CME Group Appoints Evans Papanikolaou as Managing Director, CME Globex Market Operations

by Chicago Mercantile Exchange 30 Jul 16:13

CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CME Group, the world’s largest
and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has appointed
Evans Papanikolaou as Managing Director, CME Globex Market Operations.
Papanikolaou, 43, will be responsible for overseeing the CME Globex Control
Center (GCC), the first point of contact for CME Globex customer support, as
well as the GCC project management and communications functions.
Additionally, he will play a leading role in assisting the cross-divisional
effort aimed at enhancing the company’s strategic initiatives from an
operational perspective. He will report to Julie Holzrichter, Managing
Director, Operations.

Before joining CME Group, Papanikolaou gained more than 15 years of
experience in the global financial services and consulting industries. He
most recently served as Director, Chicago Institutional Futures, Citigroup
Capital Markets and Banking, where he was responsible for running the firm’s
institutional futures business/office in Chicago. He also has worked as a
Futures Trader/Research Analyst for Panos Trading and as an independent
futures trader. He has also held operations and client management consulting
roles for a variety of firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Talus
Solutions, Diamond Technology Partners and Accenture.

Papanikolaou earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and management from
Beloit College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business.

CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world’s largest and most diverse
derivatives exchange. Formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), 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 its trading floors. 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, agricultural commodities, and alternative investment
products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is traded on NASDAQ
under the symbol “CME.”

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E-mini, are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago
Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago.
Further information about CME Group and its products can be found at
http://www.cmegroup.com/.

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SOURCE: CME Group

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