Board of Directors

Previously, Duffy served as Executive Chairman and President since 2012 and as Executive Chairman since 2007. He served as Chairman of the Board of CME and CME Holdings since April 2002 and as Executive Chairman since October 2006. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of CME Holdings since 2001 and of the Board of CME from 1998 to 2002. He was President of TDA Trading from 1981 to 2002. He has been a CME member since 1981 and a Board member since 1995.

Duffy was appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003 to join the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), a position he held until 2013.

During his tenure, Duffy took the company public and led the first merger in the futures industry, combining the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2007. The following year, he oversaw the acquisition of NYMEX. In 2018, he led the acquisition of NEX, streamlining trading across futures, options, cash and OTC markets. Duffy’s landmark 2021 partnership with Google Cloud will bring expanded access, new products and greater efficiencies to derivatives markets through cloud technology.

Under Duffy’s leadership, CME Group has received a wide range of industry awards recognizing the exchange, clearing house and product innovation. He was named FOW’s International CEO of the Year, one of TabbFORUM’s 40 Innovators in Financial Markets, and included in Crain’s Who’s Who in Chicago Business. He serves as Co-Chair of the Mayo Clinic Greater Chicago Leadership Council and is Vice Chairman of CME Group Foundation.

He attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and received a Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa, from Saint Xavier University and a Doctor of Humane Letters from DePaul University.

Ms. Benesh retired from Deloitte in 2021 with 40 years of providing audit, assurance and advisory services to public and private companies within the energy, public utility, renewables, construction, manufacturing, and financial services industries. She also served as secretary and a Board member of Deloitte & Touche LLP from 2004 to 2017, the Board which had purview over the professional aspects of the audit & assurance practice. Through her career at Deloitte, she has gained experience with ESG matters and responses required for cyber incidents. Ms. Benesh is a CPA and current member of the AICPA. Ms. Benesh is active in the community in both Detroit and New York supporting multiple non-profit organizations, including serving on the Board of the Marygrove Conservancy.

Mr. Bitsberger served as Managing Director and Portfolio Specialist on the Account Management Team at The TCW Group from March 2017 to February 2021, where he was responsible for communicating investment strategies, performance and outlook to clients. Previously, he served as Managing Director, Official Institutions FIG Coverage Group of BNP PNA, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, from December 2010 to November 2015, as a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton from May 2010 to November 2010 and was with BancAccess Financial from December 2009 to April 2010. He also served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Freddie Mac from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Bitsberger also was with the U.S. Treasury Department from 2001 to 2005, serving first as their Deputy Assistant Secretary for federal finance and as the Assistant Secretary for financial markets. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Assistant Secretary in 2004.

Mr. Carey served as our Vice Chairman from 2007 to 2010 in connection with our merger with CBOT Holdings, Inc. Prior to our merger, Mr. Carey served as Chairman of CBOT since 2003, as Vice Chairman from 2000 to 2002, as First Vice Chairman during 1993 and 1994 and as a Board member of CBOT from 1997 to 1999 and from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Carey was owner of HC Technologies LLC, until it was acquired in 2023.  He has been a member of CBOT since 1978 and was a member of the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange from 1976 to 1978. Mr. Carey previously served on the Board of CBOT Holdings, Inc. until our merger in 2007. Mr. Carey serves as Chairman of the CME Group Foundation.

Ms. Cook has been a member of CME since 1983, starting her career in 1978 as a runner for Clayton Brokerage Inc. She is a member of the Board’s compensation and audit committees. Ms. Cook actively participates as co-chair of the CME arbitration and floor conduct committees and serves on the Board of the CME Gratuity Fund. In addition, she serves on CME’s membership and business conduct committees and continues her involvements as a CME political action committee member. Ms. Cook is the founder and owner of MiCat Group LLC, a firm specializing in option execution services focusing on equities, FX and interest rates. She also serves as president of Lucky Star LLC, a commercial property management company. Ms. Cook serves as President of Women in Listed Derivatives and on the board of Associated Colleges of Illinois. Her external activities include NACD Governance Fellow and completion of its Director Professionalism course, member of Business Executives for National Security, Ambassador of the Navy Seal Foundation, Ambassador for The ALS United Greater Chicago and an active supporter of Honor Flight Chicago. Ms. Cook has participated in numerous risk and audit educational programs and as a long-time market participant has significant risk management experience.

