Bob Greifeld is Chief Executive Officer of The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company.
Greifeld assumed leadership of NASDAQ in 2003, when the company's primary business was operating one equity market in the U.S. Today, NASDAQ OMX is a leading participant in the exchange and technology sector, delivering trading, listing, financial market technology and public company services across six continents.
Mr. Greifeld has led NASDAQ OMX through a series of complex, innovative acquisitions that have extended its footprint across the world, spanning all asset classes. In 2008, he led the Exchange's combination with Stockholm-based OMX AB, as well as acquisitions of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Nord Pool, Europe's largest power market. Nasdaq OMX operates 22 markets, 10 clearing houses and supplies technology to another 65 exchanges around the world. In January 2009, NASDAQ OMX was named "Company of the Year" by Forbes magazine. Also in 2009, NASDAQ OMX was ranked as one of the best performing companies in the U.S. as part of the BusinessWeek 50, and it was named to Fortune Magazine's annual list of 100 Fastest Growing Companies.
Greifeld has been a strong advocate of modernizing exchanges and financial regulation to keep America's capital markets competitive. He has been outspoken on issues including Sarbanes Oxley, encouraging CEOs to embrace sound, modern regulation as consistent with good business practices. Greifeld has been critical of outmoded U.S. immigration policies, citing these as harmful to U.S. innovation and business growth.
Prior to joining NASDAQ OMX, Greifeld led the buy-side businesses for SunGard Data Systems. He was an entrepreneur for 10 years and with a small team, created what became the industry standard trade order management system for NASDAQ stocks. The company he led, Automated Securities Clearance and its technology platform, BRASS, was purchased by SunGard in 1999.
Greifeld holds a Masters in Business from New York University, Stern School of Business, and a B.A. in English from Iona College. His graduate school thesis was on the operation of The NASDAQ Stock Market.
Greifeld is a member of the Business Roundtable, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Partnership for New York City, an organization devoted to enhancing the local economy. He is Chairman of the USA Track & Field Foundation, which supports emerging athletes and inner city youth athletics.
Current as of: 01/10
Bruce E. Aust
Executive Vice President, Corporate Client Group
Bruce E. Aust is Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Client Group at NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange. In this role, Mr. Aust oversees global business development and relationship management with the 3,700 companies listed on NASDAQ OMX Group's 16 listing markets. Mr. Aust also has responsibility for NASDAQ OMX's Corporate Services unit, which provides investor relations, corporate governance and visibility services to public and private companies worldwide.
Mr. Aust oversees a nationwide sales force in the U.S. as well as global representatives serving countries including China, Israel, India, Russia, Japan, Korea, South America and the Nordic and Baltic regions.
During Mr. Aust's tenure, NASDAQ OMX has attracted some of the country's highest profile IPOs, including Google, Baidu, JetBlue and Verisk Analytics, as well as NYSE company switches including Mattel, News Corporation, Dreamworks, ADP, Direct TV, Liberty Media, Micron, BMC Software, and Vodafone.
Previously, Mr. Aust served as Executive Director and Vice President of the Corporate Client Group, a role in which he maintained oversight of all listed companies in the Western Region, representing 60 percent of the market cap on NASDAQ. He has assisted more than 200 companies in going public and works closely with CEOs and executives of some of the most well-known companies listed on NASDAQ. Throughout his career with the firm, he has been instrumental in managing NASDAQ OMX's international investor programs, providing listed companies with exposure to institutional investors in Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining NASDAQ in 1998, Mr. Aust spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments in a variety of sales, trading, and management positions in Dallas, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
He is the recipient of the University of Southern Mississippi College of Business Distinguished Alumni Award and The Digital Leadership award from Computers for Youth. In addition, Mr. Aust is a Technet Executive Committee member.
