deputy General Manager of the Bilbao Stock Exchange. Previously Javier Hernani worked as European Financial Sector consultant at Coopers & Lybrand Brussels and as CFO at Norbolsa, a Spanish broker.

Other Activities and Mandates

• Member of the Board of Directors Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), Madrid
• Member of the Board of Directors Operador do Mercado Ibérico de Energia, Madrid
• Member of the Executive Board Federación Iberoamericana de Bolsas (FIAB), Buenos Aires

Head Financial Information, SIX

Marion Leslie is Head Financial Information at SIX and a member of the SIX Executive Board. She is also a member of the BME Board of Directors. 
The British-Australian dual citizen has a degree in the administration of companies specialised in French and German translation and interpreting from the University of Salford and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in French and German from the University of Cambridge.
Until her appointment in 2016 as Executive Director of Corporate Business at Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters), she has held various executive positions within Thomson Reuters. Thus, among other positions at Thomson Reuters, she has held various roles in the Reuters Data Operations segment from 1994 to 2000, has been responsible for EMEA Operations from 2000 to 2003, Executive Director at the Board of Reuters Indicates.
Additionally, she has been an external Director of UK Hydrografic, Ministry of Defence Trading Fund since 2015 and a Trustee at Prostate Cancer UK since 2016.

Head Domestic Custody & TR, SIX

Jesús Benito has an Economic Degree from Complutense University in Madrid. He passed the oppositions to join Banco de España in 1988. In 2000, he joined BME. Jesús is CEO of IBERCLEAR, the Spanish CSD, since 2006 and Chairman of REGIS-TR since April 2022. Jesús Benito is also member of the Management Committees of SIX Securities Services and BME.

Head Commercials Securities Services, SIX

Marcus Harréus leads the Commercials organisation within Securities Services. In this capacity, he leads all of the relationship management, product management and sales activities for the post-trade area.
Marcus Harréus also heads the legal entity SIX SIS AG which provides settlement and custody activities by being Switzerland’s regulated national Central Securities Depository (CSD) and by serving its regulated clients worldwide as a Global Custodian.
He joined SIX as Head Strategy of Securities Services in 2013, a position he held for four years. Prior to SIX, Marcus enjoyed a long and varied career in the financial sector. He spent twelve years in a range of key positions at Deutsche Börse AG, where he acquired ample management experience and an in-depth understanding of global markets. He has also spent extended periods of time working in Australia and London.
Marcus’ practical expertise is augmented by an MBA, which he earned from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Marcus is also a member of the board of directors of Regis-TR SA.

Head Banking Services and Member of the Executive Board at SIX

He previously had been in charge of the Banking Services business unit’s Products & Solutions department since September 2018. His professional background also includes career experience in the airline industry (at Deutsche Lufthansa in Frankfurt, Cologne, and Hamburg) and in the field of international development cooperation (at the German Development Cooperation Agency), with multiyear stints in Costa Rica and Ethiopia. In Switzerland he has held various management roles at UBS, PostFinance, the St. Gallen-based Bankenberatungszentrum, and the consultancy firm Boxcon. Dieter Goerdten served also as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Euro Clearing Bank in Frankfurt.
He earned a degree in economics from the University of Hamburg, holds a Master of Advanced Studies degree in corporate finance from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland, and has many years of international managerial experience in the Swiss financial sector.

Head SIX Digital Exchange

David Newns was made Head SIX Digital Exchange in October 2021 with a mandate to lead SDX in building the next generation fully regulated digital market infrastructure and establish SDX as a leader in global institutional Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency services.
David is an entrepreneur and financial services professional with over 20 years of experience in capital markets. Prior to SDX, he was Senior Managing director at State Street and Global Head of GlobalLink Execution Services. In this role he was responsible for the award winning Currenex and FX Connect independent multi-asset class trading platform businesses. Previously, David was Global Head of Currenex and SwapEx. Before that, he held the roles of Chief Operating Officer for State Street Global Exchange Trading & Clearing and State Street eExchange EMEA. In 2001 David joined Currenex as a founding member of Currenex’s London operation. Before joining Currenex, David held several positions in technical services at MicroStrategy, a leading global provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence.