ConvergEx Group's Bea Ordonez Wins Industry Trailblazer Award: Traders Magazine's Wall Street Women 2014

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, today announced that Bea Ordonez, Chief Operations Officer, ConvergEx Execution Solutions and G-Trade Services, has been named an "Industry Trailblazer" at Traders Magazine's 2014 Wall Street Women awards.

Chosen by the editors of Traders Magazine, the awards annually recognize the most impressive women in the fields of trading, investment and portfolio management in the U.S. capital markets. The Industry Trailblazer award is presented to high-performing Wall Street women who broke the gender barrier while advancing their careers in financial markets, creating the opportunity for other women to become traders, managers and successful financial professionals.

"Bea is truly deserving of this prestigious recognition as an industry trailblazer," said Eric Noll, ConvergEx Group president and CEO. "As one of the only women running global operations for a Wall Street brokerage, she is a dynamic force at ConvergEx and in the industry. Having built a successful global electronic business from the ground up, she anticipates the changing landscape and devises and implements strategies to meet the future requirements of our global client base."

In addition to her role as chief operations officer, Bea serves on ConvergEx's executive committee and is critical to developing strategy for the firm.

About Bea Ordonez
Bea Ordonez is the Chief Operations Officer for ConvergEx Execution Solutions and G-Trade Services, two of ConvergEx Group's broker-dealer entities. Ms. Ordonez oversees all U.S. and non-U.S. operational matters for the execution, clearing and intermediary businesses of ConvergEx Group. She manages a team of over 80 professionals located in Florida and New York.

Ms. Ordonez joined G-Trade as its Chief Financial Officer in 1999, taking on the role of Chief Operations Officer and Managing Director in 2006.

Prior to this, Ms. Ordonez worked at Marsh & McLennan, a premier global consulting firm. She also previously worked in London within the mergers and acquisitions department of Price Waterhouse and within the corporate tax department of Arthur Andersen.

About ConvergEx Group
ConvergEx Group is a leading provider of global brokerage and trading-related services. Its companies provide products and services in the following areas: global execution and clearing, commission management, independent research, commission recapture, options technologies, prime services and outsourced connectivity. ConvergEx Group companies do not engage in market making or investment banking, but may operate in a riskless principal and/or net trading capacity as well as in an agency capacity. In connection with certain ETF transactions requested by clients, ConvergEx Execution Solutions may act as a principal or engage in hedging strategies in connection with such transactions.

In the U.S., ConvergEx Group is comprised of ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC), of which ConvergEx Prime Services is a division; LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); G-Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); ConvergEx Depositary, Inc., and ConvergEx Solutions LLC, of which ConnEx, Jaywalk and LDB are divisions. ConvergEx Group, LLC is a subsidiary of ConvergEx Holdings, LLC. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

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