CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
today announced its slate of candidates for its board of directors
for election at the company's annual meeting to be held
Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
The board of directors recommends the Class A and Class B
shareholders voting together elect the following individuals to the
board:
- Terrence A. Duffy, 60, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, CME Group
- Timothy S. Bitsberger, 59,
Managing Director and Portfolio Specialist, The TCW Group
- Charles P. Carey, 65, Former
Vice Chairman, CME Group; Principal of Henning & Carey Trading
Company and HC Technologies, LLC
- Dennis H. Chookaszian, 75,
Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council;
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance
Companies
- Ana Dutra, 54, Former President
and Chief Executive Officer, The Executives' Club of Chicago
- Martin J. Gepsman, 66,
Independent Broker and Trader
- Larry G. Gerdes, 70, Chief
Executive Officer, Pursuant Health; General Partner of Gerdes Huff
Investments; Lead Director
- Daniel R. Glickman, 74,
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)
- Daniel G. Kaye, 64, CPA, Retired
Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
- Phyllis M. Lockett, 53, Chief
Executive Officer, LEAP Innovations
- Deborah J. Lucas, 60, Sloan
Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School
of Management; Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance
and Policy
- Alex J. Pollock, 76,
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Financial Markets, R Street Institute;
former President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Home Loan
Bank of Chicago
- Terry L. Savage, 74,
Nationally-Syndicated Financial Columnist and Author; President,
Terry Savage Productions, Ltd.
- William R. Shepard, 72,
President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
- Howard J. Siegel, 62,
Independent Trader
- Michael A. Spencer, 63, Special
Advisor, CME Group; Former Chief Executive Officer, NEX Group plc
- Dennis A. Suskind, 76, Retired
Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Three (3) directors will be elected by the Class B-1
shareholders. The Class B-1 Nominating Committee has selected
the following nominees for these positions:
- Steve A. Beitler, 62, Chief
Executive Officer, TJM Holdings, LLC
- Bradley S. Glass, 54,
Independent Trader
- Gedon Hertshten, 66, Founder and Owner GH Financials; Chairman
and Owner, Hertshten Group, Ltd.
- William W. Hobert, 55, Managing
Director and Founder, WH Trading LLC
- Patrick J. Mulchrone, 61,
Independent Trader
- Robert J. Tierney, 43, Managing
Member and Owner, Kore Trading LLC
Mr. Bernacchi, who currently serves as a Class B-1 director,
plans to retire at the end of his current term.
Two (2) directors will be elected by the Class B-2
shareholders. The Class B-2 Nominating Committee has selected
the following nominees for these positions:
- Yra G. Harris, 65, Independent
Trader
- Ronald A. Pankau, 62,
Independent Trader; Owner, J.H. Best
and Sons Steel Fabricating Co.
- David J. Wescott, 61, President,
The Wescott Group LTD; Managing Partner, DWG Futures LLC; Partner,
Nirvana Technology Solutions LLC
One (1) director will be elected by the Class B-3
shareholders. The Class B-3 Nominating Committee has selected
the following nominee for this position:
- Elizabeth A. Cook, 58,
Independent Broker and Trader
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima,
and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD,
TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. Dow
Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are
service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC,
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones
Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
CME-G
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