Leo Melamed: Escape to the Futures

LEO MELAMED is Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago MercantileExchange. Under his twenty-five years of leadership, the CME wastransformed into the world's foremost financial futuresmarketplace. He is recognized as the founder of the concept offinancial futures, and introduced foreign currency futures in 1972with the launching of the International Monetary Market (IMM).Melamed is an active futures trader and Chairman and CEO of SakuraDellsher, Inc., a global futures organization. Melamed is a councilmember of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Director of theNational Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow of theInternational Association of Financial Engineers. He lives inChicago.

BOB TAMARKIN is an award-winning journalist who has been aninvestigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the ChicagoDaily News. He has also been a reporter for the Wall StreetJournal, and Senior Editor and Midwest Bureau Chief for Forbes. Heis the author of The New Gatsbys and The Merc, and his work hasappeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, the Los AngelesTimes, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among many otherpublications. Mr. Tamarkin lives in Chicago.