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Mark Barmann, the chief information officer of Charles Schwab & Co. is stepping down and into retirement on Oct. 1. Taking up the reins at Schwab is Dawn Lepore, who had been a senior vice president in Schwab's information systems division. Most recently in charge of the firm's Schwab Architecture and Migration Strategy (SAMS) (IMD, Feb. 17, 1992), Lepore now becomes executive vice president and chief information officer.

Knight-Ridder Inc. has hired a new marketing director: Trish Srnak, working in the vendor's Chicago office. Srnak had held a similar post in Knight-Ridder Financial Publishing for two years and reports to marketing vice president Gerald Becker.

Reuters lost its product manager for the RT (Reuter Terminal) John Cislo. Cislo left for Data Broadcasting Corp., where he will be vice president for technology and marketing, reporting to DBC's dual chief executive officers: Allan Hirshfield and Allan Tessler.

Coming to Reuters America is Sarah Dunn, currently an international marketing manager for data feeds at Reuters in London. Dunn will likely make the move to New York early in 1994 and will have the title of vice president, with responsibility for marketing in the vendor's Information Management Systems group. Dunn will assume the tasks relinquished by Doug Jeffrey, who left Reuters earlier this year to be area manager for Swift Americas (IMD, May 24).

President of McGraw-Hill Inc.'s S&P Comstock unit, Grace Gaffney, has resigned, yielding her seat to an industry outsider, Daniel Connell. Connell joins S&P Comstock from British Airways' Bedford Associates Inc., where he was a vice president in its Advanced Systems Group. Gaffney will retain an advisory role at Comstock.

Andy Valenti has a new job. The former vice president of strategic initiatives for ADP has gone to Fidelity Brokerage Services Inc., to be vice president and division manager of Fidelity's financial information services.

Govpx Inc. has hired Mitchell Haviv as manager of product development and information technology. Haviv is a six-year veteran of Telekurs (North America) Inc., where he was most recently a product specialist for Telekurs' Ticker.