CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2025
/PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc., the world's leading derivatives
marketplace, today announced its slate of candidates for its board
of directors for election at the company's annual meeting to be
held Thursday, May 8, 2025.
The board of directors recommends the Class A and Class B
shareholders voting together elect the following individuals to the
board:
- Terrence A. Duffy, 66, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, CME Group
- Kathryn Benesh, 65, CPA, Retired
Partner, Deloitte
- Timothy S. Bitsberger, 65,
Retired Managing Director and Portfolio Specialist, The TCW Group;
Former Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Freddie Mac; U.S.
Treasury Department (2001-2005)
- Charles P. Carey, 71, Former
Vice Chairman, CME Group
- Bryan T. Durkin, 64, Former President, CME Group
- Harold Ford Jr., 54, Regional President, PNC Financial
Services Group; Former Member of Congress (1997-2007)
- Martin J. Gepsman, 72, Independent Broker and Trader
- Daniel G. Kaye, 70, CPA, Retired Partner, Ernst &
Young LLP
- Phyllis M. Lockett, 59, Founder & Senior Advisor, LEAP
Innovations; CEO LEAP-X
- Deborah J. Lucas, 66, Sloan
Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School
of Management; Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance
and Policy
- Rahael Seifu, 43, Director of Legal, Google LLC
- William R. Shepard, 78, President and Founder, Shepard
International, Inc.
- Howard J. Siegel, 68, Independent Trader
- Dennis A. Suskind, 82, Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs
& Co.; Lead Director, CME Group
At the 2025 annual meeting, Larry G.
Gerdes, Daniel R. Glickman
and Terry L. Savage will not stand
for re-election and will be retiring from the board.
"We want to thank our departing directors Larry, Dan and Terry
for their distinguished service on our Board," said Terry Duffy, CME Group Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer. "We are grateful for their many contributions to
CME Group's success."
In addition, the CME Group Nominating and Governance Committee
is recommending the following individuals for election by CME
Group's Class B shareholders.
Three (3) directors will be elected by the Class B-1
shareholders from the following nominees:
- William W. Hobert, 61, Managing
Director and Founder, WH Trading LLC
- Patrick J. Mulchrone, 67,
Independent Trader
- Robert J. Tierney Jr., 49,
Managing Member and Owner, Kore Trading LLC
Two (2) directors will be elected by the Class B-2 shareholders
from the following nominees:
- Patrick W. Maloney, 63,
Independent Floor Broker
- Liam Smith, 40, Chief Strategy
Officer, Optiver
One (1) director will be elected by the Class B-3 shareholders
from the following nominee:
- Elizabeth A. Cook, 64,
Independent Broker and Trader
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board
of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York
Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity
Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC
and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a
product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI").
"S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500 and The 500 are
trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow
Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks
have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored,
endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI
makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in
such products. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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