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Nomura Securities' John Comerford Joins Vhayu Technologies' Advisory Board.
Vhayu Press Release 05/18/2004
VhaYu Technologies Corp., the only firm in the world delivering
a real-time and historical tick-data capture, storage, analysis and execution engine, today
announced that John Comerford, managing director and head of quantitative trading and
research at Nomura Securities International, the U.S. broker/dealer subsidiary for Nomura
Holding America, Inc., part of The Nomura Group (NYSE: NMR; TSE: 8604), has joined VhaYu’s
Advisory Board. His appointment, made at a February meeting of the Board of Directors, is
effective immediately.

"We are very pleased to have someone with John’s equity trading and quantitative research
expertise joining our Advisory Board," said Tejpal Chadha, CTO and co-founder of VhaYu. "Given
his extensive knowledge and experience, he will be an invaluable source as we continue to
expand the scope of our products and solutions.”

Mr. Comerford is responsible for quantitative research and automated trading for Nomura's U.S.
Equity Sales and Trading group.

Commented Mr. Comerford, “What excites me about being affiliated with VhaYu is this is a
company driven by an understanding of the marketplace, its customers and their needs, and the
value of their technology-driven business solutions, rather than just their technology for the sake
of technology per se."

Mr. Comerford joined Nomura from Charles Schwab Capital Markets, where he was head of
quantitative trading and research for Schwab's Program Trading group. Prior to Schwab, he
spent nine years as a portfolio manager at Symphony Asset Management, where he managed
market neutral hedge funds, developed new fund strategies and built and ran a U.S. trading desk.
He started his career at NISA Investment Advisors, where he was integral in researching and
managing the firm's Efficient Index and where he developed multi-factor expected return models.

VhaYu was founded in 1998 by Tejpal Chadha and Ken Williams. Mr. Chadha held key
management roles at Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and was one of the lead architects for the
Pentium™ and Merced™ chips. Mr. Williams has founded several companies and has worked for
Intel, General Magic and Taligent. A privately held company, VhaYu is backed by top venture
capitalists and technology investors including Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), Garage.com and, in
an April 2003 $6.5 million Series B round of funding, Menlo Ventures.

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