CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group today
announced its slate of candidates for election to serve on the
company's Board of Directors. CME Group shareholders will
vote for directors at the company's annual meeting to be held
Wednesday, June 8, 2011.
The Class A and Class B shareholders voting together will elect
eight candidates to the Board. Additionally, the Class B-1
and Class B-2 shareholders will each elect a candidate to the
Board. The candidates will be elected to a three-year
term.
The following candidates will be elected by the Class A and
Class B shareholders voting together:
- Craig S. Donohue, 49, Chief
Executive Officer
- Timothy S. Bitsberger, 51,
Managing Director, Official Institutions FIG Coverage Group of BNP
PNA and current director
- Jackie M. Clegg, 48, Managing
Partner, Clegg International Consultants, LLC and current
director
- James A. Donaldson, 66,
Independent Trader and current director
- J. Dennis Hastert, 69, Retired
Speaker of the House of Representatives and current director
- William P. Miller II, 55,
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Financial Markets
International, Inc. and current director
- Terry L. Savage, 66, Financial
Journalist and Author, President, Terry Savage Productions, Ltd.
and current director
- Christopher Stewart, 53, Chief
Executive Officer, Gelber Group, LLC
and current director
One candidate from each of the following Class B-1 and Class B-2
nominees will be elected to the Board.
Nominees for Class B-1 director are:
- Bruce F. Johnson, 68,
Independent Trader, Packers Trading Company, Inc. and current
director
- Aryeh (Leon) C. Shender, 56,
Retired Trader
Nominees for Class B-2 director are:
- Patrick B. Lynch, 45,
Independent Floor Trader and current
director
- Ronald A. Pankau, 54,
Independent Floor Trader
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.
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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.
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owners. Further information about CME Group (Nasdaq: CME) and
its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.
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