CME Group announces slate of nominees 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, 13 May 2009.
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:
Robert F. Corvino, 51, Independent Trader and current director;Larry G. Gerdes, 60, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Transcend Services, Inc., General; Partner, Gerdes Huff Investments and current director;
John L. Pietrzak, 53, Managing Partner, Longwood Partners, General Partner, Sparta Group and current director;
Dennis H. Chookaszian, 65, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance Companies and current director;
Daniel R. Glickman, 64, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former Member of Congress and current director;
James E. Oliff, 60, President, FILO Corporation and current director;Alex J. Pollock, 66, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and current director;William R. Shepard, 62, President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc. 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 directors are:
Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, 50, Independent Trader, President, JMB Trading Corp., Inc.;William G. Salatich, Jr., 57, Independent Broker and Trader, current director.
Nominees for Class B-2 directors are:
Timothy A. Lattner, 45, Independent Trader, President, LTT Industries;David J. Wescott, 52, President, The Wescott Group Ltd., Vice President, MF Global and current director.
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