OIC Biographies

Barry Nobel

Associate Vice President – U.S. Options & Futures The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Mr. Nobel is currently part of the senior management team of the NASDAQ OMX Options & Futures Markets. Previous to this he was the Vice President of Marketing for the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

From 1984 to 1999, Mr. Nobel was general partner of Nobel Securities, a proprietary trading firm on the PHLX that traded equities, equity options, fixed-income securities and currencies. Prior to that, Mr. Nobel was associated with Newcomb Securities (Newcomb), a New York-based arbitrage trading firm. At Newcomb, he spearheaded a partnership between Newcomb and Reuters International for a screen-based trading system for U.S. Treasury fixed-income securities that included extensive promotion throughout Europe and North America.

Mr. Nobel has been an active volunteer participant in the National Adoption Center, Global Interdependence Center, and Rutgers University.

He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.