• Niguel Brooks appointed as HKEX Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure and Operations 
• Brings to HKEX considerable international and exchange experience

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce that Niguel Brooks has today (Monday) joined the company as Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure and Operations, reporting to HKEX Group Chief Technology Officer, Richard Leung.  As well as heading the IT infrastructure and operations team, Mr Brooks will be responsible for information security management and hosting services and he will act as Richard Leung’s deputy in Hong Kong.

The HKEX IT Infrastructure and Operations team is responsible for the operation of the company’s IT infrastructure and application systems, ensuring reliability and resilience across the business.  Mr Brooks joins HKEX from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), where he was most recently Strategic Advisor on Information Technology.  Prior to that, Mr Brooks was part of the senior IT management team at the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), where he was responsible for infrastructure and transformation and the launch of the company’s hosting services.

Additionally, Mr Alfred Lai, will retire from HKEX as Managing Director, Information Technology, after more than 14 years with the company, at the end of June.

"We are delighted to welcome Niguel to HKEX.  His twenty years of international experience and his background in IT infrastructure and operations will be invaluable to HKEX and I am very much looking forward to welcoming him to the team,” said Richard Leung.

“On behalf of the company, I would like to thank Alfred for his considerable contributions and long service to HKEX.  He has made significant contributions to the reliability to the IT operations at HKEX during his tenure.  We wish him a very happy retirement.”


NOTES TO EDITORS

Biographies of Mr Niguel Brooks

Mr Brooks has extensive experience across the exchange and market infrastructure IT landscape, having worked for both the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) in senior IT positions over a 20-year period.  His expertise covers IT enterprise architecture, technology operations, hosting, strategic design, and transformation.



About HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is one of the world’s major exchange groups, and operates a range of equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets.  HKEX is the world’s leading IPO market and as Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange and sole operator of its clearing houses, it is uniquely placed to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets.

HKEX is also the global leader in metals trading, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, The London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear Limited.  This commodity franchise was further enhanced with the launch of Qianhai Mercantile Exchange, in China, in 2018.

HKEX launched the pioneering Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme in 2014, further expanded with the launch of Shenzhen Connect in 2016, and the launch of Bond Connect in 2017.

www.hkexgroup.com