The Kansas City Board of Trade announces 2008 officers and directors, who took office at a regular board meeting held today. Members of the Kansas City Board of Trade elected Jeffrey W. Voge, an individual member, as chairman in an election held earlier this month. Voge served as first vice chairman of the KCBT in 2007 and as second vice chairman in 2006. The first vice chairman traditionally has assumed the chairmanship of the KCBT in the following year.
Voge came to Kansas City in 1994 as southwest regional manager of Harvest States Cooperatives, St. Paul, Minn., before joining FIMAT USA in 1996. He was approved as a KCBT member in 1997, purchased his own membership in 1999 and began representing himself in 2001. He served two terms as a director of the KCBT Clearing Corp., from 1998 to 1999 and 2004. He served as first vice president of the KCBT Clearing Corp. in 1999 and as president in 2005. He served one term as an exchange director, from 2000 to 2001. He also has served as chairman of the marketing and wheat options contract committees. He succeeds H. Franklin Stone as chairman of the exchange.
James W. Neville, Jr., an individual member, has automatically advanced from the post of second vice chairman in 2007 to first vice chairman in 2008. Neville became a member in 1986 and purchased his own membership in 1991. He served one term as an exchange director, from 2002 to 2003. He served a term as a director of the KCBT Clearing Corp., from 2005 to 2006 (when he also served as first vice president).
Richard L. Mandl, Director, Exchange Traded Derivatives, UBS Securities, LLC, has been elected as second vice chairman. Mandl manages the UBS office at the Kansas City Board of Trade. Mandl became a member in 1982. He served three terms as an exchange director, from 1993 to 1994, from 2003 to 2004, and in 2007. He served in several capacities for the KCBT Clearing Corp.; from 1998 to 1999 he served as a director, in 2005 he served as secretary/treasurer, and in 2006 he served as vice president.
The exchange also elected the following members to two-year terms on the board of directors: Randall O. Wallace, FC Stone, L.L.C; and Dixon B. Mooney, an individual member.
They join the following directors serving the second year of two-year terms: William E. Krueger, Lansing Trade Group, LLC; Steven K. Campbell, Louis Dreyfus Corp.; Richard W. Plackemeier, Prudential Bache Commodities, LLC; Greg Edelblute, Cereal Food Processors, Inc.; and Jim Bosley, an individual member. Jim Paulsen, an individual member, will serve one year, finishing out a term vacated by Richard L. Mandl when he was elected second vice chairman.
