Greg Kuserk was appointed deputy director MFA also appointed several new directors: of the Commodity Futures Trading Craig Donohue , chief executive officer, CME Commission’s Market Surveillance Section in Group; William Keunen , director, Citco Fund the Division of Market Oversight. Kuserk, who Services; Frederick Hatfield , former CFTC has been with the CFTC since 1987, has par - Commissioner; and Annette Nazareth , partner, ticipated in technical assistance programs for Davis Polk & Wardwell. The Board elected foreign regulators and has played a role in the following officers: Coes as MFA vice spearheading studies on the CFTC’s oversight chairman; Arthur Bell , managing partner of role and derivatives trading. He succeeded John Arthur F. Bell Certified Public Accountants, Fenton, who recently retired from the agency. as MFA treasurer; and Tracy Wills-Zapata , managing director for institutional business The Securities and Exchange Commission development at Campbell & Company, as named Amy Edwards as assistant chief econo - MFA secretary. mist for markets and intermediaries in the agency’s Office of Economic Analysis. Edwards The World Federation of Exchanges has served as a financial economist at the named William Brodsky , chief executive of the agency since 1997. The SEC also named James Chicago Board Options Exchange, as chair - Eastman as chief counsel and associate director man for a two-year term. In taking the posi - Prominent in the agency’s trading and markets division. tion, Brodsky said a key part of his agenda will Eastman previously served as counsel to SEC be to undertake a study on the disruptions People Chairman . Before that he caused by the restrictions imposed on short served as assistant general counsel at FINRA. selling in numerous markets around the world. By Will Acworth The Managed Funds Association unani - The Securities Industry and Financial mously re-elected Eric Vincent , president of Markets Association said Cory Strupp joined Ospraie Management, to serve another one- its legislative affairs team as managing director. year term as the organization’s chairman. MFA Strupp will report to Michael Paese , SIFMA’s also elected seven new directors for two-year executive vice president of global advocacy. terms: Putnam Coes , chief operating officer, Strupp served from 2004 to 2006 as the deputy Paulson & Co.; Samuel Cole , chief operating director and general counsel for the Bankers officer, BlueMountain Capital Management; Association for Finance and Trade, an affiliate Mark Horowitz , chief operating officer and of the American Bankers Association. general counsel, Glenview Capital Management; Scott Lawin , managing director, Neil Wolkoff has been appointed as chief Fortress Investment Group; Jeffrey Lomasky , executive officer of ELX Electronic Liquidity chief financial officer, Cerberus Capital Exchange, the futures exchange being formed Management; John MacFarlane , chief operat - by several large banks and financial institu - ing officer, Tudor Investment Corporation; tions. Wolkoff previously was chairman and and Joanne Pace , chief operating officer, chief executive officer of the American Stock Investment Management. Exchange and before that chief operating offi -

58 Futures Industry cer and executive vice president of the New Potemkin , who left the company to become an Prudential Bache Commodities hired York Mercantile Exchange. ELX’s backers con - advisor to the chairman of the Central Bank Theodore Sturiale as a vice president and head sist of Bank of America, Barclays Capital, of the Russian Federation. of North American eCommerce solutions. BGC Partners, Citadel, , Credit Sturiale, who is based in Chicago, previously Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Getco, J.P. The Chicago Climate Exchange appointed worked at Newedge Group. Morgan, Lynch, Peak6-Breakwater and Satish Nandapurkar as president. Nandapurkar, The Royal Bank of Scotland. a former Chicago Mercantile Exchange official, CME Group named Thomas Krabbe as the most recently served as chief executive officer director of corporate finance to direct interna - MF Global named Bernard Dan as chief of Eurex US and U.S. Futures Exchange. tional partnerships and lead the company’s executive officer. Dan joined MF Global in global growth plans. Krabbe most recently June 2008 as North American chief operating The Minneapolis Grain Exchange elected assisted with the acquisition and integration of officer and prior to that he headed the Chicago the following industry representatives to its the Chicago Board of Trade. In addition, Board of Trade. He succeeds Kevin Davis , who board of directors: Scott Cordes of Country Adrienne Seaman was named as CME Group’s resigned after 17 years at the company. Hedging; Scott Hedin of St. Croix commercial and licensing counsel, providing Commodities; Christopher Matzdorf of UBS legal support for the company’s London-based John Mathias , global manager of listed Securities; and Scott Nagel of ADM-Benson subsidiaries. Prior to joining CME, she was a derivatives markets relations at Merrill Lynch, Quinn, a division of Archer Daniels Midland. partner at the law firm Taylor Wedding. In left the firm at the end of September. In early addition, CME named David Emerick to its FX December he will join the Singapore Mer- Brett Paulson has stepped down from his team as associate director, EMEA FX sales. He cantile Exchange, the new commodities mar - position as president and chief operating offi - was most recently a business development ket being established by India’s Financial cer of The Clearing Corporation. Paulson has executive at Reuters in London. Technologies Group. formed a new company called ETM Global that provides strategic advice to executives as The Dubai Mercantile Exchange hired The London Metal Exchange promoted well as project management and technology Greg Collins as chief compliance officer. Diarmuid O’Hegarty to deputy chief executive. consulting services. He also is serving as chief Collins joins the DME from Merrill Lynch, Diarmuid will continue to run the regulation executive officer and a member of the board of where he spent seven years working in senior and compliance activities of the exchange. Avadhi Finance and Technology, a trading compliance roles. software provider. Singapore Exchange’s chief executive offi - cer Hsieh Fu Hua plans to step down pending the selection of a successor. Hsieh joined the In Memoriam exchange in March 2003 after serving as man - aging partner of PrimePartners Group, a The FIA is saddened to report the death of Genevieve “Gini” Singapore-based private equity firm. Orange , a 29 year-old FIA employee who worked closely with the FIA divisions in Chicago and New York. “All of us here at the Konstantin Korishchenko was named presi - FIA were shocked and profoundly saddened at the news of Gini dent of the Moscow Interbank Currency Orange’s untimely death,” said John Damgard, president of the Exchange. He was previously chairman of the FIA. “She was a terrific employee and a wonderful person who exchange’s board and replaced Alexander always came to work with a smile on her face. We all miss her very much.”

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