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DOUGLAS SHULMAN is President of Markets, Services and Information and is a member of the Office of the Chairman of NASD. He has broad-based responsibility for operations and services at NASD. He oversees NASD's interests and relationship with The Nasdaq Stock Market and is responsible for NASD's market transparency facilities including OTC Equities and TRACE, as well as other fixed income activities. He is also responsible for managing NASD's technology and registration (CRD and IARD) areas and working with the broker/dealer community to strengthen firms' internal compliance. Mr. Shulman also oversees NASD's corporate development activities.

Mr. Shulman has spent his career in both the public and private sectors. Before joining NASD, Mr. Shulman co-founded and was a partner of FoundryOne, a company focused on building and spinning off technology-focused start-ups within major corporations. Mr. Shulman supervised FoundryOne's investment and advisory services. Previously, Mr. Shulman was a private equity investor at Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd., the holding company and general partner of several private investment funds. In this capacity he managed both financial and legal aspects of investments and transactions. Mr. Shulman also worked for AT Kearney consulting. Mr. Shulman's public sector work includes serving as Chief of Staff for the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a bi-partisan commission established to conduct a major restructuring of the IRS. The Commission's work was the foundation for the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act passed in July 1998.

Mr. Shulman holds a BA from Williams College, an MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a JD (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center.