Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced the appointment of 13 new group senior managing directors effective 1 April 2011.

Nomura introduced the group SMD position in November 2009 for key senior managers responsible for group-wide operations in order to further strengthen the company's globally integrated leadership team.

Current group SMDs include executive managing directors and senior managing directors of Nomura Holdings and Nomura Securities as well as other senior managers appointed by the company's executive management board. With the new appointments, Nomura will have a total of 105 group SMDs as of 1 April 2011.

Newly Appointed Group SMDs

Norikazu Akedo - Head of Trading, Equities Japan
Garth Barker-Goldie - Global Head of Wholesale Operations
James DeNaut - Investment Banking, Americas
Takuya Furuya - Chairman, Middle East and Africa
Masaru Konno - Executive Vice President of Nomura Services India
Jonathan Lewis - Wholesale CFO
Eiji Miura - Group Corporate Communications
Paul Norris - Head of Global Equity Research
Piero Novelli - Joint Head of Global M&A
Samuel Ruiz - Joint Head of Equities, EMEA
Benoit Savoret - Joint Head of Global Equities
Patrick Schmitz - Morkramer - Head of Investment Banking, AEJ
Chie Toriumi - CEO/COO Office