Stéphane Boujnah

Stéphane Boujnah, born in Albertville, is a banker and has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Managing Board of Euronext since 2015.
== Early life ==
Stéphane Tamzarti Boujnah was born on 11 April 1964 in Albertville, France.{{Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory, Volume 1}} The son of a worker and a teacher, Boujnah grew up in Sfax, Tunisia, and then in Champigneulles in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Boujnah graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He holds a Master's degree and a DEA in Law from the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, an LLM in Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and an MBA from INSEAD.
== Career ==
From 1991 to 1997, Boujnah worked as a business lawyer at Freshfields and specialised in Mergers and acquisitions and international investment projects.
From 1997 to 1999, he acted as an advisor in the cabinet of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France), Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
From 2000 to 2002, Boujnah was Director of M&A at Crédit Suisse First Boston Technology Group in Palo Alto, California, and later in London.
In 2003, he created Km5 Capital, a Paris-based company to raise financing for growth projects in Tech companies.
From 2005 to 2010, Boujnah was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in Paris, where he was responsible for developing M&A business in France. He also managed business development for Deutsche Bank operations in North Africa, where he was the President of Deutsche Securities Algeria from 2007 to 2010.
From 2010 to 2015, he was CEO of Santander Global Banking & Markets operations, initially in France and Benelux and then for continental Europe. He led the development of the business's financing, market and banking operations.
Stéphane Boujnah has been CEO of the Euronext Group since 16 November 2015.. Since his arrival, he has seen the business's total revenue grow from €458 million in 2015 to €1.3 billion in 2020. He completed the acquisition of the Irish Stock Exchange in 2018, Oslo Børs in 2019, VP Securities Copenhagen in 2020 and Borsa Italiana in 2021. During the same period, the market capitalisation of Euronext increased from approximately €2 billion to €11 billion.
== Public engagement ==
SOS Racisme: in 1984, Boujnah was one of the six cofounders of SOS Racisme.
En Temps Réel: in 2000, Boujnah co-founded the progressive think tank En Temps Réel, where he published a piece about the Swedish growth model entitled L'inoxydable modèle suédois and where he presided on the supervisory board from 2011 to 2016.
Commission Attali: from 2007 to 2010, Boujnah was a member of the Commission for the Liberation of French Growth created by President Nicolas Sarkozy and chaired by Jacques Attali.
Prométhée Education: Boujnah is the Vice President of Prométhée Education, a program to enhance professional motivation and ambition among young people from underprivileged backgrounds.
Accentus: since 2011, Boujnah has chaired the managing board of the Accentus Choir and the Insula Orchestrahttps://www.insulaorchestra.fr/ conducted by Laurence Equilbey.
The Socialist Party (France)| Socialist Party : Boujnah was a member of the French Socialist Party until 2013. He participated actively in the work of European think tank, A Gauche en Europe, headed by Michel Rocard, as well as the Fondation Jean-Jaurès| Jean Jaurès Foundation.
Fnac: from June 2013 to October 2015, he was a member of the managing board of the retail distribution group, Fnac Group.
== Personal Life ==
Stéphane Boujnah is married to Hélène Roques. He is the father of four children.
Category:1964 births
Category:People from Albertville