CHICAGO, Feb. 15, 2012 /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, May 23, 2012.
The Class A and Class B shareholders voting together will elect
seven candidates to the board. Additionally, the Class B-1
and Class B-2 shareholders will each elect a candidate to the
board.
The following candidates will be elected by the Class A and
Class B shareholders voting together:
- Dennis H. Chookaszian, 68,
Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council;
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance
Companies
- Larry G. Gerdes, 63, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Transcend Services, Inc. and General
Partner, Gerdes Huff Investments
- Daniel R. Glickman, 67,
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)
- James E. Oliff, 63, President,
FILO Corp.
- Edemir Pinto, 58, Chief
Executive Officer, BM&FBOVESPA
- Alex Pollock, 69, Resident
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; former President and Chief
Executive Officer of Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
- William R. Shepard, 65,
President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
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:
- Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, 54,
President, JMB Trading, Corp., and Managing Member, Celeritas
Capital, LLC
- Gary T. Lark, 60, Independent
Trader
- Gerard M. Shannon, 50, Managing
Member, Geneva Trading USA,
LLC
Nominees for Class B-2 director are:
- Yra G. Harris, 58, Global Macro
Trader and Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager
- Patrick J. Mulchrone, 54,
Independent Trader; Partner, Advantage Futures LLC and Buttonwood
Group Trading LLC
- David J. Wescott, 54, President,
The Wescott Group Ltd.
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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