Professor Michael Aitken has been appointed chief executive of Capital Markets Co-Operative Research Centre following the resignation of Professor Alex Frino.
Professor Frino has stepped down to take up a new role as dean of Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
He is well known for his research and commentary on high-frequency trading and dark pools over the past two years.
Capital Markets Co-Operative Research Centre has also appointed Dr David Skellern as new chairman.
Dr Skellern, who has a distinguished career in the Australian technology industry, led the project that invented wifi, along with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
