FTSE Group Strengthens North American Pension Plan Outreach

FTSE Americas, a division of the global index provider FTSE Group, has hired Carmen Campollo as Vice President of Pension and Consultant Relations. Ms. Campollo will lead an expanded effort to convert North American public and corporate pension plans to FTSE benchmark indexes. She will be based in New York and report to Jane Staunton, President of FTSE Americas, Inc.

Ms. Campollo joins FTSE Americas from Standard & Poor's where she was Senior Director of Business Development. In this capacity, she was an architect of S&P Global and Custom Indexes as well as a member of the S&P Index Committee.

Ms. Campollo will have responsibility for all strategic planning and outreach to the North American pension plan community as well as foundations and endowments and the consultants that help influence benchmarking decisions.

Commenting on the appointment, Jane Staunton, President, FTSE Americas said, "Carmen has a wealth of experience in the index business and we are fortunate to have someone of her calibre join our strong and rapidly growing team. Her proven leadership and broad skill set will provide a significant boost to our efforts to convert pension assets to FTSE global benchmarks."

Prior to joining Standard & Poor's, Ms. Campollo was an emerging markets analyst at the International Finance Corporation, responsible for the development and performance analytics of the IFC emerging markets indexes. Earlier in her career, she was a researcher for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Ms. Campollo holds an MBA from Marymount University in Virginia and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Las Americas University in Mexico.