Lawrence Leibowitz
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| Lawrence Leibowitz | |
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| Occupation | Group Executive VP |
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| Employer | NYSE Euronext |
| Location | New York and Paris |
| Website | www.nyse.com |
Lawrence Leibowitz is chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext. He was appointed to that post on March 3, 2010.[1][2] Leibowitz is also a member of the NYSE Euronext management committee.[3]
Leibowitz is responsible for business and product development for the U.S. cash markets. He also assumes 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, the chief executive officer and a director of NYSE Euronext.
Background
He was previously group executive vice president and head of U.S. markets and global technology for NYSE Euronext.
Before joining NYSE Euronext, Leibowitz was chief operating officer with UBS Americas Equities. 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 of 2001, Leibowitz co-founded Bunker Capital, a quantitative hedge fund in 2006. 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, Leibowitz has been a speaker at numerous industry forums related to market structure.[4]
Education
Leibowitz graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Economics.
References
- ↑ NYSE CEO to focus on derivatives business. Reuters.
- ↑ Panelists' Biographies, Roundtable to Examine Short Sale Price Test and Circuit Breaker Restrictions. U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.
- ↑ Panelists' Biographies Roundtable to Examine Short Sale Price Test and Circuit Breaker Restrictions. SEC.
- ↑ Speaker bio, Lawrence Leibowitz. FinTech 2008 Senior Executive Forum.