Executive Vice President And Chief Information Officer
Anna M. Ewing is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. In this capacity, Ms. Ewing is responsible for global software development and for NASDAQ OMX Group's technology roadmap. As NASDAQ's Chief Information Officer, she led the technology integration of the INET platform within NASDAQ's existing trading systems and was also the Technical Project Manager for the implementation of the NASDAQ Market Center and the integration of the Brut ECN. Prior to joining NASDAQ, Ms. Ewing was employed at CIBC World Markets in New York and Toronto, where she served as Managing Director of Global Applications Services and as a founding member of CIBC.com. Before that, Ms. Ewing served as Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where she held various leadership positions within the Corporate and Institutional Client Group Technology Division, including Global Head of Institutional Client Technology, Global Head of Financial Futures and Options Technology, Global Head of Prime Brokerage Technology and Regional Head of Technology at Merrill Lynch Canada.
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Chief Financial Officer
Adena Friedman is Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. In August 2009, Friedman assumed an expanded role of CFO, responsible for all financial, tax and investment matters. Friedman's responsibilities also include identifying and developing strategic opportunities for NASDAQ OMX, which she has performed since 2003.
In 2007-2008, Friedman directed NASDAQ's acquisition of OMX Group, the Nordic and Baltic market and global exchange technology business. As part of that acquisition, Friedman negotiated a unique transaction with Borse Dubai, including a NASDAQ OMX investment in NASDAQ Dubai, formerly the Dubai International Financial Exchange. Also in 2007-2008, Friedman managed NASDAQ OMX's acquisition of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the third largest options exchange in the U.S. In 2005, Friedman directed NASDAQ in its acquisition of the INET ECN, which enhanced NASDAQ's technology infrastructure and further improved its ability to trade NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX-listed stocks. Additionally, Friedman led the effort in 2004 to launch the NASDAQ Closing Cross, a very successful market innovation. Friedman continuously identifies and evaluates new opportunities for NASDAQ OMX to grow its presence in the financial community and better service traders, issuers and their shareholders.
In her role as head of Global Data Products from 2000 to 2009, a $250M business unit within NASDAQ OMX Group, Friedman was responsible for maintaining the integrity of all market data disseminated to the public, as well as creating new data products to serve the industry's information needs. Friedman focused on increasing the market transparency of the NASDAQ OMX exchanges for the ultimate benefit of investors worldwide, including the 2008 launch of NASDAQ Last Sale and European Last Sale, both of which provide real-time data to investors via Internet portals.
Friedman joined NASDAQ in 1993, where she has served in several roles, including as Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President of NASDAQ Data Products.
Friedman serves on the Board of Directors of NASDAQ Dubai. Friedman earned an M.B.A., with honors, from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Williams College in Massachusetts. Friedman lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband and two sons.
Senior Vice President, Global IT Services Operations
Carl-Magnus Hallberg is Senior Vice President of Global IT Services at The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company. In this position, he is responsible for the day to day IT operations and support services to customers around the world, including NASDAQ OMX internal operations and support.
Hallberg joined OMX in 2001 as President of Global IT Services within OMX Technology. During Hallberg's leadership, the unit grew to be one of the largest providers of IT outsourcing in the securities industry, with technology and processes tailored to meet the highest demands of its clients. Hallberg has also been actively involved in various mergers and acquisitions within OMX and Chairman of Appmind, a majority owned subsidiary of OMX.
Prior to joining OMX, Hallberg spent close to ten years in the telecom industry, predominantly at Ericsson where he held a number of positions in technology development as well as the post of Vice President EMEA Sales in Internet and Data Communications.
Hallberg is a veteran in IT. Throughout his professional career, he has been engaged in various IT projects in and around work. He was one of the pioneers programming industry applications for PC's back in the 80s. Hallberg holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and a Master in International Business Administration from Chalmers and University of Economics, Gothenburg.
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Ronald Hassen
Senior Vice President and Controller
Ronald Hassen has served as Senior Vice President and Controller since March 2002 and Principal Accounting Officer since May 2002. Previously, Mr. Hassen served as Treasurer from November 2002 through January 2007. Prior to joining Nasdaq, Hassen served as Controller of Deutsche Bank North America from June 1999, after its acquisition of Bankers Trust Company. Mr. Hassen joined Bankers Trust in 1989, serving most recently as Principal Accounting Officer from 1997 until the company's acquisition by Deutsche Bank.
