Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes is Senior Vice President, Managing Director for Options in Europe with responsibility for focusing the teams efforts on driving new business growth, delivering service excellence and the development of strong regional relationships to further enhance Options position as the premier provider of infrastructure services (IaaS) to the Global Financial Services sector.

Richard is a former senior executive of NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, where most recently he was responsible for Global Business Development. In addition to his most recent role at NYSE Technologies, Richard led both the European and global sales teams, and held the position of General Manager for Europe. Prior to NYSE Technologies, he oversaw international sales and client operations for NYFIX. NYSE Euronext acquired NYFIX in late 2009. Previous to NYFIX, Richard spent 13 years at Omgeo, the joint venture between Thomson Reuters and the DTCC where as Managing Director he oversaw the firm’s European business from 2000 to 2005. He is married with two young children, Poppy and Charlie and has a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Manchester Metropolitan University.