Mr. Modica is Chief Financial Officer of Euronext. He joined Euronext in 2016. His responsibilities include also Euronext’s financial and corporate facilities and services. Mr. Modica joined from BNP Paribas (Paris and Milan), where he was a senior Corporate Finance banker in Financial Institutions for nine (9) years, holding the responsibility for the Stock Exchange sector globally and for the overall FIG markets in Italy and Spain. In over fifteen (15) years of international investment banking experience, Mr Modica covered both M&A and ECM, as well as the structuring of financing solutions (equity and debt). 

Since 2011, as advisor to NYSE Euronext and then Euronext, Mr. Modica has supported the Euronext group very closely throughout its key milestone transactions, including the attempted combination with Deutsche Börse, the carve-out of Euronext and its subsequent IPO. Mr Modica started his career at the venture capitalist firm MyQube in Geneva and then moved to investment banking at HSBC in Milan and MCC/Capitalia in Rome.

He is also the Chair of Oslo Børs, the Vice-Chair of Cassa di Compensazione e Garanzia, and a Director of Borsa Italiana, Euronext Holding Italia, Monte Titoli, MTS, and Euronext FX Inc.. 

Mr. Modica was born in 1973. He graduated cum-laude from Bocconi University and holds a Master in Finance from SDA Bocconi.