Shannon Anastasia Johnston joins Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse
At today’s Annual General Meeting, the shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG elected Shannon Anastasia Johnston as a shareholder representative to the Supervisory Board. She succeeds Karl-Heinz Flöther, who has resigned from his mandate and left the board after ten years.
Ms Johnston has assumed the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board’s Technology Committee. She has been working in the technology and financial technology industry for more than 18 years. In her current position as Chief Technology Officer of Global Payments Inc., she is responsible, among others, for the areas of data, analysis and corporate architecture worldwide.
Prior to Global Payments, Ms Johnston served as Chief Information Officer of Mspark, Inc. Before that, she was Chief Operating Officer at Epicor Software Corporation (former ShopVisible, LLC).
Ms Johnston is Bachelor of General Studies, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, USA.