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Financial Products
John Jacobs is Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President, Global Index Group for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company. As Chief Marketing Officer Jacobs plays a key role in the strategic development and implementation of the company's branding and messaging. His group is responsible for the full spectrum of NASDAQ OMX's brand marketing, including advertising, marketing communications, market research, public relations, and media relations targeting NASDAQ OMX customers and audiences in the U.S. and abroad.
As head of The NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group, Jacobs is responsible for all aspects of its business development, including the creation and licensing of strategy indexes in the U.S. and abroad.
Under his direction, NASDAQ launched the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking StockSM (QQQQ), one of the most successful financial products in stock market history. To date, NASDAQ Global Funds has launched over 1,800 products based on NASDAQ OMX Indexes in more than 39 countries around the world.
Jacobs earned his BS in accounting from the University of Maryland, is a certified public accountant (CPA), and holds an MBA from Loyola. He has taught Investment Banking and other graduate courses in the MBA programs at both Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University.
Hans-Ole Jochumsen is Executive Vice President of Transaction Services Nordics for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company. Transaction Services Nordics is an integrated marketplace of seven independent Nordic and Baltic exchanges. These Nordic exchanges offers trading of Nordic and Baltic securities shares, derivatives and fixed income products, all traded on highly efficient trading systems enabling easy cross border trading. Jochumsen is also responsible for NASDAQ OMX Commodities, the global commodities business unit within the company, encompassing among other things the clearing of financial products traded on the world's largest power exchange, Nord Pool. Furthermore, Hans-Ole Jochumsen oversees Broker Services, NASDAQ OMX's offering of back office and custody solutions to Nordic clients.
As President Transaction Services Nordics, Jochumsen's responsibility is to successfully lead the Nordic and Baltic markets to maintain and further develop the strong strategic position in the Northern European securities markets. In addition, Hans-Ole Jochumsen's EVP responsibilities also covers the Global Data Products unit. The business unit is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products and on providing unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. GDP products and services offer traders strategic advantages, including superior speed, depth and flexibility of data management and delivery. Prior to the merger between NASDAQ and OMX, Jochumsen served as President and member of the OMX Executive Team. Hans-Ole Jochumsen has played a key role in the strategic development of OMX and the business area Information Services & New Markets in particular.
Jochumsens responsibility encompassed three areas, enabling growth in Information Services, integrating and developing the Baltic markets as well as cultivating OMX business in high potential Central European capital markets. Areas of responsibility also included Broker Services, OMX's offering of back office and custody solutions to Nordic clients.
During Jochumsen's tenure, OMX has successfully launched the Nordic Market Data offering, bringing the market data distribution from seven different Nordic and Baltic marketplaces into one source. Jochumsen has also led the launch of the news distribution service and significant developments on the Baltic markets.
Previously, Jochumsen served as President and CEO of Copenhagen Stock Exchange and FUTOP Clearingcentralen Ltd. He was at the helm of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange during its exceptional turnaround from 1998-2006. He also spearheaded the merger of the Copenhagen and Stockholm exchanges.
From 1990 to 1998 Jochumsen served as member of the Manangement Board of the following Danish financial institutions; BRFkredit, GiroBank and BG Bank. The latter being the third largest bank in Denmark.
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Current as of: 03/10
Eric W. Noll
Executive Vice President, Transaction Services
Eric W. Noll oversees the trading operations of all U.S. Transaction Services business including The NASDAQ Stock Market, NASDAQ OMX BX, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, The NASDAQ Options Market, The NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange and strategic investments including International Derivatives Clearing Group.
In addition, he is responsible for NASDAQ OMX Europe, the London-based multilateral trading facility.
