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Garry Jones
Garry Jones has over 35 years of experience in financial services, and has been CEO of three of the largest derivatives and OTC exchanges in Europe: BrokerTec, LIFFE and the London Metal Exchange. Jones was part of the initial management team at BrokerTec, becoming CEO and president before running ICAP Electronic Broking (Europe) — the forerunner of NEX. Under his leadership, Brokertec became the largest global OTC trading platform. Jones then joined NYSE Euronext in 2005 and was global head of derivatives and CEO of the NYSE LIFFE exchange. In 2013, he became co-head of markets at HKEX and CEO of the London Metal Exchange. He left HKEX in 2017, remaining an advisor to the company until 2018. Jones was a founding member of the Futures and Options Association’s European Industry Council and was a member of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority senior practitioner panel that advised on new policy initiatives. He served on the board of The Federation of European Security Exchanges and as alternate board member of the World Federation of Exchanges. Jones also served as a director of LCH.Clearnet as well as the Qatar Exchange.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer began his career in 1976, as an investment analyst at Simon and Coates. In 1980, he joined Drexel Burnham Lambert where he spent three years broking futures. Between 1983 and 1986, Spencer was a director at money broker Charles Fulton, until his involvement in the new interest rate swaps market led him to set up Intercapital in 1986. Intercapital grew over 10 years from four original staffers to over 300 employees with offices in London, New York and Sydney. In October 1998, Intercapital merged with EXCO, a listed money broker. The following year it merged again with Garban to form ICAP and named Spencer as its chief executive. In 2016, ICAP sold its global hybrid voice broking business to Tullett Prebon and the remaining ICAP businesses formed a new company called NEX Group where Spencer remained as chief executive. In 2018, NEX reached an agreement to be acquired by CME Group. After completion of the transaction, Spencer joined the CME Board in addition to working as a special adviser focused on integrating the business and evolving its client offerings. Spencer was named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2010.
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ETD Volume - February 2019
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.41 billion contracts in the month of February, down 10.7% from the previous month and down 1.6% from February 2018.
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Paul Davies
Paul Davies spent over 30 years in the investment banking industry, primarily in futures and options, including 25 years at Goldman Sachs where he last served as managing director and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Futures in Singapore. Davies was instrumental in the formation and growth of FIA Asia (now part of FIA), serving as chairman of its board of directors and setting the organization on the successful path it has followed to this day. Davies began his career in banking at Hill Samuel Bank in London prior to his move to Goldman Sachs in 1992. In 1996, he was sent to Singapore for a threemonth assignment which eventually turned into a stay of over 20 years. Throughout his career, Davies had various sales and operations roles in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. He served in a variety of leadership roles across the Asia-Pacific region, including chairman of the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Advisory Committee, a member of the Singapore Exchange Disciplinary Committee and chairman of the board of directors for the DTCC Data Repository in Singapore. Since his departure from Goldman Sachs, Davies has been managing his private investments and serving as director at Pimp My Tuk-Tuk, a philanthropic venture that raises funds to help the underprivileged children of Sri Lanka.
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Phupinder Gill
Phupinder Gill retired as CEO of CME Group in 2016, after four years running the firm’s day-to-day operations and implementing strategic initiatives to expand CME’s core business into new areas of listed, overthe-counter and emerging markets. He first joined the company in 1988.
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Bonnie Litt
From 1989 through 2018, Bonnie Litt was a lawyer at Goldman Sachs, most recently serving as managing director and practice group head for its U.S. prime services practice that included prime brokerage, futures, cleared derivatives and securities clearing. At Goldman Sachs, Litt was a member of the firm’s exchange and clearing house review committee, its securities division client business standards committee and regional new products committee. Throughout her career, she was an active member of the FIA Law and Compliance Division, serving as a member of the executive committee from 1994 through 2018 and serving as the group’s president from 2008 to 2010. Litt also served on the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee from 2004 to 2009, the NFA board of directors from 2002 to 2006 and the NFA FCM Advisory Committee. In 2018, Litt left Goldman to pursue her long-term interest in education reform and access by joining Success Academy Charter Schools as general counsel. She is also a member of the board of directors of Breakthrough New York, a 10-year college success program focused on low income New York children. She has been board chair of BTNY since 2016.
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Lee B. Stern
Lee Stern has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange since 1949, and is one of its longest serving active members.
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Mitch Fulscher
Mitch Fulscher played an important role in the development of the financial futures markets as a partner in the Chicago office of Arthur Andersen.
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Christopher K. Hehmeyer
Chris Hehmeyer is the manager and chief executive officer of proprietary trading firm Hehmeyer LLC and its subsidiaries. He is a registered floor broker with the National Futures Association, and has served on NFA’s board of directors for nine years and is past chairman of the board. Hehmeyer is a member of the board of directors of FIA, where he has served in several capacities, including vice-chairman of the board. Hehmeyer was one of the founding partners of Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co., a futures commission merchant and clearing member firm at the Chicago Board of Trade and CME Group. He was a managing director of Virginia Trading Corporation from 1981 until the establishment of the GHCO partnership in 1984. When GHCO was sold to Penson Worldwide in 2007, Hehmeyer became the CEO of Penson GHCO until 2010. Hehmeyer became a full member of the CBOT in 1981 and was a member of its board of directors from 1984 to 1987 and served on over 40 committees. He also served on the board of governors of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation from 1993 until 1999, and as chairman from 1996 to 1998. He began his career as a runner on the trading floor in 1977.
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