Laura Morrison

Laura Morrison Location New York City LinkedIn Profile Laura Morrison is a New York-based executive known for her expertise in financial markets, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder engagement within the asset management and global stock exchange sectors. She presently serves as a board member and previously served as the chief revenue officer at Direxion. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Financial Industry and Real Estate (FIRE) Industry Group for the WomenExecs on Boards. Morrison is also a board member of Women in ETFs. She is notably recognized for her role in building and expanding global exchange traded funds (ETF) listings businesses at prominent stock exchanges, including NYSE Euronext and Cboe. At Cboe Global Markets, she served as senior vice president, global head of listings. Bats, her former company, was acquired by CBOE Holdings on February 28, 2017 and became Cboe Global Markets. Background Morrison was senior vice president, global head of exchange-traded products at BATS Global Markets. She was appointed to that position in April, 2015, after having spent 20 years as an executive at the New York Stock Exchange. Morrison worked for 20 years at the New York Stock Exchange, most recently as senior vice president, global index and exchange-traded products, leading the team which managed ETF listings and trading as well as the NYSE index business. She began her career at Barnett Bank in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and also spent two years as a specialist on the NYSE floor at CMJ Partners L.P. Education She is a graduate of Western Michigan University. References

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