Anna Ewing

Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Anna Ewing is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange. At $12.7 trillion, it was ranked the largest single pool of liquidity in the world in 2010 based on value traded on its markets.

Anna has over 25 years experience in delivering client-focused technology in the financial services industry. In her role at NASDAQ OMX, Anna is responsible for Global Technology Services and the Market Technology business unit, which provides commercial technology solutions to over 70 exchanges and markets around the world. Integral to Ms. Ewing's role is overseeing the exchange's technology roadmap.

Since assuming her position, Ms. Ewing has been the technology architect for NASDAQ OMX's transformation from a single U.S. cash equities market to an exchange company with 24 markets around the globe, covering all major asset classes. In addition to the OMX merger, Ms. Ewing and her team have re-platformed company acquisitions including BX, formerly the Boston Exchange and NASDAQ OMX PHLX and have successfully rolled out the INET trading system in all NASDAQ OMX equity markets across the world. The Technology team at NASDAQ OMX has supported the launch of dozens of new products across all of the company's business units. All this was accomplished while providing 99.99+% uptime for its markets, which experienced record volumes during the financial crisis. Most recently, Ms. Ewing oversaw the acquisition of SMARTS, the world leading provider of market surveillance technology for exchange, regulator, and broker markets worldwide. She also manages the global technology operations for FTEN, a leading provider of real-time risk management solutions, which was acquired by NASDAQ OMX in December 2010.

As a widely recognized expert, technology innovator and driver of company and industry growth, Anna participates and is frequently featured as a speaker at a variety of events globally. Ms. Ewing regularly participates in leading financial industry conferences, global economic forums, such as The World Economic Forum, and other technology-focused events.

Prior to joining NASDAQ, Anna was with 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 Technology. She is a graduate of Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Ms. Ewing holds an M.B.A. from York University in Toronto, where she majored in Management Information Systems.