Dow Jones Indexes Appoints Jamie Farmer to Executive Director

Expands Top Executive Team to Drive Global Growth


NEW YORK, April 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, expanded its top executive team by elevating Jamie Farmer, former senior director global index operations and head of exchange relationships, to executive director. This role was created to further harmonize Dow Jones Indexes' global business development and to ensure coordination of global business opportunities that result from the recent acquisition of 90% of Dow Jones Indexes by the CME Group.

In addition to his existing operational and client activities, Mr. Farmer, 42, will assume responsibility for all global sales and business development activities at Dow Jones Indexes. He will be responsible for developing and executing a global sales strategy that is aligned with Dow Jones Indexes' regional, client, partner and parent objectives.

"Combining our sales, business development and operations under Jamie will improve the already high standards of our client service and support," said Michael A. Petronella, president designate, Dow Jones Indexes. "Jamie has been instrumental in building a global team of professionals that are dedicated to meeting the support needs of our index licensees and custom calculation clients in addition to providing quality maintenance of our index families. His expanded role will accelerate the execution of our global strategy."

Mr. Farmer joined Dow Jones Indexes in 2006. Prior to his current role, Mr. Farmer was a senior associate of strategic relationships at Susquehanna International Group, LLP, a global institutional sales, research and market-making firm. Mr. Farmer began his career as vice president of marketing at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) in 1991.

Mr. Farmer holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is an NASD registered representative (Series 7 and 24).  

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About Dow Jones Indexes

Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of CME Group Index Services LLC (http://www.cmegroup.com), a joint venture company which is owned 90% by CME Group and 10% by Dow Jones & Company.

"Dow Jones®", "Dow Jones Indexes", and all other index names listed above are service marks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC ("Dow Jones"), and have been licensed for use by CME Group Index Services LLC ("CME Indexes").

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