Primary Job Title EVP, Global President Primary Organization Cboe Global Markets
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Mr. Howson has more than 25 years of experience in European and North American financial markets. He joined Cboe in 2017 as part of the Bats acquisition, becoming President, Europe in January 2020 and taking additional responsibility for Asia Pacific in June 2021, following Cboe's acquisition of Chi-X Asia Pacific. He has been instrumental in
the company's recent key organic and inorganic growth initiatives. He has spearheaded the growth of Cboe's European business, including the development and execution of some of its most innovative product offerings, including Cboe Europe Periodic Auctions, Cboe BIDS Europe, and BXTR, which has become the largest trade reporting facility in Europe. He oversaw Cboe's acquisition of EuroCCP, the pan-European clearing house, in July 2020 and the subsequent launch of CEDX, Cboe's first pan-European derivatives marketplace. Having helped lead Cboe's acquisition of Chi-X Asia Pacific - which operates alternative equity trading platforms in Australia and Japan – he took on oversight of these businesses and has laid the foundations for an expansion of their products and services.
Prior to joining Bats in 2013, Howson was a founding employee and Chief Technology Officer of Equiduct, a pan-European Regulated Market. He spent the early part of his career consulting on the technology strategy and implementation for various exchanges in the U.S. and Europe, including Nasdaq, Borsa Italiana and LIFFE.
