CME Group Hires Mark Thompson as Director, Hedge Funds
CHICAGO, Dec 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ --
CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has hired Mark H. Thompson Jr. as Director, Hedge Funds. Thompson, 37, will be responsible for serving as the company's primary liaison to the East Coast hedge fund community and developing hedge fund business within the region across all CME Group product lines. He will be based out of New York and will report to Tina Lemieux, Managing Director, Hedge Funds and Broker Services.
Thompson joins CME Group from UBS Securities LLC where he most recently served as a member of the macro/cross asset sales team. In this role, he was responsible for serving as the single point of contact for macro, long/short, transition and asset managers for all derivatives and cash products and performing cross-asset idea generation and research for clients. He also served as a member of the bank's global futures and options sales team. His background also includes operations and analyst roles with Moore Capital Management and Banque Paribas.
Thompson earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Villanova University. He is a Series 7, 3, 55 and 63 registered representative.
CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com) is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. By acting as the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, CME Clearing virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk. CME Clearing also offers $7 billion in financial safeguards to help mitigate systemic risk, providing the security and confidence market participants need to operate, invest and grow. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
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