CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2017 /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 24, 2017.
The board of directors recommends the Class A and Class B
shareholders voting together elect the following individuals to the
board:
- Terrence A. Duffy, 58, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, CME Group
- Timothy S. Bitsberger, 57,
Former Managing Director, Official Institutions FIG Coverage Group
of BNP PNA
- Charles P. Carey, 63, Former
Vice Chairman, CME Group; Principal of Henning & Carey Trading
Company and HC Technologies, LLC
- Dennis H. Chookaszian, 73,
Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council;
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance
Companies
- Ana Dutra, 52, President and
Chief Executive Officer, The Executives' Club of Chicago
- Martin J. Gepsman, 64,
Independent Broker and Trader
- Larry G. Gerdes, 68, Chief
Executive Officer, Pursuant Health; General Partner of Sand Hill
Financial Company and Gerdes Huff Investments
- Daniel R. Glickman, 72,
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)
- Leo Melamed, 84, Chairman
Emeritus, CME Group; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Melamed
and Associates, Inc.
- James E. Oliff, 68, President,
FILO Corp.
- Alex J. Pollock, 74,
Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of Financial Systems
Studies, R Street Institute; former President and Chief Executive
Officer of Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
- John F. Sandner, 75, Retired
Chairman of the Board, CME Group; former Chairman, E*Trade Futures,
LLC
- Terry L. Savage, 72,
Nationally-Syndicated Financial Columnist and Author; President,
Terry Savage Productions, Ltd.
- William R. Shepard, 70,
President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
- Dennis A. Suskind, 74, 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:
- Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, 58,
Independent Trader; President, JMB Trading Corp.; Managing Member,
Celeritas Capital, LLC
- Gedon Hertshten, 64, Chairman, Hertshten Group
- William W. Hobert, 53, Managing
Director and Founder, WH Trading LLC
- Douglas M. Monieson, 51,
Independent Trader
- Howard J. Siegel, 60,
Independent Trader
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:
- Patrick W. Maloney, 55,
Independent Broker and Trader
- Ronald A. Pankau, 60,
Independent Trader; Owner, J.H. Best
and Sons Steel Fabricating Co.
- David J. Wescott, 59, 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 nominees for this position:
- Elizabeth A. Cook, 56,
Independent Broker and Trader
- Brian M. Duffy, 44, Independent
Trader
Additional information on the Class B director election process
for the 2017 annual meeting is available here.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. Through its exchanges, CME Group offers 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 products and
metals. CME Group provides electronic trading globally on its
CME Globex platform. The company also offers clearing
and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
and over-the-counter derivatives through its clearinghouses CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe. CME Group's products and
services ensure that businesses around the world can effectively
manage risk and achieve growth.
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