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100 Women in Hedge Funds, a non-profit organization for professionals in the investment management industry, today announced the appointment of Sandra A. Urie to its Association Board, further augmenting the organization’s growing worldwide network and expanding the breadth of its Board. Ms. Urie is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Associates LLC, a leading global provider of independent investment advice and research to institutional investors and private clients.

Nomura International Plc, the Asia-based investment bank, today announced the appointment of Russell Watson as global head of product control.

Watson joins Nomura from Goldman Sachs. He is a highly respected figure in the industry with more than 15 years experience. Based in London, Mr. Watson will work widely across the Nomura Finance Function leading a team of more than 200 people.

Markit, a financial information services company, today announced that it has appointed Kathy Benini as director of Commodities in New York.

Benini will be responsible for product development for Markit’s commodities business in North America. She will report to Sal Naro and Niall Cameron, executive vice presidents and global co-heads of Equities, Commodities and Risk Management based in New York and London respectively.

Reval, a global leader in derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions and services, today announced the opening of its Hong Kong office and the appointment of Will Marsden as sales director, Asia. With current operations in Australia, New Zealand and India, this announcement marks Reval’s continued growth, expansion and commitment within Asia Pacific.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has named David Boberski as Managing Director, OTC Research and New Product Development. In this newly created position, Boberski, 33, will be responsible for identifying and developing new product opportunities in credit and interest rates, adapting existing CME Group products and services to the over-the-counter (OTC) markets and educating CME Group customers on CME Group credit and interest rate products.

Reval, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services is pleased to announce the appointments of Marzio Trotta as svp of Client Services and Justin Brimfield as svp of Business Development.

RiskVal Financial Solutions, the leading provider of premier fixed income proprietary trading solutions, has appointed David N.W. Sawyer to the new position of head of Marketing, North America.

This further strengthens the strong management team of RiskVal and helps the company capitalize on the increasing demand for state of the art fixed income risk valuation trading solutions in today’s current market turbulence.

 Calypso Technology Inc, a global application software provider of an integrated trading application suite to the capital markets industry, today announced that the firm has hired Mark Robinson as chief financial officer. Robinson brings over 20 years experience successfully architecting and executing the treasury and financial management strategies for various technology firms.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has named Marcus Katz as director, Interest Rate Products. Katz, 47, will be responsible for expanding CME Group's presence in the over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate market and growing the company's global customer base. These responsibilities will include leading efforts to market CME Group's benchmark interest rate products as tools to replicate OTC derivative transactions and developing new interest rate products and services related to the OTC markets.