Mr. Noll joined NASDAQ OMX from Susquehanna International Group, LLP where he served as Managing Director of SFG, and as Associate Director and Global Head of Strategic Relationships for SIG since 1994. During his time at Susquehanna, Eric oversaw all the exchange relationships, created the investment banking department, developed an institutional equity research department and was responsible for all options and equity order flows for the market-maker operation. He also managed new businesses, strategic investments including technology, investment banking, and private equity focused businesses, as well as acquisitions and international alliances.
Prior to his time at Susquehanna International Group, Mr. Noll held positions at the former Philadelphia Stock Exchange and The Chicago Board Options Exchange. He has a Master of Business Administration from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University with a Finance Concentration and a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Economics and Government from the Franklin and Marshall College. Mr. Noll is a Trustee of Franklin and Marshall College and is a Member of the Board of Visitors of the Owen Graduate School of Management.
Edward S. Knight
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Regulatory Officer
Edward Knight is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange. Mr. Knight served as the Chief Legal Officer of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD, now FINRA) from June 1999 until becoming NASDAQ General Counsel in 2001. In his role as General Counsel, Knight is responsible for providing legal counsel to senior management and for overseeing the quality of legal services across the global organization. He is also responsible for government relations, listing qualifications, market regulation and the office of economic research. In addition, Knight oversees the Office of Corporate Secretary, which is responsible for all of NASDAQ's corporate governance activities and maintaining the Corporate Record. Mr. Knight is the Chief Regulatory Officer of the NASDAQ Exchange.
Knight led NASDAQ's efforts to operate as a national securities exchange. In January 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously approved NASDAQ's application for exchange status. This action allowed NASDAQ to complete its separation from NASD and realize its vision as the premier market in the world served by the gold standard in regulators, the NASD.
Prior to joining the NASD, Knight served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from September 1994 to June 1999, where he was the Department's longest-serving General Counsel since the position was created in 1934. Upon his departure, Knight received the Alexander Hamilton Award from Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. This is the the Department's highest award. He also received the Honor Award from the Secret Service. Before being named General Counsel, Knight served as Executive Secretary and Senior Advisor to Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen.
Knight's accomplishments at the Treasury Department include his critical involvement in the United States' provision of bilateral assistance to the Government of Mexico in 1995 and to the Government of Brazil in the fall of 1998. He served on the commission that restructured the Internal Revenue Service in 1996 and led the legal team that advised Treasury Secretary Rubin in 1995 and 1996 on the debt limit crisis.
Prior to his tenure at the Treasury, Knight was a partner with the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld in its Washington, D.C., office. A Texas native, Knight received his B.A., with honors, in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. He sits on the law school's Alumni Board of Directors. Knight is a member of the District of Columbia, Texas and Supreme Court Bars. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Knight served as a member of the Obama Transition Team at the U.S. Treasury Department in 2008-2009.
As Senior Vice President of Market Technology Mr. Lars Ottersgård is responsible for the global sales operations of NASDAQ OMX's technology business segment. Mr. Ottersgård joined OMX in January, 2006 as Head of Sales and has been in his current role with NASDAQ OMX since October, 2008.
The Market Technology business consists of five operations:
Sales - whose objective is to represent the full capability of NASDAQ OMX to Exchanges, Clearinghouses and CSD's across the globe;
Advisory & Training – which provides professional services related to knowledge transfer and strategy development. Customers include marketplaces, clearinghouses and CSDs, and central banks;
Business Development - whose primary focus is to ensure a strong and competitive portfolio of offerings that can assist existing and potential marketplace customers in maximizing their market potential with NASDAQ OMX as business partner;
Delivery Management – which is responsible for all NASDAQ OMXs external technology deliveries to global customers, and through common project governance, project control and project methodology, ensures the fulfillment of customer goals; and,
Business Control – the finance function within Market Technology that supports the business in achieving its strategic objectives.
Prior to joining OMX Mr. Ottersgård held various positions at a Nordic and European level with IBM for twenty years. His most recent position at IBM was Sector Executive for Strategic Outsourcing for the Distribution and Communication industries.
Mr. Ottersgård holds a Technical degree and a Diploma in Management at London Open Business University and a number of IBM professional certifications related to sales and management.
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