Bridge Names Snow as EVP and General Counsel

New York (PROTEXT) - Bridge Information Systems, the largestprovider of financial news and information in North America andfastest growing in the world, is pleased to announce theappointment of Zachary Snow as Executive Vice President andGeneral Counsel, a newly created position. Mr. Snow will reportto Tom Wendel, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.Mr. Wendel said, "Mr. Snow brings extraordinary talents and broadexperience to our management team, helping to support thecontinued growth and success of our company." Mr. Snow joins BRIDGE after nineteen years in the legaldepartments of Salomon Brothers and its successor, Salomon SmithBarney, including nine years as a managing director and fouryears as head of the U.S. legal department of Salomon Brothers.He served as a member of the firm's Business Practices Committee,Credit Policy Committee, Screening Committee for underwritingcommitments and Management Committee for Latin America. Mr. Snow is the Chairman of the Fixed Income Committee of theNational Association of Securities Dealers, and a member of itsspecial committee on corporate bond price transparency. He haspreviously served as Chairman of the OTC Derivatives Committee ofthe Securities Industry Association, as a director and member ofthe Executive Committee of the Board of the International Swapsand Derivatives Association, as an alternate member of theDerivatives Policy Group, and as a member of the Committee onProfessional Responsibility of the Association of the Bar of theCity of New York. He has been a frequent speaker at conferencessponsored by the SIA, ISDA, the Bond Market Association and thePracticing Law Institute. He is Chairman of the Board of CorlearsSchool and Chairman Emeritus of the Battery Dance Company. Mr. Snow began his career with the law firm of Cleary,Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. He is a graduate ofPrinceton University (with Highest Honors) and the Harvard LawSchool (with Honors). Bridge Information Systems, Inc., together with its principaloperating units, Bridge Information Systems, BridgeNews, BridgeTrading, and its subsidiary Telerate -- is the largest providerof financial information and related services in North America --and fastest growing -- in the world. Together with SAVVIS theInternet Service Provider that BRIDGE recently acquired, BRIDGEis also one of the world's largest providers of ATM -- managed IPnetworks, with more than 150 Cascade ATM switches throughout themajor cities in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim and theAmericas. BRIDGE information products include a wide range ofworkstations, market data feeds and web-browser-basedapplications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depthnews, powerful analytic tools and trading room integrationsystems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 500+ BRIDGEjournalists in more than 100 locations that break news thataffect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer ofthe Nightly Business Report and is a leading provider offinancial news and information to media companies worldwide. Leveraging the BRIDGE and SAVVIS high speed, broadbandcommunications network, and using proprietary as well as standardprotocols such as FIX, BRIDGE also provides institutions with aquick and transparent means to execute trades, route orders,investigate order activity, or advertise trades, and offersaccess to one of the industry's largest broker-neutral networksfor secure client-to-client connectivity. BRIDGE, with 4500+ employees worldwide, and over a quarter ofa million users in over 60 countries, is headquartered in NewYork City with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St.Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East,Africa, and the Pacific Rim. For more information visit theBRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. ots Original TextService: Bridge Information Systems Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Deanna Masella of BridgeInformation Systems, (USA) 212-372-7346 or dmasella@bridge.comWeb site: http://www.bridge.com

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