SIX Telekurs, the financial information division of Switzerland’s SIX Group, has named Thomas Gross, the current head of Securities Operations at Credit Suisse, chief executive officer, effective April 1 2009. Gross, who will also become a member of the SIX Group executive board, will succeed Jörg Buser, who has been heading SIX Telekurs on a temporary basis.
Before taking on his current role at Credit Suisse, Gross headed the bank’s in-house business technology advisory unit. Before that, he managed various projects for McKinsey & Co. in Switzerland and Brazil, in the financial services and the logistics sector.