Mr. Durkin served as an advisor to our CEO from May 2020 through September 2021. Formerly, Mr. Durkin served as President of CME Group from 2016, overseeing the company’s Technology, Global Operations, International and Data Services businesses. Mr. Durkin previously served as our Chief Commercial Officer since 2014 and as Chief Operating Officer since 2007. As part of his responsibilities, he led the global integrations following CME’s merger with CBOT in 2007 and CME Group’s acquisition of NYMEX in 2008. Before joining CME Group, Mr. Durkin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the CBOT. Prior to that role, he was in charge of CBOT’s Office of Investigations and Audits. His career with both CME Group and CBOT has spanned more than 30 years. He previously served as a member of the COMEX Governors Committee and the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee and Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. Mr. Durkin serves on the Board of Advisors for Misericordia and on the Board of Trustees for Lewis University.Mr. Durkin has served as a member of our Board and as an advisor to our CEO since May 2020. Formerly, Mr. Durkin served as President of CME Group from 2016, overseeing the company’s Technology, Global Operations, International and Data Services businesses. Mr. Durkin previously served as our Chief Commercial Officer since 2014 and as Chief Operating Officer since 2007. As part of his responsibilities, he led the global integrations following CME’s merger with CBOT in 2007 and CME Group’s acquisition of NYMEX in 2008. Before joining CME Group, Mr. Durkin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the CBOT. Prior to that role, he was in charge of CBOT’s Office of Investigations and Audits. His career with both CME Group and CBOT has spanned more than 30 years. He previously served as a member of the COMEX Governors Committee and the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee and Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. Mr. Durkin serves on the Board of Advisors for Misericordia and on the Board of Trustees for Lewis University.

Mr. Ford served in Congress for 10 years, from 1997 to 2007. Mr. Ford represented Tennessee’s 9th congressional district and was a member of the House Financial Services, Budget and Education committee during his time in Congress. He was appointed in January 2023 to serve as the Regional President for the New York City market for PNC Financial Services Group, where he has served as Vice Chairman, Corporate and Institutional Banking from 2020. Prior to joining PNC, Mr. Ford spent more than 10 years in investment banking with Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ford has also taught public policy at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan, is a co-host of “The Five” and is a frequent contributor to “Special Report with Bret Baier.” He served on the advisory board of One River Asset Management from 2021 until March 2023. Mr. Ford previously served as the non-executive chairman of Rx Saver during 2019 and 2020, a patient driven prescription drug saving technology platform. Mr. Ford also is affiliated with a number of non-profit organizations.

He has been a member of CME for more than 35 years. Mr. Gepsman has also been an independent floor broker and trader since 1985. Mr. Gepsman currently serves as Chairman of our business conduct, membership, floor conduct committees and CME Gratuity Fund. During his board tenure at CME, he served as a member on the compensation, strategic steering, executive, clearing house oversight, ethics and arbitration committees. Mr. Gepsman has also held board positions, including a Chairman’s role, at the company’s foreign exchange subsidiaries. Mr. Gepsman currently serves as Vice Chairman of the CME political action committee. Mr. Gepsman also serves on the membership appeals committee with the National Futures Association. He was a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1982 to 1985.

Mr. Gerdes has served as Executive Chairman of the board of Pursuant Health (f/k/a SoloHealth), a private health-care company in Atlanta since 2013.  He served as CEO of Pursuant Health from November 2013 to December 2023, as its Chairman since 2012 and as a board member since 2007.  Mr. Gerdes is also a general partner of Gerdes Huff Investments. Mr. Gerdes served as a general partner of Sand Hill Financial Company, a venture capital partnership, from 1983 to January 2019. Mr. Gerdes formerly served as Chairman and CEO of Transcend Services, Inc., concluding with the sale of that company in 2012, and as a director of Access Plans, Inc. from 2001 until its sale in 2012. Mr. Gerdes is a major shareholder and President of Friesland Farms, LLC. Mr. Gerdes is an Ambassador at The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, a Director Emeritus at Monmouth College.  Mr. Gerdes is also a director and part owner of Walnut Custom Components, Walnut, Illinois. Mr. Gerdes previously served on the board of CBOT Holdings, Inc. until our merger in 2007.

In March 2021, Mr. Glickman became a Senior Adviser to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. Mr. Glickman also has served as Senior Fellow for the Bipartisan Policy Center since 2010. Mr. Glickman served as Vice President and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program from 2011 to March 2021.  Mr. Glickman served as Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. from 2004 to 2010. Mr. Glickman served as Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government from 2002 to 2004 and served as Senior Advisor in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, from 2001 to 2004. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 through 2001 and as a member of the U.S. Congress, representing a district in Kansas, from 1977 through 1995. Mr. Glickman serves as a distinguished Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a member and Founding Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, established in the 2014 Farm Bill by Congress, and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of APCO Worldwide, a public relations firm based in Washington, DC. Mr. Glickman is on the Advisory Boards of Francis Energy, LLC and Eat Just, Inc., a cellular meat company.  Mr. Glickman also serves on a number of non-profit advisory boards with a focus on agriculture and food supply and is an adjunct professor of Food and Nutrition at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition.  He also serves as Co-Chair of our Agriculture Markets Advisory Council.

Mr. Hobert founded WH Trading, LLC, a proprietary options and futures trading firm, in 1998. WH Trading serves as a market maker and liquidity provider in numerous asset classes at CME in both its open outcry and electronically traded markets. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Hobert worked for Cooper-Neff and Associates as an FX options market maker on the floor of CME and in over-the-counter markets. In 1994, he founded Hobert Trading Inc., which is currently a member of WH Trading, LLC.

Mr. Kaye served as Interim CFO and Treasurer of HealthEast Care System from 2013 to 2014. Prior to joining HealthEast, Mr. Kaye spent 35 years with Ernst & Young LLP, from which he retired in 2012. Throughout his time at Ernst & Young, where he was an audit partner for 25 years, Mr. Kaye enjoyed a track record of increasing leadership and responsibilities, including serving as the New England Managing Partner and the Midwest Managing Partner of Assurance. Mr. Kaye serves on the compensation committee of Alliance Bernstein and on the audit (Chair), finance and risk committees of Equitable Holdings, Inc. (formerly AXA Equitable Holdings). Mr. Kaye is a CPA and National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow.

Ms. Lockett is the Founder of LEAP Innovations. She has served as its Strategic Advisor since February 2024 and previously served as its CEO since its formation in 2014. Prior to her role at LEAP, since 2005, Ms. Lockett served as President and CEO of New Schools for Chicago, a venture philanthropy organization that invests in the start-up of new public schools. Ms. Lockett served from 1999 to 2005 as Executive Director of the Civic Consulting Alliance, a pro-bono consulting firm sponsored by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago that leads strategic planning initiatives, process improvement, and program development projects for government agencies. She also held marketing, sales, and business development roles with Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Kraft Foods, and General Mills. Ms. Lockett is an independent director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago. She is also a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Recently, Ms. Lockett was named a contributor to Forbes, where she writes about education innovation and the future of learning.

Ms. Lucas has served as the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 2011 and as the Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy from 2012. Her current research focuses on government financial institutions and financial policy, and she teaches courses on futures and options, and fixed income securities and derivatives. She serves on an advisory board for the Urban Institute. She is a trustee of the NBER pension plans, an associate editor for several academic journals, and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee and the Financial Economics Roundtable. Previous appointments include assistant and associate director at the Congressional Budget Office; professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School; chief economist at the Congressional Budget Office, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. She has been an independent director on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

Mr. Maloney has been a member of CME since 1985. Mr. Maloney has served as an independent floor broker in the Eurodollar (now SOFR) option pit from 2007 to present. Mr. Maloney has served on numerous CME functional committees: pit committee 1997-1999, nominating committee 1995-1996, arbitration committee 1994-1995, booth space committee 1992-1996 and floor practices committee 1995-1997. Mr. Maloney currently serves on our political action committee.

Mr. Mulchrone has been a member of CME since 1980. He previously served as a member of our board from 1991 to 2001, including holding the position of Vice Chairman. Mr. Mulchrone served as a filling order broker in the Eurodollar pit until 2004. Mr. Mulchrone has been an independent trader from 2004 to present. Mr. Mulchrone is a founder of Advantage Futures (2003). He served as a member of the board of directors of Standard Bank & Trust until its sale in 2017. He serves as the Vice Chairman of our political action committee and has served on the Class B-2 nominating committee. Mr. Mulchrone received a B.S. in Accounting from Western Illinois University.

Ms. Savage started her career as a stockbroker and became a founding member of —and the first woman trader on—the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Ms. Savage is a nationally syndicated financial columnist, author and President of Terry Savage Productions, Ltd., which provides speeches, columns and videos on personal finance for corporate and association meetings, publications and national television programs and networks. Ms. Savage is a registered investment advisor and commodity trading advisor. She was a member of CME from 1975 to 1980.

Ms. Seifu has served since November 2022 as Director, Legal at Google LLC, where she manages a team of lawyers supporting products and systems that enable Google services, such as privacy and data protection, user experience, developer experience and support of Google's internal business functions.  At Google, she previously served as Associate Corporate Counsel from April 2014 to June 2016, Corporate Counsel from June 2016 to May 2019, and Senior Counsel from May 2019 to November 2022.  During her tenure as Senior Counsel at Google, Ms. Seifu was the first acting Chief of Staff for the Legal Department.  Prior to joining Google, Ms. Seifu was a Corporate Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP from 2013 to 2014, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions and provided corporate governance guidance for public company boards and special committees. Ms. Seifu worked from 2008 to 2013 as a Corporate Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, investments, and various other corporate transactions. She also advised clients on regulatory compliance, securities law reporting, and corporate governance matters. Immediately following graduation from Yale Law School, Ms. Seifu served as a law clerk to the Honorable George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Shepard has been a member of CME for more than 45 years. Previously, he served as our Second Vice Chairman from 2002 to 2007. Mr. Shepard is founder and President of Shepard International, Inc., a futures commission merchant. Mr. Shepard served as Chair of the clearing house oversight committee from its formation in 2016 to August 2021. He now serves as a Co-Chair of our clearing house risk committee and a member of our interest rate swaps risk committee.

Mr. Siegel has been a member of CME since 1977. In 1978, Mr. Siegel began his trading career at Moccatta Metals in their Class B arbitrage operations and served as an order filler until 1980. From there, he went on to fill orders and trade cattle from 1980 until 1982. At that time, Mr. Siegel became a partner and an officer in a futures commission merchant that cleared at CME until selling his ownership interest in 1990. For more than 30 years, Mr. Siegel has been an independent trader on our CME exchange. He continues to actively trade electronically in our agricultural product suite. Mr. Siegel is the Secretary and Treasurer of the CME Group Foundation. Mr. Siegel chairs our clearing house oversight committee.

Mr. Suskind is a retired General Partner of Goldman Sachs & Co. He was an Executive Vice President at J. Aron and Company prior to its acquisition by Goldman Sachs in 1980. He joined J. Aron in 1961. During his tenure in trading, Mr. Suskind served as Vice Chairman of NYMEX, Vice Chairman of COMEX, a member of the board of the Futures Industry Association, a member of the board of International Precious Metals Institute, and a member of the boards of the Gold and Silver Institutes in Washington, DC. Mr. Suskind previously served on the board of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. until our merger in 2008.

Mr. Tierney has been a member of CBOT since 1999, CME since 2012 and NYMEX/COMEX since 2020. Currently Mr. Tierney is a managing partner and owner of Kore Trading LLC, a registered member firm holding multiple memberships on all CME group exchanges. Kore Trading actively trades most CME asset classes as well as U.S. Treasuries on BrokerTec. Mr. Tierney's firm mentors, trains and fosters college graduates in various CME group spread products. In addition, Kore Trading has developed and created proprietary software to foster growth. Mr. Tierney serves on our business conduct committee and as a director of our political action committee.