HELLENIC EXCHANGES - ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE S.A.

Election of new Chief Executive Officer to the Board of Directors

Hellenic Exchanges – Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) announces to investors that the Board of Directors, at its meeting today, elected as a new executive member and appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company Mr. Ioannis (Yianos) Kontopoulos, replacing Mr. Socrates Lazaridis.

At the same meeting the Board of Directors of the Company was again constituted as a corporate body as follows:

  1. George Handjinicolaou                  Chairman, non-executive member
  2. Alexios Pilavios                                  Vice Chairman, non-executive member
  3. Yianos Kontopoulos                        Chief Executive Officer, executive member
  4. Konstantinos Vassiliou                   Non-executive member
  5. Dimitrios Dosis                                  Independent non-executive member
  6. Giorgos Doukidis                               Independent non-executive member
  7. Ioannis Emiris                                     Non-executive member
  8. Polyxeni Kazoli                                   Independent non-executive member
  9. Theano Karpodini                             Independent non-executive member
  10. Nicholaos Krenteras                        Independent non-executive member
  11. Ioannis Kyriakopoulos                    Non-executive member
  12. Spyridoula Papagiannidou            Independent non-executive member
  13. Pantelis Tzortzakis                            Independent non-executive member

In corresponding decisions of the respective Boards of Directors, Mr. Yianos Kontoppoulos was also elected as an executive member and appointed as Chief Executive Officer in the subsidiary companies of the Group “Athens Exchange Clearing House” (ATHEXClear) and “Hellenic Central Securities Depository” (ATHEXCSD), replacing Mr. Socrates Lazaridis.