Executive Changes

Tony Petrillo has been appointed director of technical services for TOWER Technology, a provider of infrastructure software for high-volume document and content processing. In this position, he will oversee TOWER's growing customer service organization at the company's worldwide headquarters in Boston. Petrillo has vast experience in customer support management within the computer hardware and software industries.

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BrokerTec Clearing Company, the clearing affiliate of BrokerTec Futures Exchange, announced today the appointment of Frank Perrone from Deutsche Bank Futures as chairman and Ronald Filler from Lehman Brothers as vice chairman. Perrone has over 20 years of experience in the futures industry and is currently director of operations at Deutsche Bank Futures, where he is responsible for North American futures and options operations. He has been with Deutsche Bank Futures since 1998.Filler is senior vice president and director of Institutional Futures Administration at Lehman Brothers and is the supervisor of the Futures Client Services Group, which deals directly with all of the firm's institutional futures clients. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1993, he was a partner and member of the Executive Committee of Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz.