CHICAGO and NEW YORK, Sept.
30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it
has named Alice Hackett as Managing
Director, Global Client Development & Sales. With 25 years of
global financial services experience, Hackett will lead the
company's global sales force and will be responsible for the
development, execution and management of the company's global sales
strategy across all asset classes and client segments. She will be
based in New York and will report
to Bryan Durkin, Chief Operating
Officer and Managing Director, Products & Services.
"CME Group is committed to serving our global customer base, not
only through offering benchmark products, and industry-leading
technology and central counterparty clearing, but also by building
and reinforcing a strong sales team with deep knowledge of our
clients' existing businesses as well as an understanding of the
products and services that can best meet those needs," said Durkin.
"Ali's experience with a broad, global client base and her
proven focus on building customer relationships will help us
further improve the service we provide to our customers so that we
can deliver value in helping them grow their businesses and pursue
new trading opportunities."
Hackett, 53, joins CME Group following a nearly 20-year career
at Citigroup, where she most recently served as Managing Director,
Co-Head of Global Prime Finance. During her tenure at
Citigroup, she held positions of increasing responsibility
including Managing Director, Co-Head of Equity Prime Finance,
Managing Director, Global Head of Prime Finance Sales – Equity,
Fixed Income and Forex, and Managing Director, Global Head of
Futures. She also held sales roles at Shearson Lehman,
Drexel Burnham Lambert and Citibank
N.A. She began her career as a trader for Prudential Bache
Securities.
Hackett earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University. She is Series 3, 7, 24
and 63 registered.
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 and
its trading facilities in New York
and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the
largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which
provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded
contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions
through CME ClearPort®. These products and services
ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate
counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter
derivatives markets.
The Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME Group,
Globex, E-mini and CME ClearPort are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of Chicago. NYMEX and New York
Mercantile Exchange are 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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