Sigalos oversees the strategic direction, development and day-to-day implementation of all compensation, health, welfare and retirement benefits for CME. Additionally, she is responsible for continuing to maintain a balance between benefits offered and benefit costs, as well as aligning the company's compensation strategy and its business objectives.
Before joining CME, Sigalos was an Executive Compensation Specialist with Hewitt Associates in Lincolnshire,Ill. At Hewitt, she specialized in advising boards on change-in-control severance, short- and long-term incentive plan design, executive employment contracts, IPO/spin-off implementation and design, mergers and acquisitions, Board of Director compensation, nonqualified retirement arrangements and total rewards strategies. She joined Hewitt in 1992.
Sigalos earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Northwestern University in 1987 and an MBA degree, with emphasis in finance and marketing, from the University of Chicago in 1992.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved about $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments in the first half of 2003 and managed $29.1 billion in collateral deposits at June 30, 2003. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000® Index.
