"We are pleased to welcome Matt Gordon to NYBOT. Mr. Gordon brings to NYBOT over 27 years of marketing expertise and new business development experience with major multi-national organizations," commented NYBOT President and CEO Mark D. Fichtel. "Mr. Gordon comes to NYBOT with a consumer background to a new industry, allowing him to 'think out of the box' regarding both our current, as well as planned new, products."
Mr. Gordon joins NYBOT from DEP Canada Limited where he most recently was a General Manager and previously Director of Marketing and Sales (1993-1997). He established and ran this Canadian division of Schwarzkopf & DEP, including sourcing and hiring an entire marketing, sales and office staff.
From 1974-1993, Mr. Gordon held a number of marketing and executive positions with large consumer products companies, such as H.J. Heinz, Inc., Norcliff Thayer, Inc., division of Revlon, General Cigar Corporation, and Oral B Labs, Inc.
Mr. Gordon has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in Economics, and an MBA from New York University.
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is the parent company of the Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE) and the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE). Through its two exchanges and their subsidiaries and divisions, which include Citrus Associates, FINEX and the New York Futures Exchange (NYFE), NYBOT offers a variety of agricultural, financial and index products. The Cantor Exchange (CX), a joint venture with eSpeed, Inc., provides the first full-time, electronic market for U.S. Treasury and Agency futures.
