Nicholas J. Gendron is a managing director at Barclays Capital where he manages the global index business.  He was employed at Lehman Brothers since 1992 but joined Barclays Capital in 2008 upon the takeover of the broker dealer operations.  The responsibilities of his group include: development of new index products, monetization of the index business, the marketing and support of the Firm's Global Family of Fixed Income Indices, working with institutions on index replication strategies, and discussing portfolio management issues around the index with the investor community.  In his years at Lehman Brothers, he has also worked extensively marketing the portfolio management tools PC Product and POINT.

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr.Gendron worked at JP Morgan for five years in their systems development department.  He holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and a B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Boston College.  He also served on the Board of Directors of the Fixed Income Analysts Society (FIASI) from May 2004-May 2008 and is currently a member.