Xavier Rolet
| Xavier R. Rolet (KBE) | |
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Rolet in 2015
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| Born |
12 November 1959 Aix-les-Bains, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) IHEDN KEDGE Business School |
Xavier R. Rolet KBE (born 12 November 1959) is the CEO of the .
Rolet was born in Aix-les-Bains, France. He is the eldest of three children born to military parents. His early life was spent in Algeria and France. After graduating from the Marseille Business School with an MSc in Management Science and Finance in 1981, he served as a second lieutenant and Instructor at the French Air Force Academy, earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1984 and a post-graduate degree from Paris-based IHEDN (Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence) in April 2008.
From 1984-1994, Rolet worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and London. At Goldman, he started on the international arbitrage desk in New York. Then he joined Credit Suisse First Boston as Global Head of European Equities in 1994, working there until 1996. After that, Rolet worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson from 1997-2000 as Global Head of Risk and Trading. He then worked at Lehman Brothers from 2000–2008, in New York, as co-head of global equity trading, in London, as head of European and Asian equities, and in Paris, as CEO of Banque Lehman Brothers. He joined the Board of the in March 2009, and became CEO in May . Under his leadership, the acquired MillenniumIT (2009), Turquoise Holdings Ltd (2010), FTSE Group (2011), TRS (2011), GATElab Srl (2012), EuroTLX Srl (2013), LCH.Clearnet (2013), Bonds.com (2014), Exactpro (2015), XTF (2015) and the Frank Russell Company (2014) from Northwestern Mutual, the Asset management arm of which was sold in October 2015 to TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners. In October 2015, LSE Group launched Curve Global, a new Futures Exchange co-owned with Barclays Bank, Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, Sachs, Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. In March 2016, the company announced it had reached an agreement with Deutsche Boerse AG to merge. The companies will be brought under a new holding company, UK TopCo, and will retain dual headquarters in London and Frankfurt. ON 21 November, 2016, announced the acquisition of Mergent, Inc., a 100-year old global provider of financial data and analysis based in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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