
	Lee Shavel is Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy at NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ). Mr. Shavel is responsible for all aspects of financial management at NASDAQ OMX including accounting, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, treasury, internal reporting, corporate operations and risk management. In addition, Mr. Shavel oversees Corporate Strategy, working with Mr. Greifeld and the EVPs to define NASDAQ&#39;s strategic direction, identify business and corporate opportunities and execute M&amp;A transactions. He has worked extensively with the senior management team at NASDAQ for the past seven years in his prior role as their investment banker on many strategic and financing transactions. Mr. Shavel joined NASDAQ OMX in May 2011 after 18 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was Americas Head of Financial Institutions Investment Banking and prior to that Global Chief Operating Officer and Head of Finance, Securities and Technology in the Financial Institutions Group. During that time, Mr. Shavel established and developed the Specialty Finance Group at Merrill Lynch, focusing on emerging high growth financial services companies. He worked intensively in the Securities and Exchange sector where he advised on many of the significant transactions in the sector including the IPOs of NASDAQ, Archipelago, Instinet, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and provided M&amp;A advice on the sale of ISE to Deutsche Borse, the sale of NYMEX to CME Group, the merger of Archipelago and REDIBook and the acquisitions of INET and BRUT by NASDAQ. He joined Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. in 1993 after four years at Citicorp in Financial Institutions. Mr. Shavel graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Finance and a B.A. in English.
