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Management Structure

	Michael A. Gooch Executive Chairman
Mr. Gooch founded the business of GFI Group Inc. in 1987 and was GFI’s Chief Executive Officer from 1987 until early 2013. Mr. Gooch still serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to this, Mr. Gooch worked for Citibank, Refco Group, Bierbaum Martin, Harlow Meyer Savage and Tullet & Tokyo Forex. Mr. Gooch is the President and majority shareholder of Jersey Partners, the largest shareholder of GFI. Mr. Gooch served for eight years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Monmouth University in New Jersey and was a Board Member of the Count Basie Theatre Foundation, Red Bank, NJ. In 2007, Global Capital Associates honored Mr. Gooch with the Theodor Herzl award, which salutes “people who had a vision to build new enterprises and movements and change existing paradigms; people with the courage to do something different.”

	Colin Heffron Chief Executive Officer
Colin Heffron was appointed Chief Executive Officer of GFI Group Inc. in 2013, and is responsible for the overall management of GFI’s global businesses. Joining the firm in 1988 as a broker of foreign currency options in New York, Mr. Heffron was one of the first employees of GFI Group Inc. He subsequently moved to London to assist in the establishment of GFI’s London office and from 1994 to 1997 he was head of the currency options business and managed the day-to-day operations of all of GFI’s European businesses. In 1998 his responsibilities increased as he became the joint head of all Asian operations. Mr. Heffron was appointed President in February of 2004 and has been a member of GFI’s Board of Directors since 2001. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Trayport, an energy trading technology provider and wholly owned subsidiary of GFI, as well as on the Board of Directors of BondDesk Group LLC, a leading fixed income technology platform. Mr. Heffron graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Government from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.

	James A. Peers Chief Financial Officer
James Peers, Chief Financial Officer, joined the company in August 2002. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Peers was a Senior Vice President at Bank One in Chicago from 1999 to 2001 where he held various positions, including Corporate Controller. He also was the Chief Financial Officer for Rabobank International in New York and a Senior Vice President—Corporate Development for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in New York. Mr. Peers is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Accountant and was a partner at Ernst & Young where he spent 18 years working in its Toronto and Chicago offices.

	Ron Levi Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Levi has been Chief Operating Officer of GFI Group since May 2006. He is responsible for the company’s operational activities globally. Since 2010, Mr. Levi has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kyte Group Ltd, an integrated clearing, broking and investment services provider, and a subsidiary of GFI Group. Mr. Levi joined GFI in 1993 and became Managing Director, Europe in 2004. Prior to holding this position, Mr. Levi managed the company’s European energy business. In 2008, Mr. Levi led the acquisition of Trayport Ltd, a leading provider of software to the global commodity trading community. Before joining GFI, Mr. Levi was the Director of Fixed Income at Garban PLC.

	J. Christopher Giancarlo Executive Vice President
Mr. Giancarlo is responsible for GFI’s strategic development and communications. Mr. Giancarlo joined GFI in 2001 as part of the acquisition of FENICS®, where he structured strategic alliances with major investment banks. Prior to joining FENICS®, he was a partner in the New York law firm, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP, where he practiced corporate and securities law. Mr. Giancarlo is a retired board member and former Chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers Association, Americas. He is also founding Co Editor-in-Chief, eSecurities: Trading and Regulation on the Internet (Leader Publications).

	Scott Pintoff General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Mr. Pintoff joined GFI in April 2000. Prior to assuming the duties of General Counsel in April 2002, Mr. Pintoff was GFI’s Associate General Counsel. Before joining GFI he was an Associate with the law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP from 1996 to 2000.

	Julian Swain Senior Managing Director – Head of London
Mr. Swain joined GFI in 2001 to head GFI’s European credit business. He became Managing Director – London in 2006 and was appointed as Head of GFI London in March 2007. Mr. Swain also has responsibility for GFI’s offices in Dublin, Dubai, Cape Town and Switzerland. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Swain was at ICAP for 8 years, where he managed various credit desks. Mr. Swain graduated from Loughborough University in 1988 with an MSc in Economics and Management Science.

