GFI Group Inc.

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James A. Peers, Chief Financial Officer, joined our Company in August 2002. Prior to joining our Company, Mr. Peers was a Senior Vice President at Bank One in Chicago from 1999 to 2001 where he held various positions, including Corporate Controller. He also was the CFO for Rabobank International in New York and a Senior Vice President Corporate Development for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in New York. Mr. Peers is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Accountant and was a partner at Ernst & Young where he spent 18 years working in the Toronto and Chicago offices mainly with financial institutional clients. J. Christopher Giancarlo, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, joined our Company in April 2001 following our acquisition of Fenics, where he structured strategic alliances with major investment banks. Prior to joining Fenics in 2000, Mr. Giancarlo was a corporate partner in the New York law firm of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP from 1997 to 2000.

Mr. Levi joined the company in 1993 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2006. Prior to being appointed Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Levi served as Managing Director – Europe from January 2004. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Levi was the Director of Fixed Income at Garban PLC.

Mr. Giancarlo is responsible for executing strategic transactions and directing corporate communications. Mr. Giancarlo joined GFI in 2001 as part of the acquisition of Fenics, where he structured strategic alliances with major investment banks. Prior to Fenics, Mr. Giancarlo was a Corporate Partner in the New York law firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP.

As GFI's Managing Director, London, Mr.Martin works alongside Mr. Swain in the running of the London brokerage business. Mr. Martin has held a number of roles at GFI, including the running of the FX options business, moving later into GFI's e-Commerce division as a product manager in London, then New York. He returned to London in 2004 to set up GFI's credit index desk and more recently was responsible for running GFI's structured credit business. Before he joined GFI, Mr. Martin traded currency options and US government securities at Bank of New York.

Mr. Higgins joined GFI in July 2008. He is a former Co-head of Global Credit Trading at Citigroup in New York where he worked for 15 years. Mr. Higgins holds a BA in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Julian Swain, Managing Director, GFI London, 40, has served as GFI's Managing Director Europe since July 2006. In that position, Mr. Swain assisted in the management of GFI's day-to-day operations in Europe. Mr. Swain joined GFI in 2001 as head of GFI's European credit products group and oversaw the roll-out of GFI's CreditMatch electronic trading platform. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Swain was with ICAP PLC where he managed various credit products teams.

Mr. Souffir joined GFI at the end of 2005 as Managing Director - International Futures and Equities. In this role he assisted in establishing GFI’s Paris operations. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Refco’s Paris office. Before working at Refco, Mr. Souffir was a manager of various equities, equity derivatives and financial futures products at IFF, a division of AXA.

Mr. Cosgrove became Head of Commodities & Energy Product Brokerage, North America for GFI in July 2008. Mr. Cosgrove manages all of GFI's commodities & energy business in North America, including its Amerex and StarSupply divisions. He started his career with Amerex in 1981 as a trainee with the firm's New Jersey office and quickly excelled as a broker of North American and international crude oil. In 1986, Mr. Cosgrove became a partner in the firm and Managing Director of Amerex's European operations. In 1989, Mr. Cosgrove founded Amerex Futures Limited, a member of the London Clearing House and International Petroleum Exchange. In 2003, Mr. Cosgrove was named Chief Executive Officer of the Amerex North American Companies. In 2004, Mr. Cosgrove was named in the Energy Risk Hall of Fame.

Mr. Brown joined GFI in November 2003. Prior to this, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director of Technolia LLC, a telecom consulting company from 1998 until 2000. Mr. Brown’s experience in the interdealer brokerage industry includes positions as Managing Director, North America of Tullett & Tokyo between 1990 and 1996 and President of Harlow Meyer Savage from 1986 and 1989. Mr. Brown is also a director of Jersey Partners, the largest shareholder of GFI. In addition, Mr. Brown serves as a director of the Financial Markets Association and was formerly a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Steering Committee.

Mr. Tatham is responsible for the day-to-day operations of GFI’s Asian brokerage businesses. He joined GFI in 2005 and recently headed GFI’s interest rate swaps business in New York. Mr. Tatham has over 20 years’ experience in interdealer broking, working in all the world’s major financial centres. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Tatham worked at Harlow and Tullett Prebon, where he brokered and managed fixed income, equity derivatives, credit derivatives and FX derivative products and businesses.

Ms. Griffiths joined GFI in 2000. Previously, Ms. Griffiths was Director of Human Resources, Europe for Garban (now ICAP). Ms. Griffiths has also worked for NatWest Group (now Royal Bank of Scotland) in both human resources and corporate roles. Ms. Griffiths is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and holds a certificate in Employment Law from Middlesex University Business School.

Mr. Cancro joined GFI in 2008 from Mastec, Inc. where he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller. He has over 18 years' experience in finance, accounting and operations in the U.S. and abroad and previously served as Chief Financial Officer of EuroTel, a joint venture between Verizon, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom based in Europe, and steered that company through its debt IPO and SEC registration. Mr. Cancro also previously headed Verizon's Capital Markets Strategy team, and held roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. Mr. Cancro holds a BSc in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a CFA Charter.

Mr. Dobner joined GFI in 2001. He oversees business analysis, quality assurance and development of GFI’s electronic trading platforms. During his time at GFI, Mr. Dobner has helped develop CreditMatch, FENICS DealFX, GFI FENICS and most recently managed the development of GFI’s energy trading platform, EnergyMatch®. Prior to joining GFI, Mr Dobner developed real-time stock quote software at NewsAlert.

Mr. Brunt joined GFI from Thomson Financial Asia in 2004 where he was Commercial Director, South East Asia and Head of Major Accounts, Asia Pacific. Mr. Brunt oversees GFI's global FENICS FX business and market data sales. He holds a BA in Theology and Anthropology from Durham University.

Geoffrey Kalish, Lead Non-Executive Director, joined our Board in April 2000. Mr. Kalish is a founder and Senior Principal of Aquiline Capital Partners LLC and has held such position since August 2005. Mr. Kalish was also a founding partner of Venturion Capital LLC and has been a managing director at Venturion since May 1998. Both Aquiline and Venturion are private equity firms that invest exclusively in financial services companies around the world. Prior to founding Venturion, Mr. Kalish worked for Smith Barney, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Kidder Peabody and Westpac Bank in a variety of proprietary trading and corporate finance positions. Mr. Kalish has previously served as a director of numerous companies in the United States and Europe.

Mr. Pintoff joined GFI in April 2000. Prior to assuming the duties of General Counsel in April 2002, Mr.Pintoff was GFI's Associate General Counsel. Before joining GFI he was an associate with the law firm of Dewey Ballantine LLP from 1996 to 2000.