NASDAQ Appoints William O'Brien As Senior Vice President Of Market Data Distribution

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ)(R) (OTC Bulletin Board: NDAQ), today announced the appointment of William O'Brien as Senior Vice President of NASDAQ Market Data Distribution within the NASDAQ Data Products Division. As one of NASDAQ's four primary businesses, Data Products maintains the integrity of all market data disseminated to the public and works with NASDAQ Technology Services to create new data products to serve the industry's information needs. In this position, Mr. O'Brien will be responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading of NASDAQ(R) securities.

Mr. O'Brien reports to Adena Friedman, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Data Products. Mr. O'Brien is currently Chief Operating Officer of Brut, LLC. He helped lead Brut through its September 7th acquisition by NASDAQ. Prior to serving as COO of BRUT, Mr. O'Brien served at Brut as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, with responsibilities that included management of Brut's legal affairs, regulatory strategy and Compliance Department.

Commenting on the appointment, Adena Friedman said: "NASDAQ welcomes Mr. O'Brien at a very important time in the market data industry. Bill offers proven leadership, invaluable experience and depth of knowledge. These important attributes will help NASDAQ attain even greater levels of integrity and innovation and maintain NASDAQ's position as a trusted source of market information among investors and issuers."

NASDAQ Data Products provides NASDAQ traders, issuers and professional and non-professional investors with an excellent source of transparency and market data. Data Products leverages the high-quality, highly valued data that results from NASDAQ's transaction and issuer systems to help market participants serve the needs of investors.

Data Products' premier data offering is TotalView(SM), which displays more than twice the market depth than the conventional Level II product. TotalView provides all quotes and orders for every price level in the NASDAQ Market Center, which enables investors to make the smartest, most-informed trading decisions.

NASDAQ's other data packages also provide customers with multiple depth views of the orders and quotes available in NASDAQ Market Center systems. For more information about NASDAQ Data Products, please click here here.

NASDAQ is the largest U.S. electronic stock market. With approximately 3,300 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. It is home to companies that are leaders across all areas of business including technology, retail, communications, financial services,transportation, media and biotechnology. NASDAQ is the primary market for trading NASDAQ-listed stocks. For more information about NASDAQ, visit the NASDAQ Web site at http://www.nasdaq.com or the NASDAQ Newsroom(SM) at http://www.nasdaq.com/newsroom/