Richard Carleton was appointed CEO of the Canadian Securities Exchange in July 2011. Since then, Richard and the CSE team have positioned the exchange to take a leading role in the provision of public capital to entrepreneurial companies, and in the process, set a series of records for new listings, capital raised by issuers and trading turnover. An advocate for the public markets, Richard has been recognized for his contributions by a number of industry associations, and is a regular commentator on capital formation and market structure issues in Canada and around the world.

In addition to his responsibilities with the CSE, Richard is a director of Safe Harbor Financial, a Nasdaq-listed financial services company, Blue Ocean ATS, a US-registered system offering trading in US NMS stocks between 8 pm and 4 am EST, and Tetra Trust Company, Canada’s first recognized custodian for digital assets. He is also a board member of the Private Capital Markets Association, and a past member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s “Market Structure Advisory Committee”.

A member of the Law Society of Ontario since 1987, Richard is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (B.A. ’81) and the University of Toronto (LL.B. ’85). He has also completed the executive development programme at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.