The FIA also announced the composition of its board for 2005: Patrice Blanc, Fimat Group; Philippe Buhannic, TradingScreen Inc.; William Cleary, Banc of America Futures, Inc.; Kevin Collins, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.; George Crapple, Milburn Ridgefield Corporation; John Damgard, FIA; Chris Damilatis, Prudential Financial Derivatives LLC; James Davison, Cargill Investor Services, Inc.; Michael Dawley, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Richard Ferina, Calyon Financial, Inc.; Sandy Fleischman, Lehman Brothers Inc.; Kenneth Ford, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation; Ronald Hersch, Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.; Clark Hutchison, UBS Securities LLC; Jeffrey Jennings, Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc.; David Mitchell, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Ira Polk, Man Financial Inc.; Kenneth Raisler, Sullivan & Cromwell; Edward Rosen, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP; Mark Rosenberg, SSARIS Advisors Inc.; Mark Rzepczynski, John W. Henry & Co., Inc.; Gregory Sachs, Deerfield Capital Management LLC; Michael Schaefer, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; Steven Winter, Barclays Capital Inc.; and Allan Zavarro, ABN AMRO Incorporated.
Todd Petzel, Azimuth Alternative Assets, and Robert Fink were re-elected as public directors.
Retiring from the board since the last FIA Annual Meeting in March 2004 were: Peter Borish, OneChicago; William Brodsky, Chicago Board Options Exchange; W. Robert Felker, J.P. Morgan Futures Inc.; Alan Genn; William McCoy, Morgan Stanley; and Charles Nastro.
FIA is the national trade organization for the futures industry. Its membership includes more than 40 of the largest futures commission merchants. FIA estimates that its members are responsible for more than 90% of all public customer business executed on U.S. contract markets.
