Maureen
O’Hara has been the Chairman of our Board of Directors since
May 2007 and a director since January 2003. She was our Lead Director
from January 2005 until May 2007. She is the Robert W. Purcell Professor
of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
She holds degrees from the University of Illinois (B.S. Economics)
and Northwestern University (M.S. Economics and Ph.D. Finance). In
December 2006, Ms. O’Hara joined the board of directors of NewStar
Financial Inc. Ms. O’Hara joined the faculty at Cornell in 1979.
She has had visiting appointments at UCLA, the London Business School,
the University of New South Wales, Cambridge University, and Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology. Ms. O’Hara’s
research focuses on issues in market microstructure, and she is the
author of numerous journal articles as well as the book Market Microstructure
Theory (Blackwell: 1995). In addition, Ms. O’Hara publishes
widely on a broad range of topics in finance, including banking, law
and finance, and experimental economics. She has served as President
of the Western Finance Association and recently served as President
of the American Finance Association.
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Robert
C. Gasser has been a director and the President and Chief Executive
Officer of the company since October 4, 2006. Mr. Gasser was
Chief Executive Officer of NYFIX, Inc. (“NYFIX”), a
global electronic trade execution firm, from November 2005 to September 2006.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Gasser served as Chief Executive Officer
of NYFIX Millennium LLC, a subsidiary of NYFIX, and President of NYFIX
Transaction Services Inc. and NYFIX Clearing Corporation. Mr. Gasser
was Head of U.S. Equity Trading at JP Morgan from 1999 to 2001.
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J. William
Burdett has been a director since July 2001 and was non-executive director of ITG Australia Ltd., a subsidiary
of ITG between December 2006 to April 2007. In 2006, Mr. Burdett joined the board of IRESS Market Technology
Ltd., a leading provider of market data, financial planning and order
routing services to the equities markets in Australia, New Zealand and
Canada. From 1988 until March 2001, Mr. Burdett was Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of the Burdett Buckeridge Young Group (“BBY”),
which is comprised of the two Australian broker/dealer companies; BBY
and Australian Clearing Services. From 1970 until 1987, Mr. Burdett
was a partner and director of A.C. Goode & Co., one of the
largest stock-brokering/investment banking companies in Australia. Mr. Burdett
was a non-executive director of BBY and ITG Australia Ltd. from
November 2000 through November 2002.
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Timothy
L. Jones has been a director since March 2005. Since October 2007, Mr. Jones has been Chief Executive Officer and director of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, an advisory non-departmental public body of the Department for Work and Pensions within the United Kingdom government. From December 2002 to January 2005, Mr. Jones was the Chief Executive Officer of Simpay Limited, a mobile phone payment system company. In November 2004, Mr. Jones joined the board of Groves Malthouse Management Limited, a real estate management company. Mr. Jones co-founded Purseus, a company developing a new architecture for correspondent banking, and was Chief Executive Officer of Purseus from April 2000 to November 2002. Prior to that, for 17 years, Mr. Jones was at National Westminster Bank PLC where he held various positions in the Operations, Information Technology Strategy and Policy, Mondex, Electronic Markets and Retail Banking Services divisions, eventually becoming a Managing Director in 1996 and Chief Executive of the retail banking division in 1999.
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Robert
L. King has been a director since June 1994. Since July 2005,
Mr. King has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
Click Sales, Inc., an online retailer of digital download products.
From October 2001 through May 2004, Mr. King was the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Requisite Technology, Inc.,
which helps companies to create, organize, and manage product and service
information for efficient web-based finding, buying, and selling. Mr. King
is currently a Director of Clarity Imaging Technologies, Inc. and
Office Source. Mr. King was the President and Chief Executive Officer
of Corporate Express, Inc., a distributor of office and computer
supplies, from 1998 to 2001. Mr. King has also been a director
of Corporate Express, Inc. and served as the President and Chief
Operating Officer of Corporate Express, Inc. from 1993 until 1998.
Prior to 1993, Mr. King was employed by FoxMeyer Corporation, a
distributor of health and pharmaceutical products, where he was Chief
Executive Officer from 1989 to 1993, President from 1988 to 1993, and
Chief Operating Officer from 1988 to 1989.
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Kevin
J. P. O’Hara has been a director since January 2007. From May, 2006 to July, 2007, Mr. O’Hara served as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of CBOT Holdings, Inc. Previously, he served as Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Archipelago Holdings, Inc. from 1999 to 2006 and served as Executive Vice President and Co-General Counsel of NYSE Group, Inc. in 2006. Prior to joining Archipelago, Mr. O’Hara worked in Romania and Lithuania from 1995 to 1999 on the development of legal, regulatory and technology infrastructure of emerging capital markets. He served as Senior Attorney in Bucharest, Romania, for Financial Markets International, Inc. and Project Director in Vilnius, Lithuania, and project Manager on other regional projects while based in the United States for the Pragma Corporation. Prior to his international experience, Mr. O’Hara worked in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., as Senior Counsel from 1994 to 1995 and as Staff Attorney from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Mr. O’Hara served as Special Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1988 to 1991, he practiced corporate and commercial litigation at the Chicago law firm of Ross & Hardies, now McGuire Woods Ross & Hardies. He previously served from 2003 to 2005 on the board of managers of White Cap Trading, L.L.C., an institutional agency broker.
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Brian J. Steck
has been a director since September 2004. Mr. Steck is currently
President and Director of St. Andrews Financial Corp., a private financial
and investment company and he has served as an advisor to Harris Bank
since 2005. Mr. Steck also serves as Chairman of the Board of Purolator
Courier and as a director of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and CMA (Canadian
Medical Association) Holdings Inc. Mr. Steck was Chairman and CEO
of Nesbitt Burns Inc. and its subsidiaries from 1990 until his retirement
in 1999. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Bank of Montreal, responsible
for wealth management and investment banking from 1992 to 1999. Mr. Steck
is past Chairman of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, the
Canadian Securities Institute, the Canadian District of the Securities
Industry Association of America, and past Governor of the Toronto Stock
Exchange.
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