	Marc Souffir Managing Director - Head of Paris
Mr. Souffir joined GFI at the end of 2005 as Managing Director - International Futures and Equities. In this role he assisted in establishing GFI’s Paris operations. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Refco’s Paris office. Before working at Refco, Mr. Souffir was a manager of various equities, equity derivatives and financial futures products at IFF, a division of AXA.

	Scott Tatham Managing Director – Head of Asia
Mr. Tatham is responsible for the day-to-day operations of GFI’s Asian brokerage businesses. He joined GFI in 2005 and recently headed GFI’s interest rate swaps business in New York. Mr. Tatham has over 20 years’ experience in interdealer broking, working in all the world’s major financial centres. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Tatham worked at Harlow and Tullett Prebon, where he brokered and managed fixed income, equity derivatives, credit derivatives and FX derivative products and businesses.

	Richard Brunt Managing Director - FENICS®
Mr. Brunt joined FENICS from Thomson Financial Asia in 2004 where he was Commercial Director, South East Asia and Head of Major Accounts, Asia Pacific. Mr. Brunt oversees GFI’s global FENICS business. He holds a BA in Theology and Anthropology from Durham University.

	Nick Brown Managing Director – Head of Financial Product Brokerage, Americas
Mr. Brown joined GFI in November 2003. Prior to this, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director of Technolia LLC, a telecom consulting company from 1998 until 2000. Mr. Brown’s experience in the interdealer brokerage industry includes positions as Managing Director, North America of Tullett & Tokyo between 1990 and 1996 and President of Harlow Meyer Savage from 1986 and 1989. Mr. Brown is also a director of Jersey Partners, the largest shareholder of GFI. In addition, Mr. Brown serves as a director of the Financial Markets Association and was formerly a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Steering Committee.

	Richard Giles Managing Director - Head of Commodities and Energy Brokerage, North America & Head of Credit Brokerage, North America
Richard Giles joined GFI in 1993 and worked across a number of divisions; currency options, energy and credit, both in Hong Kong and in London. In July 2010 he was appointed Managing Director – Head of Commodities and Energy Brokerage, North America. He is responsible in overseeing all of GFI’s commodity business in North America, including its subsidiaries; Amerex and Starsupply. Richard previously served as Head of Credit at GFI’s London office where he looked after all of GFI’s credit business in London including single-name credit default swaps, credit indices, corporate and high yield bonds, leveraged loans and structured credit, including index tranches.

	James Martin Managing Director - London
Mr. Martin joined GFI in 1992. As GFI's Managing Director, London, Mr. Martin works alongside Mr. Swain in the running of the London brokerage business. Mr. Martin has held a number of roles at GFI, including the running of the FX cross options business, moving later into GFI's e-Commerce division as a product manager in London, then New York. He returned to London in 2004 to set up GFI's credit index desk and was also responsible for running GFI's structured credit business. Before he joined GFI, Mr.Martin traded currency options and US goverment securities at Bank of New York.

	Tom Cancro Corporate Controller
Mr. Cancro joined GFI in 2008 from Mastec, Inc. where he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller. He has over 18 years’ experience in finance, accounting and operations in the U.S. and abroad and previously served as Chief Financial Officer of EuroTel, a joint venture between Verizon, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom based in Europe, and steered that company through its debt IPO and SEC registration. Mr. Cancro also previously headed Verizon's Capital Markets Strategy team, and held roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. Mr. Cancro holds a BSc in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a CFA Charter.

	Jerry Dobner Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Dobner joined GFI in 2001. He oversees business analysis, quality assurance and development of GFI’s electronic trading platforms, including technology development, system support and investments in GFI FENICS and Trayport, a subsidiary of GFI Group Inc. During his time at GFI, Mr. Dobner has helped develop CreditMatch, FENICS DealFX, GFI FENICS and most recently managed the development of GFI’s energy trading platform, EnergyMatch®. Prior to joining GFI, Mr Dobner developed real-time stock quote software at NewsAlert.
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