Tom Joyce and Karl Kilb Join Airex, Inc. Board of Advisors

NEW YORK, April 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Airex, Inc. is proud to announce two major additions to its Board of Advisors: Tom Joyce, founder and former Chairman and CEO of Knight Capital, and Executive Chairman of electronic market maker Arxis Capital; and Karl Kilb, President & CEO of N2 Global Solutions, Inc. and former General Counsel for Bloomberg LP. Airex recently launched the public beta of the AIREX Market, the first independent, online marketplace for financially actionable apps, information, and reports ("Financial AIR™").  

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Joyce, who is also an investor in Airex, has more than three decades of experience in electronic trading and financial technology. Joyce's career spanned senior roles at a number of firms, including at Merrill Lynch, where he was a managing director, early stage social network Sandboxx, where he is vice chairman, and financial trading and technology company Clearpool Group, where he is a senior advisor.

"I have spent most of my career working with disruptive technologies that were dramatically changing financial markets," said Joyce. "Airex has that potential, and is at the right place, at the right time, to effect a major change in the way that financial apps, information, and reports are going to be bought and consumed by institutional, professional, and retail investors alike."

Kilb joined N2 Global Solutions, Inc. in June, 2014 after 22 years at Bloomberg LP, including more than 15 years as General Counsel. He built and managed a global legal and compliance department that supported all aspects of Bloomberg's businesses, including data, news, software, and electronic trading. Kilb was a founding principal of Bloomberg Tradebook LLC, the company's electronic agency brokerage firm, and was also Bloomberg's Risk Manager, overseeing all insurance coverage.  Prior to becoming a lawyer in 1995, he was a broadcast journalist with CNBC, Financial News Network, 1010 WINS, and Bloomberg.

"Airex is building a unique platform with the potential to reshape how information and applications are distributed and consumed, including the opportunity for investors to easily access what they need," said Kilb. "I am excited to help create another innovative content distribution channel from its early stages."

Joyce and Kilb join an advisory board that includes several other top names in technology, financial services, media, and entrepreneurship:

• John Chu, Chairman and CEO, McGraw Companies: Chu's has more than 15 years of experience in financial services, in a career that spans management consulting, to insurance. Chu was CFO of Personal Lines, and later CIO at The Hartford. More recently, Chu worked in the Private Equity industry as an Operating Partner for Golden Gate Capital and Altamont Capital Partners. Chu also sits on the board of FirstBest Systems and is the Chairman of Wedbush Securities.
• John Philip Coghlan, President at HDS Mercury: Coghlan was formerly the President and CEO of Visa USA, where he led its transformation from a member-owned association into a for-profit company, culminating in the largest IPO in US history. Prior to Visa, Coghlan was Vice Chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation. During his 18-year tenure Coghlan led each of Schwab's client-facing businesses, and started Schwab's businesses serving independent investment advisors and corporate retirement plans. Prior to Schwab, Coghlan co-founded San Francisco Grocery Express, a home delivery service that he ran successfully for 5 years. Coghlan is now President of HDS, a large-scale startup that partners with category and specialty retailers to create a branded "mall in the cloud" that offers same-day delivery.
• Jim Long, Board Member at POPS Worldwide: Long has many years of experience and success in building businesses in the high technology industry, as well as in developing new technologies and patents for the Internet and PC environments. He has been a co-founder or CEO in such companies as Veritas, Ruckus Wireless, Starlight Networks ("Streaming" video pioneer sold to Picturetel), Linkware (sold to Ungermann-Bass) and RioPort (Digital Music pioneer merged with Ecast). Long has been an angel investor or adviser or part-time executive to others such as Chegg, TiMetra (sold to Alcatel), Applied Microcircuits, and Jibe Networks (sold to Citrix). Recently he has been involved with Aurora Algae (Algae for Nutrition & Green Diesel), CrowdSpot (Big Data Crowd Sourcing), Turbine BioFuels (algae fuels), Pops Worldwide (Vietnamese gaming company), PlantSense (Home Gardening technology sold to Parrot), and AeroSpike (Next Gen Flat Database). Previously, Long worked for Adler Ventures, Hewlett Packard (invented world's first presentation graphics program) and BCG.

"We are very fortunate to have such an amazing team of advisors who understand the market opportunity and potential of Airex, and also are well positioned to help us reach our goals," said Airex CEO Stephen Kuhn. "Tom Joyce's experience in financial technology makes him a excellent addition to our team as an investor and advisor. Karl Kilb is a rare hybrid who has a deep understanding of the media, data and technology spaces, along with legal, compliance, and trading. Together, they represent a powerful complement to an advisory group that already includes some heavy hitters in each of the industries where Airex looks to leave its mark."

For more information on the Airex advisory group, go to https://www.airexmarket.com/about.

Contact:

Airex, Inc.
David Zweifler
Senior Director of Marketing and Media Relations
Tel: 646-661-2020 ext. 114
Email: [email protected]

About AIREX™ Market

The AIREX™ Market from Airex, Inc. is the only independent online marketplace for everyone to search, find, purchase, and consume financially actionable apps, information, and reports (Financial AIR™) from a large and growing list of vendors globally. The AIREX Market empowers vendors to generate new revenues, monetize existing products, and generate higher margins in new market segments that they cannot cost-effectively reach today. AIREX Market customers get financial information that they don't have access to today, couldn't afford, or didn't even know existed – instantly and conveniently, with no salespeople, no contracts to negotiate, and no attorneys to pay for. Learn more at www.airexmarket.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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