ATHEX : New Chairman of the Board of Directors

Hellenic Exchanges – Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) announces that, following fifteen years as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Iakovos Georganas resigned from the Board of Directors and the Group.

The Board of Directors at its meeting today elected Mr. George Hadjinicolaou as new nonexecutive member to fill the vacated seat. Mr. Hadjinicolaou is a banker and a non-executive Chairman of the Bank of Piraeus.

The Board of Directors was then formed as a Body, as follows:

1. George Hadjinicolaou Chairman, non-executive member

2. Socrates Lazaridis Vice Chairman & CEO, executive member

3. Alexandros Antonopoulos Independent non-executive member

4. Konstantinos Vassiliou Non-executive member

5. Ioannis Emiris Non-executive member

6. Dimitrios Karaiskakis Executive member

7. Sofia Kounenaki-Efraimoglou Independent non-executive member

8. Ioannis Kyriakopoulos Non-executive member

9. Adamantini Lazari Independent non-executive member

10. Nikolaos Milonas Independent non-executive member

11. Alexios Pilavios Non-executive member

12. Dionysios Christopoulos Independent non-executive member

13. Nikolaos Chryssochoidis Non-executive member

In addition, following the resignation of Mr. Iakovos Georganas from the Board of Directors of the subsidiary Hellenic Central Securities Depository, the Board of Directors elected Mr. George Hadjinicolaou as new non-executive Chairman and was formed as a Body as follows:

1. George Hadjinicolaou Chairman, non-executive member

2. Socrates Lazaridis Vice Chairman & CEO, executive member

3. Nikolaos Pimplis Executive member

4. Nikolaos Porfyris Executive member

5. Dionysios Christopoulos Non-executive member