Executive Committee Biographies

Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC), and Head of Trading, EMEA

Eric Bommensath is a Managing Director and Head of FICC at Barclays Capital, responsible for the Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Emerging Markets and Prime Services businesses globally. He is also responsible for all trading in the EMEA region.

Mr. Bommensath is a member of the Executive Committee of Barclays Capital.

He joined Barclays Capital in London in 1997 as Head of Derivatives, Europe. He was appointed Head of Fixed Income in 2002. Between 2006 and August 2010 he was based in New York and held the additional position of Head of Trading, Americas. He relocated back to London in September 2010 to assume his current position.

Prior to joining Barclays Capital, Mr. Bommensath spent eight years at Bankers Trust in London, Tokyo and Paris. A French national, he began his career trading French government bonds before moving to European fixed income derivatives in 1991. He was appointed a Managing Director in 1995 with responsibility for Japanese fixed income derivatives and then headed the firm’s European fixed income and FX options books.

Mr. Bommensath studied Science at École Polytechnique in Paris and Engineering at École Ponts et Chaussées.