The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has entered into a new employment agreement that will give CEO Craig S. Donohue’s for three additional years, until Dec. 31, 2009.
Donohue, 44, has served as CEO since January 2004. He previously served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer and, since joining CME as staff attorney in 1989, has held key leadership roles in the company’s corporate administration, legal and business development areas.
In addition, Donohue serves as vice chairman and chairman-elect of the National Council on Economic Education, as a director of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Executives’ Club of Chicago, and as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.
He holds an MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a JD degree from John Marshall Law School, a master of laws degree from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Drake University.