UNX Hires Ruth Colagiuri to Head Global Product Management

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- UNX LLC (www.unx.com), a leading provider of innovative trading technology solutions, welcomes Ruth Colagiuri as Managing Director, Head of Product Management.  She is based in New York and reports to UNX CEO Thomas Kim.

Ms. Colagiuri will oversee global product management of the UNX Catalyst® Execution Management System (EMS), an open-architecture electronic trading solution.  In this role, she is charged with directing the continued growth of UNX's electronic trading capabilities across asset classes to a broad range of financial market participants.  A strong focus will be on developing, marketing and delivering client-facing electronic trading technology to both the buy and sell sides.

Colagiuri also will oversee the integration of content and solutions from broker-dealers and third-party vendors into the Catalyst Portal distribution hub via the UNX Software Development Kit (SDK).  

Previously the head of Americas Execution products for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Colagiuri was responsible for the full suite of execution products including Algorithms, Smart Routing, Crossing and DMA for Equity, Options and Futures.  Having joined Merrill Lynch in 2001, she was an integral part of the team that built Merrill's Electronic Trading business from the ground up.

"Ruth has been at the forefront of delivering meaningful trading solutions as well as growing a highly-successful electronic trading franchise, so she brings both singular expertise and seasoned judgment to the UNX management team," states CEO Thomas Kim.  "As UNX continues to expand our global partnership and distribution network and build out multi-asset class offerings, Ruth's strategic direction will be instrumental in our success."

"I am excited to join UNX at this critical time of global expansion," states Ms. Colagiuri.  "I'm looking forward to working with UNX's clients and partners to deliver solutions that offer both the buy and sell sides a better way to trade electronically and streamline workflow," she adds.

About UNX LLC

Founded in 1999, UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that provides advanced electronic trading technology for the institutional trading community through its open-architecture platform Catalyst®. UNX has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

About Catalyst

Catalyst is an electronic trading portal and broker-neutral execution management system (EMS) for single stock and portfolio trading for institutional clients.  Built on open/modular architecture using the latest technology, Catalyst allows buy-side institutions and sell-side broker-dealers to create customized solutions using the UNX Software Development Kit (SDK).  An independent offering, Catalyst streamlines multi-broker trading workflow and serves as an efficient delivery mechanism for broker-dealers and third-party vendors to distribute and update their offerings to clients.

©2010 UNX LLC Member FINRA/SIPC. All rights reserved.  UNX and Catalyst are registered trademarks of UNX LLC.

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