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Robert Steel has resigned from the U.S. ment advisors and -dealers. He previ - sent the ’s interests in Washington. Peter Treasury Department and will become chief ously served as general counsel and executive Scher , a former official in the Clinton admin - executive officer of Corp., a large vice president of Invesco. Walter is a senior istration and former Congressional aide, has based in . executive vice president at the FINRA (for - been named executive vice president for Steel was the Treasury under secretary for merly NASD), coordinating policy issues and global government relations and public policy. domestic finance and one of Treasury directing the regulation of sales. He replaced Rick Lazio , a former Republican Secretary Henry Paulson’s closest advisors. Prior to joining NASD, she was the general congressman from , who remains Anthony Ryan , the assistant secretary for finan - counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading with the bank. Scher previously was managing cial markets, will take on a broader role in Commission. Paredes is a law professor from partner in the Washington office of the law managing Treasury’s domestic finance and Washington University in St. Louis. He has firm of Mayer Brown. During the Clinton financial markets agenda. David Nason , assis - conducted research in areas such as executive years, he was a special trade negotiator in the tant secretary for financial institutions, will compensation, hedge funds, intellectual prop - Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and continue to spearhead regulatory reform efforts erty transactions, and the impact of psychol - chief of staff at the Commerce Department. and oversee financial institutions policy. Steel, ogy on corporate decision making and a former executive, joined investor behavior. NYSE Euronext named Thomas Callahan , Treasury in July 2006. formerly the head of Lynch’s global The Securities and Exchange Commission financial futures and options business, as exec - The U.K. government has chosen Adair named Daniel Gallagher as deputy director in utive vice president and the head of the U.S. Turner , a high-profile government adviser and the agency’s trading and markets division, futures exchange that it expects to launch later the former director-general of the which is headed by Erik Sirri . He will work this year. The exchange will start with trading Confederation of British Industry, as the new alongside Robert Colby , who is also deputy in the precious metals contracts that NYSE chairman of the Authority. director. Sirri said in a statement that creating Euronext bought from CME Group earlier this He will take over in September when the cur - a second deputy director position was needed year. Callahan, who worked at Merrill for 15 rent chairman Callum McCarthy steps down at to address the expansion of the division’s years, joined NYSE Euronext in July and the end of his five-year term. Turner is cur - responsibilities in such areas as investment reports to Hugh Freedberg , group executive rently a director at several firms, including bank oversight. Gallagher has served as coun - vice president and head of global derivatives. , as well as the head of the sel to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox since NYSE Euronext also appointed Joseph government’s committee on climate change. 2007, and before that he served as counsel to Mecane as executive vice president and chief The FSA also appointed three senior advi - Commissioner Paul Atkins . administrative officer for U.S. markets. He is sors to bolster its wholesale and institutional responsible for U.S. market planning, analysis business unit: Jeremy Bennett , a former co- Neal Shear , ’s former head and project oversight, and reports to Lawrence head of fixed income for Europe and emerging of fixed income trading, joined buyout firm Leibowitz , group executive vice president and markets at First Boston; Simon Apollo Management to start a commodity trad - head of U.S. execution and global technology. Stockwell , a former head of the European cor - ing business. Shear worked at Morgan Stanley Mecane previously worked at UBS as a man - porate advisory business at Lehman Brothers for more than 25 years, mostly in commodity aging director in the equities division, and and a former head of surveillance for the trading. He left the firm at the end of February. before that at Schwab Capital Markets as chief Securities and Futures Authority; and David John Shapiro , who worked under Shear for operating officer. Smith , formerly senior partner in charge of many years and took over commodities trading KPMG forensic accounting in the U.K. in 2005 after Shear was promoted to head of MF Global hired Bernie Dan , the former fixed income, announced in July that he plans president and chief executive officer of the The U.S. Senate confirmed three nomina - to retire from Morgan Stanley at the end of the Chicago Board of Trade, as chief operating offi - tions to the Securities and Exchange Commis- year. In a related announcement, Colin Bryce cer of its North American businesses. He also sion on June 27, bringing the five-person agency and Simon Greenshields were named as co- joined the company’s global executive manage - up to full strength. Two of the nominees— Luis heads of global commodities. Bryce, previously ment committee. MF Global also elected Aguilar and Elisse Walter —are Democrats, and European head of commodities, is based in Martin Glynn , the former chief executive officer one— Troy Paredes —is a Republican. Aguilar is . Greenshields, previously global head of HSBC Bank USA, to its . a securities lawyer at McKenna Long & of power and gas, is based in New York. Aldridge in Atlanta. His practice focuses on cor - TSX Group named Thomas Kloet as its porate governance, public and private offerings, J.P. Morgan Chase hired a prominent new chief executive. TSX owns the , mutual funds, invest - lawyer with Democratic connections to repre - and recently acquired the

