CME Group Inc. Names Slate Of Director Nominees

CME Group Inc. today announced its slate of candidates for its board of directors for election at the company's annual meeting to be held Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

The board of directors recommends the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together elect the following individuals to the board:

Terrence A. Duffy, 62, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CME Group
Timothy S. Bitsberger, 61, Managing Director and Portfolio Specialist, The TCW Group
Charles P. Carey, 67, Former Vice Chairman, CME Group; Principal of HC Technologies, LLC
Dennis H. Chookaszian, 77, Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council; Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Insurance Companies
Bryan T. Durkin, 60, Former President, CME Group; Advisor, CME Group
Ana Dutra, 56, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, The Executives' Club of Chicago
Martin J. Gepsman, 68, Independent Broker and Trader
Larry G. Gerdes, 72, Chief Executive Officer, Pursuant Health; General Partner of Gerdes Huff Investments
Daniel R. Glickman, 76, Executive Director, Aspen Institute's Congressional Program; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001); Member of Congress, Kansas (1977-1995); Lead Director
Daniel G. Kaye, 66, CPA, Retired Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Phyllis M. Lockett, 55, Chief Executive Officer, LEAP Innovations
Deborah J. Lucas, 62, Sloan Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
Terry L. Savage, 76, Nationally-Syndicated Financial Columnist and Author; President, Terry Savage Productions, Ltd.
Rahael Seifu, 39, Senior Counsel, Google LLC
William R. Shepard, 74, President and Founder, Shepard International, Inc.
Howard J. Siegel, 64, Independent Trader
Dennis A. Suskind, 78, Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.

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, 57, Managing Director and Founder, WH Trading LLC
Patrick J. Mulchrone, 63, Independent Trader
Robert J. Tierney, 45, Managing Member and Owner, Kore Trading LLC

Two (2) directors will be elected by the Class B-2 shareholders from the following nominees:

Michael G. Dennis, 40, Principal and Chief Commercial Officer, ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC
Yra G. Harris, 67, Independent Trader
Patrick W. Maloney, 59, Independent Floor Broker
John (Jack) D. Newhouse, Jr., 42, Partner, Gator Trading Partners, LLC

One (1) director will be elected by the Class B-3 shareholders from the following nominee:

Elizabeth A. Cook, 60, Independent Broker and Trader