Southwest Securities Appoints Maryrose Dombrowski, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Clearing Services

    DALLAS, Aug. 18 /EMWNews/ -- Southwest Securities has added a senior

vice president and head of marketing, Maryrose Dombrowski, to its Clearing

Services division. Dombrowski brings extensive experience in sales and

marketing in the financial services industry to Southwest Securities, a

subsidiary of SWS Group (NYSE: SWS).



    "Maryrose's knowledge of our business and her expertise in marketing,

sales and relationship management will help us to drive our growth

efforts," Timothy J. Hamick, executive vice president of SWS Group and head

of Clearing Services, said.



    Dombrowski is the former director of marketing for Broadcort, a

division of Merrill Lynch. She has 25 years of experience in financial

services and has held senior positions in sales, marketing and relationship

management. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, she developed and oversaw the

cross-marketing strategy for execution, clearing, settlement and financing

services for equities, options, futures and foreign exchange markets at ABN

AMRO. She also spent several years in the futures industry in an

institutional sales role working with both U.S. and international clients.



    Dombrowski earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration at The

University of Chicago.



    Southwest Securities is a member of SWS Group Inc., a Dallas-based

holding company offering a broad range of investment and financial services

through its subsidiaries. Clearing Services is one of SWS Group's four

major business segments, which also include retail brokerage, institutional

brokerage and banking. Subsidiaries of the company include Southwest

Securities Inc., M. L. Stern, Southwest Securities, FSB, SWS Financial

Services, Inc. and Southwest Insurance Agency. The company's common stock

is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWS.