NASDAQ chairman speaks at 2003 IU Business Conference

On March 5, 2003, Harwick "Wick" Simmons, chairman and CEO of The NASDAQ Stock Market Inc., was one of the featured speakers at the 57th annual conference of IU's Kelley School of Business. The theme for the conference was "Who Do You Trust? The Crisis in Corporate Governance," and Simmons discussed the effects of the continuing corporate governance crisis on the markets, investor confidence and the investment banking/financial services community. Simmons joined The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. in February 2001 as its CEO and was elected chairman on Sept. 26, 2001. Prior to joining NASDAQ, Simmons served as president and CEO of Prudential Securities Inc., the investment and brokerage firm. Prior to joining Prudential Securities in 1991, Simmons was president of the Private Client Group at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. In this role, he oversaw the firm's retail organization, which consisted of 10,500 financial consultants in 475 branches, as well as the Marketing and Sales and Financial Services divisions.