CME Group Appoints Chris LaRosa as Director, Association Relations
August 28 2008 - 4:25PM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's
largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that
is has hired Chris LaRosa as Director, Association Relations.
LaRosa will be responsible for the implementation of CME Group's
global association strategy and ensuring that the company's
relationships with professional and industry associations are
aligned with its corporate initiatives in order to deliver customer
value. He will report to Chris Mead, Director, Product Marketing.
Prior to joining CME Group, LaRosa, 33, gained more than 10 years
of stakeholder relations and public sector experience in consulting
and other roles. He most recently served as Principal and Practice
Leader with SRA International in Arlington, Virginia, where he led
business development initiatives and provided consulting services
in the areas of energy and environmental policy, including emerging
carbon regulatory programs and markets. He also has worked for the
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and the
Office of Economic Development at James Madison University. LaRosa
earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Allegheny
College, a master's degree in public administration from James
Madison University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management
at Northwestern University. CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is
the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building
on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, 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 trading floors in
Chicago and New York. 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, energy, agricultural commodities,
metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and
real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
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and E- mini, 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. Further information about CME Group
and its products can be found at http://www.cmegroup.com/. CME-G
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