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James E. Newsome

Dr. Newsome has been president of the NYMEX Holdings, Inc. and New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. since August 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since U.S. Senate confirmation in December 2001. He was a commissioner of the CFTC from August 1998. During his CFTC tenure, Dr. Newsome served as chairman of both the technology and the agricultural advisory committees. In addition to his responsibilities at the CFTC, Dr. Newsome served as a member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets along with the secretary of the Treasury, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. More recently, he was appointed to serve on the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force to coordinate corporate fraud investigations.