Alfred Berkeley

Alfred R. Berkeley is an American businessman who served as President and later Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., from June 1996 until August 2003. Before Nasdaq, Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972. Berkeley earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Muriel VanDusen Berkeley and they are the parents of three daughters.

Berkeley is Chairman of the Board of Pipeline Financial Group, Inc. the parent of Pipeline Trading Systems, LLC, a block trading system for equities. Berkeley is a trustee of the Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, a post to which President George W. Bush appointed him. He is a Director of the The World Economic Forum USA and Chairman of XBRL US, a non-profit established to develop GAAP taxonomies to be used by public companies to report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He is a Director of ACI Worldwide, Inc. . He was a trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute was a trustee of the Nature Conservancy. Berkeley was a member of the Board of Director of WebEx Communication, Inc. and Kintera, Inc.

Berkeley was born in 1944.

External links

* [http://www.msri.org/about/governance/trustees/TrusteesInfo/400000103/show_trustees Berkeley biography at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute]
* [http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2000/19/commencement.html Berkeley Confesses to Placing Cow on the Rotunda]