The Board of Directors of SIX has appointed Bjørn Sibbern as CEO effective January 1, 2025. Bjørn Sibbern succeeds Jos Dijsselhof, who is leaving the company after seven years at SIX to take on a new professional challenge in the Middle East. Jos Dijsselhof successfully continued to develop SIX and expand it internationally.
Bjørn Sibbern will take over as CEO of SIX from January 1, 2025. As Global Head of Stock Exchanges and member of the Group Executive Board, he has been responsible for SIX’s international securities business since the beginning of 2024. Bjørn Sibbern has more than two decades of experience in capital markets for very prestigious institutions and, among other international positions, he has worked for Nasdaq, OMX Exchanges and as CEO of E*TRADE Bank Denmark. He is a Danish national, holds an Executive MBA, a diploma in business administration and a master’s degree in economics and business law from Copenhagen Business School.
Thomas Wellauer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIX, said: “I am delighted that we have been able to appoint Bjørn, a well-connected capital markets expert and team member, as CEO. Since joining SIX a year ago, we have come to know Bjørn as an assertive, highly motivated and proactive colleague. With his solid background, Bjørn brings the international experience and leadership quality necessary to continue and accelerate the path. growth that SIX has undertaken.
Since Jos Dijsselhof joined SIX as CEO in 2018, he has played a key role in the entity’s commercial development and expansion of its international presence. He successfully completed the strategic realignment of SIX with the sale of the cards business to Worldline and further diversified the entity’s business portfolio..
Under his leadership, SIX made key acquisitions – including the purchase of the Spanish Stock Exchange, BME – as well as other international investments, primarily in the financial information sector, which significantly boosted our growth.
Dijsselhof will stay at SIX until February to ensure an orderly transfer
Thomas Wellauer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIX, emphasizes: “On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Jos for his dedicated leadership.. Over the past seven years, he has strengthened SIX’s international presence, driven innovations such as SDX and played a decisive role in transforming and modernizing SIX’s corporate culture, positioning the entity for new success. We wish Jos all the best in his new career.”
