CME Group Appoints Ricardo Sant'Anna as Director, Business Development, Latin America
April 04 2008 - 10:29AM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the
world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today
announced the appointment of Ricardo Sant'Anna as Director,
Business Development, Latin America. Sant'Anna will act as the
primary business liaison to CME Group's strategic partner in the
region, the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange S.A.
(BM&F). Working with CME Group's product development and sales
teams, Sant'Anna will coordinate joint sales and promotional
activities with BM&F in Brazil and throughout Latin America. He
will report to Neal Brady, Managing Director, Business Development.
"As part of our partnership with BM&F, we are pleased to
further establish our presence in this important region and begin
serving the fast-growing Brazilian and Latin American markets, and
Ricardo's addition to our team allows us to further strengthen
these efforts," said Neal Brady, Managing Director, Business
Development. "Ricardo's deep customer knowledge will be a
tremendous asset as we seek to extend our global products to new
users and to facilitate investment flows from our global client
base into this important emerging market." Sant'Anna, 46, who has
18 years of experience in the financial services industry, joins
CME Group from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.,
where he worked as an institutional broker at the firm's Commodity
Futures and Options desk, serving global commodity indexes, hedge
funds and banks dealing in energies, metals, soft commodities,
livestock and grains. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Sant'Anna was an
institutional broker with Cargill Investor Services, Inc. serving
Latin American sugar, livestock and grain clients. Sant'Anna holds
a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the State
University of Campinas and an MBA from the COPPEAD Graduate School
of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, one of
Brazil's leading business schools. He speaks Portuguese and
Spanish. CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world's
largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Formed by the 2007
merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago
Board of Trade (CBOT), CME Group serves the risk management needs
of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME
Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex
electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME Group
offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all
major asset classes, including futures and options based on
interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural
commodities, and alternative investment products such as weather
and real estate. CME Group is traded on the New York Stock Exchange
and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME." The Globe logo, CME, Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, CME Group, Globex and E-mini, are trademarks
of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Further information about CME
Group and its products can be found at http://www.cmegroup.com/.
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