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New York, NY-based BGC Partners has announced the Resignation of Yevette Tierney as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
BGC Partners is a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets. Products include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC also provides a wide range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back-office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its BGC Trader and BGC Market Data brands, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to numerous financial instruments and markets. Through the Newmark Grubb Knight Frank brand, the Company offers a wide range of commercial real estate services including leasing and corporate advisory, investment sales and financial services, consulting, project and development management, and property and facilities management. BGC’s customers include many of the world’s largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers, and investment firms. BGC, BGC Trader, Grubb & Ellis, Grubb and Newmark are trademarks and service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and its affiliates. Knight Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank Limited Corp., used with permission
About the Person
Yevette Tierney is Chief Information Officer of BGC Partners, Inc. In this role she is responsible for product development and infrastructure management of BGC’s suite of broking technology products and systems. Prior to BGC Ms. Tierney was Chief Information Officer of eSpeed, having joined the company in February 2007. Upon the merger of eSpeed with BGC, in April 2008, she joined the management team of BGC Partners, Inc. Ms. Tierney previously held global product development, infrastructure, client service and operations management positions at Bloomberg, reporting directly to the CEO. She was responsible for software development of systems, applications, and the technology platform of Bloomberg television, radio, and multi-media services. Ms. Tierney received a B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering and a master’s in information systems from Stevens Institute of Technology.
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