36 Futures Industry Montreal Exchange. Kloet previously was Krause , who retired on June 30 following 23 Commodity Exchange. Ang previ - chief operating officer of Fimat USA, and years at the exchange. Kometer, who served as ously was the managing director for derivatives before that chief executive officer of the Krause’s deputy, has been with the exchange and group treasury at DBS Vickers Singapore Exchange. for 14 years. He will report to CME Group (Singapore), where he was instrumental in The Boston Options Exchange named Chief Operating Officer Bryan Durkin and will expanding the company’s infrastructure to Will Easley , one of its founders, as the interim be responsible for leading the company’s tech - cover exchange–traded and over–the–counter chief executive officer. He filled the vacancy nology and enterprise computing division, commodity products. Ang worked at Refco created when Scott Morris left the company in which provides systems to support electronic (Singapore) Pte Ltd from 1984 to 2005. mid-June. trade matching, inbound and outbound order SGX also appointed Amy Balan as senior routing, clearing, , trading floor vice president and head of corporate commu - Ronald Filler , a managing director at technology and other corporate processes. nications. She replaced Kelly Long , who has Lehman Brothers and a member of the FIA CME Group hired R. Jason Weller as man - decided to leave the exchange to pursue other board of directors, will join the New York Law aging director, corporate strategy. He will interests. Balan joined SGX from Astro All School this fall as director of a new academic report to Kendal Vroman , managing director Networks plc, where she was the head of center on financial services law. Filler is retir - and chief corporate development officer. investor relations. She was also previously a ing from Lehman after more than fifteen years Weller most recently served as managing senior correspondent with The Straits Times at the firm. director of research and business development and The Business Times newspapers. for Willis Stein and Partners, a The International Financial firm based in Chicago. Newedge hired a five-man team in Hong Exchange appointed Nasdaq official Jeffrey Kong that will specialize in financial futures Singer as its new chief executive officer. At Singapore Exchange appointed Jeremy and options for institutional investors such as Nasdaq, Singer was senior vice president respon - Ang Peng Leong , a former Refco executive, as asset managers and located in the Asia- sible for the exchange’s global business develop - chief executive officer of the recently acquired Pacific region. Lewis Ng , the leader of the ment and international relationships. Singer replaced Per Larsson , who has accepted another senior position in the region. Larsson served for FIA News two years at DIFX and played a key role in establishing the exchange’s relationship with The FIA has hired Paul Archambeault as chief financial officer. He joined the association Nasdaq OMX. Borse Dubai, a government-con - from the Air Transport Association of America, where he was chief financial officer and trolled holding company that owns DIFX, treasurer. He will be responsible for all the financial operations of the FIA. acquired just under 20% of Nasdaq OMX last year through a share swap, and as part of that The FIA’s Law and Compliance Division elected a new slate of officers to serve until May deal Nasdaq OMX bought a third of DIFX. 2009. Bonnie Litt , Goldman Sachs was elected president. Dennis Klejna , MF Global and Maria Chiodi , Credit Suisse Securities were elected vice presidents. Michelle Broom , Macquarie The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Futures was elected treasurer. Yvonne Downs , Newedge USA was elected secretary. announced that Gary King , its current chief executive officer, will leave the exchange in The FIA Information Technology Division has elected a new slate of officers who will the coming months and will hand over his serve until May 2009. Leslie Sutphen , Newedge Financial, was elected president. Brian King , responsibilities to Thomas Leaver , currently Capital, was elected first vice president. Matthew Rees , R.J. O’Brien & Associates, chief operating officer. DME also announced was elected second vice president. Russell Abramson , JPMorgan Futures, was elected treas - that its chief marketing officer, Jerald David , urer. John Rapa , Tellefsen and Company, was elected secretary. The IT Division also elected will leave the exchange in August 2008 and the following people to the division’s executive committee: Russell Abramson , JPMorgan return to the U.S. David was seconded to Futures; Linda Bracken , YJT Solutions; Steven Brucato , Goldman Sachs; Dominic DME by the New York Mercantile Exchange Colantuono , R.J. O’Brien & Associates; Brian King , Barclays Capital; Inna Gelin , Tellefsen during the exchange’s start-up phase and and Company; George Haase , treasurer, FIA Futures Services Division; Lyle Hayhurst , DRW played a key role in promoting its products Trading Group; James Johanik , TradeHelm; Olivia Lauezzari , Global Markets; and coordinating with Nymex. Lynn Martin , NYSE Euronext; Diane McFadden , ICE Clear U.S.; Michael Meagher , Penson GHCO; John Munro , Rolfe & Nolan Systems; John Rapa , Tellefsen and Company; Matthew CME Group promoted Kevin Kometer to Rees , R.J. O’Brien & Associates; Robert Brown , BGC Partners; Diane Saucier , Trading chief information officer. He succeeded James Technologies; and Leslie Sutphen , Newedge Financial.

