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NASDAQ OMX to Combine Market Technology and Corporate Solutions Businesses - Seite 2

the world and this reorganization reflects our focus and commitment to this
exciting and growing segment of our business.´

´Brad brings a vast amount of technology experience and leadership to NASDAQ
OMX, ´ said Ms. Ewing. ´He will lead a global team responsible for enhancing our
technology products and services by helping to create innovative new business
opportunities, extend our technology platforms and drive efficiencies. His
priority will be to enable a better experience for our customers, partners and
employees.´

Mr. Peterson was most recently Chief Information Officer for Charles Schwab
where he and his team developed and launched Schwab´s mobile brokerage and
banking applications, modernized all client channels and established centers of
excellence to attract and retain leading technology talent.

Prior to joining Charles Schwab, Mr. Peterson served as Chief Information
Officer for eBay and chief technology officer for Epoch Partners where he
established the information management and delivery team, championed the
strategic use of analytics at eBay and PayPal, led acquisition integrations and
built and managed institutional trading platforms. Mr. Peterson also previously
served in multiple technology leadership roles at Pacific Telesis and AT&T
Communications.

NASDAQ OMX delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services
across six continents, with approximately 3,400 listed companies.

About NASDAQ OMX Group

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels
economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of
a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the
U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central
securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income,
derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more
than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999%
uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and
emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world´s securities
transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the
benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed
companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we
give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world
takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn