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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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FIA co-signs letter on equivalence of trading venues under EMIR and MiFIR
Today FIA, alongside ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe), AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association), Assosim (Association for Financial Market Intermediaries), EBF (European Banking Federation), EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders), ICI-Global (Investment Company Institute), IA (Investment Association) and SIFMA AMG (Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Asset Management Group) signed a letter to European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis regarding the equivalence of UK trading venues.
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Andreas Preuss
Andreas Preuss served as a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse from 2006 to 2018, and was its deputy CEO from 2008 to 2018.
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Kim Taylor
Kim Taylor was president of clearing and post-trade services at CME Group, retiring at the end of 2017. Previously, Taylor had served as president of global operations, technology & risk from 2014 to 2016. Before that, Taylor served as president of CME Clearing since 2004 when CME began clearing all Chicago Board of Trade contracts. She led the clearinghouse through the challenges of CME’s subsequent acquisitions of CBOT and the New York Mercantile Exchange, as well as leading the industry through the 2008 financial crisis and the MF Global bankruptcy in 2011. Taylor joined CME in 1989 as a senior analyst, assuming responsibility in 1998 for risk management and serving on the CME executive management team from 2004 until her retirement. She currently serves on the boards of directors for First Midwest Bank, Eventus Systems, and Alma College and previously served on the board for both ISDA and the Illinois Math and Science Academy. In 2014 Crain’s Chicago Business named Taylor number nine on its list of the top 20 most powerful women in Chicago business.
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Robert Cox
Bob Cox was a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a long-time industry leader and former member of FIA’s board. Cox was a key advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on matters involving central counterparty risk and derivatives, serving as vice president in the financial markets group for the bank until his death in December 2018. Before joining the Chicago Fed, Cox was the head of the listed derivatives and clearing business for HSBC in the Americas and the founder and head of the futures business of Goldman Sachs in East Asia. He also served as a board member at the Hong Kong Clearing Corporation and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), and was a member of the Hong Kong Exchange Group’s Clearing Consultative Panel. In his early career he was a member of the Mid America Commodity Exchange in Chicago, where he was chairman of the Rules Committee and the Membership Committee. Cox was a graduate of Northwestern University and studied at the International School of Manila, Philippines.
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