CHICAGO, Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group today
announced its slate of candidates for its board of directors for
election at the company's annual meeting to be held Wednesday, May 20, 2015.
The board of directors recommends the Class A and Class B
shareholders voting together elect the following nineteen
individuals to the board:
- Terrence A. Duffy, 56, Executive
Chairman and President, CME Group
- Phupinder S. Gill, 54, Chief
Executive Officer, CME Group
- Timothy S. Bitsberger, 55,
Managing Director, Official Institutions FIG Coverage Group of BNP
PNA
- Charles P. Carey, 61, Former
Vice Chairman, CME Group; Principal of Henning & Carey Trading
Company and Henning-Carey Proprietary Trading LLC
- Dennis H. Chookaszian, 71,
Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council;
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance
Companies
- Ana Dutra, 50, President and
Chief Executive Officer, The Executives' Club of Chicago
- Martin J. Gepsman, 62,
Independent Broker and Trader
- Larry G. Gerdes, 66, Chief
Executive Officer, SoloHealth; General Partner of Sand Hill
Financial Company and Gerdes Huff Investments
- Daniel R. Glickman, 70,
Executive Director, Aspen
Institute's Congressional Program; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan
Policy Center, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001); Member of
Congress, Kansas (1977-1995)
- J. Dennis Hastert, 73, Former
Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Leo Melamed, 82, Chairman
Emeritus, CME Group; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Melamed
and Associates, Inc.
- William P. Miller II, 59, CFA,
Head of Asset Allocation, Sanabil, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- James E. Oliff, 66, President,
FILO Corp.
- Edemir Pinto, 61, Chief
Executive Officer, BM&FBOVESPA
- Alex J. Pollock, 72, Resident
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; former President and Chief
Executive Officer of Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
- John F. Sandner, 73, Retired
Chairman of the Board, CME Group; former Chairman, E*Trade Futures,
LLC
- Terry L. Savage, 70, Financial
Journalist and Author, President, Terry Savage Productions,
Ltd.
- William R. Shepard, 68,
President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
- Dennis A. Suskind, 72, Retired
Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Three (3) directors will be elected by the holders of the Class
B-1 shares. The Class B-1 Nominating Committee has selected
the following nominees for these positions:
- Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, 56,
Independent Trader; President, JMB Trading Corp.; Managing Member,
Celeritas Capital, LLC
- William W. Hobert, 51, Managing
Director, WH Trading LLC
- Bruce F. Johnson, 72,
Independent Trader
- Jeremy J. Perlow, 47,
Independent Trader
- Howard J. Siegel, 58,
Independent Trader
Two (2) directors will be elected by the holders of the Class
B-2 shares. The Class B-2 Nominating Committee has selected
the following nominees for these positions:
- Patrick W. Maloney, 53,
Independent Floor Broker
- Ronald A. Pankau, 58,
Independent Trader; Owner, J.H. Best
and Sons Steel Fabricating Co.
- David J. Wescott, 57, President,
Dowd Wescott Group
- James J. Zellinger, 69, Senior
Vice President, Wedbush Securities Inc.
One (1) director will be elected by the holders of the Class B-3
shares. The Class B-3 Nominating Committee has selected the
following nominees for this position:
- Elizabeth A. Cook, 54,
Independent Floor Broker
- Thomas J. Esposito, 54,
Independent Floor Trader
Steven E. Wollack, our current
Class B-3 director, plans to petition to be included as a nominee
in accordance with CME Group's bylaws.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together
through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform, its trading
facilities in New York and
Chicago, and through its
London-based CME Europe
derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME,
Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and
ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. Further information about CME Group (NASDAQ:
CME) and its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.
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