Рудольф Ферша

Рудольф Ферша (родился 23 июня 1961 года в Вене ) - австрийский банкир и руководитель бизнеса, который ранее был членом исполнительного совета Goldman Sachs Bank во Франкфурте и Deutsche Börse AG , одной из 30 лучших компаний Германии. Он также служил генеральным директором Eurex и в качестве председателя Франкфуртской фондовой биржи . Ферша имеет юридическое образование в Университете Вены .

Карьера

Ранняя карьера

Первоначально адвокат по банковским и корпоративным финансам в Вене. Он стал управляющим директором EFB, Эрсте Финанц-Бератунг, дочерней компании Erste Bank , в 1988 году, консультируя по международному финансированию проектов и корпоративным финансам. С 1990 по 1997 год Ferscha управлял лондонским офисом Erste Bank, включая дочернюю компанию First Austrian International, FSA, регулируемое ценными бумагами. Ферша стал ответственным за управление казначейством и активами/ответственностью в общенациональной казначействе и активах/ответственности в 1994 году.

Goldman Sachs

В 1997 году Ферша присоединилась к LLP Goldman Sachs Group, первоначально в Лондоне, а в 1998 году присоединился к совету по управлению Goldman Sachs OHG Bank во Франкфурте, в качестве финансового директора и главного операционного директора . Он также стал директором со стороны их деривативов Франкфурта и требует продаж и торговли.

Eurex/Deutsche Börse AG

Ferscha joined Deutsche Börse AG as an executive board member from Goldman Sachs, their investment bankers, shortly before the company's IPO. From 2000 to 2005 he was CEO of Eurex, then the world's largest Futures Exchange, co-owned 50/50 (profit distribution: 80/20) by Deutsche Börse AG and SWX Swiss Exchange respectively, and CEO of Eurex Clearing AG as well as CEO of the Swiss derivatives exchange Eurex Zürich. From 2003 he ran the Xetra division of Deutsche Börse AG and served as Chairman of the Management Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Eurex and Xetra divisions accounted for more than half of Deutsche Börse AG's revenues.

Ferscha focused on profitability, global distribution, and on organic growth. The extension to foreign markets yielded market share gains in international index contracts like the EuroStoxx 50, as well as in Dutch, French and Italian equity options. In 2002 Eurex became the highest volume equity options exchange. The share of Eurex products sold to US customers grew from 5% in 2000 to 25% in 2005, as well as a profit growth from EUR 38m in 1999 to 175m in 2005. Ferscha propagated equal and open access to financial markets through a global liquidity network. He also proposed comprehensive regulation to capture systemic risk, as well as a balanced approach towards hedge fund regulation and a more inclusive approach to the over-the-counter markets.

Eurex developed its own over-the-counter electronic trading platforms; Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo, and included 17 US brokers, clearers and banks in the shareholder base of EurexUS. The Futures Industry Association, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and German Finance Minister Hans Eichel supported its application to become a US-regulated exchange. In negotiating a 15% participation in The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation, Ferscha obtained Eurex's access to clearing directly in the US and the market-user shareholders of that company guaranteed EurexUS's turnover for the first three years. The shareholders of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation voted for the Eurex deal and against an unsolicited take-over offer from the Chicago Board of Trade. Ferscha hired Goldman Sachs futures head Michael McErlean and the head of Chicago Mercantile Exchange's product development division Satish Nandapurkar to lead the Eurex US, 70% of which was sold to Man Group for $23.2 million 2 years later.

Ferscha reformed the allocation of specialist mandates on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to individual brokers according to performance criteria and opened the specialist roles to firms headquartered outside Germany. When mandating the redesign of the interior of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange building in 2005 he preserved the traditional trading floor of the exchange and its trademark magnetic blackboard. He introduced the new market segment Entry Standard in to cater for smaller and less mature businesses, following the earlier closure of the "Neue Markt". The Entry Standard attracted 71 listings in its first year, becoming the largest alternative investment market in continental Europe.

Ferscha was reported to be a potential candidate to assume the Deutsche Borse AG CEO role after the company's CEO Werner Seifert and Chairman Rolf Breuer left in 2005, pressured by funds including TCI and Atticus Ferscha lost out on this role to Reto Francioni, then chairman of SWX Swiss exchange, Deutsche Borse's junior partner in Eurex. The hedge funds proposed Hypo Real Estate's Kurt Viermetz as Chairman, who hired, Francioni as CEO in November 2005.

In December 2005 Ferscha resigned from the Deutsche Borse Group, followed by several other senior management departures He was succeeded by Frank Gerstenschlager, who was given the responsibility for the Xetra-division (equities, funds and warrants), and also by Andreas Preuss who was given responsibility for the Eurex division (derivatives and clearing).

Gledhow Capital, Moody's, Flow Traders

In 2006 he became a Partner at Gledhow Capital Partners, and has been an independent board director at rating agency Moody's Investors Service Limited, Moody's Investors Service EMEA Limited, Moody's France SAS and Moody's Deutschland since 2013 as well as a member of the supervisory board of DEAG Classics AG. Since 2015 he has been a member of the supervisory board of Flow Traders, chairing the remuneration and appointment committee .

He served as an independent supervisory board member of 360 Treasury Systems AG until the company was sold to Deutsche Börse AG in 2016.

Other interests

In May 2010 he was appointed to the Professional Oversight Board of the Financial Reporting Council, the independent UK regulator for corporate governance and corporate reporting.