Source: SIX Group
Thomas Gross, the current head of Securities Operations at Credit Suisse, will take over as head of the Financial Information Division of the SIX Group from 1 April 2009. He will become Chief Executive Officer of the financial information provider SIX Telekurs and a member of the SIX Group Executive Board. Thomas Gross will succeed Jörg Buser, who has been heading the Financial Information Division on a temporary basis.
Before taking on his current function at Credit Suisse, Thomas Gross headed the in-house Business Technology advisory unit at the same bank. From 1995 to 2001 he managed various projects for McKinsey & Company in Switzerland and Brazil in the financial services and the logistics sector. He started his career at various internationally active industrial firms both in Switzerland and abroad.
Thomas Gross graduated with a degree in law from the University of Neuchâtel and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.