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team, has over 20 years of experience in the tive director and acting chief technology offi - ment of the firm’s proprietary real-time trading derivatives industry and has held senior posi - cer. Oddie previously ran the exchange busi - system that models and manages risk. Bublik tions at ABN Amro, HSBC Futures and ness for AEMS. Both Bouhelier and Oddie has more than 18 years of experience in build - Fimat. Prior to joining Newedge, he managed worked at Instinet before joining AEMS. ing pricing models and risk management sys - the equity futures and options desk for UBS in tems in equities, foreign exchange, interest Hong Kong. Two other members of the R.J. O’Brien & Associates named Kimberly rates and fixed income. He was most recently team— Kam Chiu Man and Nelson Ho —also Lynch as corporate general counsel. She previ - executive director in charge of quantitative joined Newedge from UBS. Alan Chan joined ously was senior vice president and associate development of arbitrage opportunities for the from HSBC Futures and Victor Yu came from general counsel of LaSalle Bank Corporation convertible bonds and credit arbitrage funds at MF Global Hong Kong. where she headed the legal department’s regu - UBS O’Connor. latory and corporate affairs group in North The International Securities Exchange America. Before that she worked in ABN Jessica Bertoldi has joined the Clearing elected three new members to its board of Amro/LaSalle’s commodities business, serving Corporation as assistant general counsel. She directors. Thomas Eichelmann , chief financial for over 10 years in its treasury and fixed previously was associate general counsel at officer of Deutsche Börse, will join the ISE income divisions. Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing in board as a non–industry director. Matthew Chicago. CCorp also appointed Stanislav Andresen , co–head of Citadel Derivatives Robert Paul joined the New York office of Ivanov as chief risk officer. He previously was Group and president of Citadel Execution DLA Piper as counsel. He previously worked first vice president of quantitative risk man - Services, and Timothy Brennan , managing as general counsel for the Stock agement at The Options Clearing Corpora- director at Merrill Lynch responsible for listed Exchange, OneChicago and the Commodity tion, where he helped design the STANS risk options automated market making business Futures Trading Commission. management system, and chief risk officer at development, will join the board as represen - LJM Partners. tatives of ISE’s Primary Market Makers and Otto Lyons is leaving Morgan Stanley, where Competitive Market Makers, respectively. he was compliance officer responsible for non- The International Precious Metals The ISE also promoted Boris Ilyevsky to man - listed commodity-related activities, to join Institute, a –based association of pro - aging director of its options exchange. Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy, where he will ducers, refiners, and other groups in the pre - Ilyevsky has been with ISE since 1999 and be vice president and compliance officer. cious metals business, elected George Gero of has held key positions in marketing, technol - RBC as its president. ogy and market operations. Securities hired Derek Gero also is a director of the New York Davies as a managing director and head of Mercantile Exchange. David Krell , the founder and former chief Canadian commodities within the firm’s global executive officer of the International markets division. He will be based in Calgary Tokyo Grain Exchange named Shoji Securities Exchange, joined the board of direc - and report to Tim Sullivan , managing director Yamano , a former senior official in the tors of Sophis, a provider of risk management and head of commodities sales and origination Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, technology that is majority owned by Advent in North America. He previously worked at as the senior executive vice president. In International, a U.S. private equity company UBS as head of European power, gas, and August 2006 he retired from MAFF after 32 that has made several investments in the secu - emissions marketing. years of service. rities industry. Sophis, whose clients are mainly investment banks and money man - Securities lawyer Stuart Caswell has joined The Minneapolis Grain Exchange pro - agers, said Krell will provide “strategic advice” the law firm Bryan Cave as a partner in its moted Todd Posthuma to associate director, as it looks to grow its share of the North Washington office. He will be focused on market operations and information technol - American risk technology market. financial services regulation with special ogy. Posthuma previously managed projects emphasis on broker-dealers. Caswell worked at and operations in the market operations and Celoxica Holdings, a U.K. provider of low the Securities Industry Association until 2004, information technology departments. latency trading solutions, has appointed Jean- then joined the law firm Dechert. Marc Bouhelier as chairman and chief operat - Jack Jeffery joined SuperDerivatives, the ing officer. Bouhelier, who joined the company LJM Partners, an investment management options pricing provider, as chief operations as a non-executive director in October 2007, firm specializing in managed futures, hired officer. Jeffery was chief executive officer of previously was chief executive of Atos Guillermo Bublik as chief risk officer. He is ICAP Electronic Broking and before that chief Euronext Market Solutions. In addition, the responsible for developing quantitative risk executive officer of EBS, the foreign exchange company appointed John Oddie as non-execu - management tools and furthering the develop - trading platform acquired by ICAP.

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