According to a Reuters story, upon bringing Nasdaq OMX Chief Financial Officer Adena Friedman, 44, back as co-president in April, it came under the pretense that she will take over the reins from Chief Executive Bob Greifeld, 56. This could be possibly as early as 2015.?
While there is allegedly not a written timeline to make the change, Greifeld has a contract running until 2017. He has been Nasdaq’s CEO for the last 11 years.?
A source has said that upon leaving her role at Carlyle Group LP at its CFO, that it was done so with the “clear impression that she could become CEO within the next 12 to 18 months if she did not perform poorly.”
One source has gone so far as to say, “the CEO job is hers to lose.?
Friedman spent three years at Carlyle after 18 years with Nasdaq. Her return was official on Monday. She will be responsible for exchange’s global corporate, information services, and technology solutions business lines; this represents approximately 60 percent of Nasdaq’s total revenue, reported Reuters.
In 2013, this figure was $3.2 billion.
Nasdaq?has neither commented on this story or given Friedman media availability for an interview.