Dr. Benon Janos has been CFO of flatexDEGIRO AG since 2023 and was appointed Deputy CEO in October 2024. He has been CFO of the banking subsidiary flatexDEGIRO Bank AG since 2021. He has many years of experience in the fintech industry and also worked for almost 15 years in various securities trading roles at the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Benon joined flatexDEGIRO and its predecessor companies in 2016. At that time, he became Head of Business Customers and IT and was later responsible for the B2C end customer business, including the European internationalization strategy. He was also managing director of several subsidiaries, including the brokerage platform ViTrade for professional traders.
Prior to that, Benon Janos worked for Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt from 2001 to 2014. There, he held various positions in securities trading. Most recently, he was Managing Director in the Securities Department and headed equity sales in Germany and Austria. He was also Managing Director of the subsidiary Goldman, Sachs & Co. Wertpapier GmbH.