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The nominees for election to CME's Board of Directors include seven candidates to be elected by Class A and Class B shareholders voting together as a single class. Additionally, holders of Class B-1 shares will vote on the election of two directors and holders of Class B-2 shares will vote for the election of one director for the class(es) in which they hold shares.
The following are the seven candidates, all of whom are currently on CME's Board, to be elected by the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together:
- Leo Melamed, 73, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Melamed & Associates Inc.
- Dennis H. Chookaszian, 62, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance Companies
- Martin J. Gepsman, 53, independent floor broker and trader
- Elizabeth Harrington, 63, President and Chief Executive Officer, E. Harrington Global, and Retired Partner, Global Strategy and China Practices, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
- Alex J. Pollock, 63, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- Myron S. Scholes, 64, 1997 Nobel Laureate - Economics; Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Chairman, Oak Hill Platinum Partners
- William R. Shepard, 59, President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
Nominees for Class B-1 directors are:
- Bruce F. Johnson, 63, independent trader
- Howard J. Siegel, 49, independent trader
- Patrick B. Lynch, 40, independent trader
Class B shareholders elect the nominating committee for their respective class. All directors are to be elected for two-year terms at CME's annual meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, April 26.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) became the first publicly traded U.S. financial exchange on Dec. 6, 2002. The company was added to the Russell 1000(R) Index on July 1, 2003. It is the parent company of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ( http://www.cme.com ), the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in interest rates, equities, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved an average of $1.4 billion per day in settlement payments in 2005 and managed $45.6 billion in collateral deposits at December 30, 2005, including $3.2 billion in deposits for non-CME products.
