Scott Gordon

Mr. Gordon is Chairman of the Executive Committee of CME.

Mr. Gordon is President and Chief Operating Officer of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Futures (USA), Inc., a CME clearing member firm wholly owned by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., one of the world’s largest financial institutions.

Mr. Gordon discovered the fascination of the futures markets during a summer job after his first year of college, beginning his career as a clerk on the floor of CME in 1971. He has been an independent trader, a floor broker and a clearing firm executive. He has traded every product type the CME offers, including currencies, interest rates, stock indexes and physical commodities, giving him insights into the market dynamics of all CME product groups.

From 1974 until 1983, Mr. Gordon served in various trading and management positions with Rosenthal and Company, and from 1983 until 1988, in similar positions at Dellsher Investment Company. He has been with Tokyo-Mitsubishi and its predecessor firms since 1989. He has been a CME member since 1977. Mr. Gordon is currently a member of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and was previously a member from 1988 to 1990, 1993 to 1995, and 1999 to present. He was also a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) from 1975 until 1977.

Mr. Gordon serves on the boards of the National Futures Association and the Futures Industry Institute, as well as the Advisory Committee to the IIT Center for the Study of Law and Financial Markets. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as a member of the Governing Board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education, whose mission is to support and encourage an understanding of the United States economic system by children.

Mr. Gordon received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, cum laude, from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1974. A resident of Chicago, he is married and has two children.