Nasdaq Conducts Annual Election for Subsidiary Board Directors

NEW YORK, July 02, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. NDAQ announces the appointment of eleven directors to The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC, and NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. Boards. Directors serve a one-year term.  

The name and title of directors appointed to the Board of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC and NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. are highlighted below:

• Leonard J. Amoruso, Partner/Shareholder, Murphy & McGonigle
   
• Daniel Bigelow, President and Managing Partner of Monadnock Capital Management L.P.
   
• Michael J. Curran, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Stock Exchange
   
• David J. Frear, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
   
• Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
   
• Hans-Ole Jochumsen, President, Nasdaq
   
• Thomas A. Kloet, retired CEO and Executive Director, TMX Group, Limited
   
• William M. Lyons, retired President and Chief Executive Officer of American Century Companies, Inc.
   
• John D. Markese, Vice Chairman, American Association of Individual Investors
   
• A. Douglas Melamed, Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
   
• Wendy S. White, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, University of Pennsylvania

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