On 17 May 2022, Euronext announced that Manuel Bento has been nominated as Chief Operating Officer by the Supervisory Board of Euronext N.V., following Georges Lauchard's decision to resign from his position of COO and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V. as per 1 July, to return to London to pursue other personal and professional projects. Manuel Bento is currently CEO of Euronext Technologies in Porto and CTO IT Transversal. Prior to Euronext, Manuel was head of IT Group at SIBS Forward Payment Systems, in charge of the overall technology practice.