Andrew Nelson, CFA, has been appointed to Global Consumer Acquisition Corp.’s new board of directors. Nelson has been the chief financial officer and assistant secretary of Global Consumer Acquisition Corp. since its formation in 2007. Nelson has also served as managing director of finance & accounting at Hayground Cove Asset Management, LLC, sponsor of Global Consumer Acquisition Corp., since September 2005. Prior to joining Hayground Cove, Nelson worked at Context Capital Management, a hedge fund specializing in the convertible arbitrage strategy, as a senior operations consultant from September 2004 to August 2005. Nelson is enrolled in the Executive MBA Program at New York University.
(Reported in Reuters; December 29, 2008)

Stuart Gould, CFA, has joined Cowen Group as head of electronic trading. Prior, he was with Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior member of the portfolio trading desk. Prior to his role at Morgan Stanley, Gould managed Cantor Fitzgerald's program trading business where he was responsible for establishing a competitive portfolio trading product line including effective web based analytic tools and algorithmic trading strategies. Prior to Cantor Fitzgerald, he played an instrumental part in developing cutting edge program trading and analytic systems as head of the program trading desk at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette and later with Credit Suisse. Gould graduated with a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991.
(Reported by Cowen Group; January 5, 2009)