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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: exchangeinfo@nymex.com X-To: tana.jones@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Tanya_Jones_June2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: JONES-T X-FileName: tjones.nsf Notice No. 01-98 March 20, 2001 TO: All Exchange Members FROM: Neal Wolkoff, Executive Vice President SUBJECT: NYMEX Holdings, Inc. Chairman of the Board & Board of Directors Results The shareholders of the NYMEX Holdings, Inc., and the New York Mercantile= =20 Exchange, Inc., today elected Vincent Viola by a margin of 476 to 115 as=20 chairman of the board and the following individuals to other positions on t= he=20 Exchange board of directors: Gordon Rutledge, Madeline Boyd, Gary Rizzi, J.= =20 Robert Collins, Kenneth Garland, Robert Steele, and Harley Lippman. A resolution was also passed, by a vote of 469 for and 84 against, to add= =20 three equity holder representative positions to the board. An election for= =20 these positions will be scheduled shortly. Mr. Viola, vice chairman of the Exchange from 1993 to 1996, is the founder= =20 and sole owner of Pioneer Futures, Inc., which is currently a clearing memb= er=20 of both divisions of the New York Mercantile Exchange, and the New York Boa= rd=20 of Trade. Mr. Viola also served on the Exchange board in the at-large=20 category from 1987 to 1990 He is a graduate of the United States Military= =20 Academy at West Point and achieved the rank of major in the United States= =20 Army Reserves. In 1983, he graduated from New York Law School with a juris= =20 doctor degree. In 1988, Mr. Viola formed the First Bank Group which operates community ban= ks=20 in Dallas and the surrounding Texas area. In 1998, he formed MV Technologie= s,=20 a developer of fully integrated electronic platforms for trading futures,= =20 options, equities, and derivatives. Mr. Viola co-founded and was chairman of the National Children=01,s Educati= onal=20 Reform Foundation, which is dedicated to the fundamental reform and=20 improvement of inner-city education with an emphasis on bi-lingual programs= =20 in immigrant communities. Mr. Viola has served on the West Point Fund=20 committee, an arm of the board of trustees which supports academy cadet=20 programs. In 1997, Mr. Viola received a man-of-the-year award from the Eden= =20 School for Autistic Children. In 1998, Mr. Viola was awarded the Ellis Isla= nd=20 Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. In 2000, = he=20 was honored with the community service award from the Futures and Options f= or=20 Kids charitable organization. Mr. Rutledge was elected as the board representative in the floor broker=20 category. Mr. Rutledge, who is co-founder and owner of Onyx Brokerage Inc.,= =20 has been a floor broker on the Exchange since 1981, after working for Merri= ll=20 Lynch as a newswire editor and technical analyst. Prior to starting Onyx, h= e=20 also worked for MercOil and J. Tafaro Brokerage. He serves on the membershi= p,=20 technology, arbitration, adjudication, floor broker advisory, and political= =20 action committees. Mr. Rutledge has a bachelor of arts cum laude from Harva= rd=20 University. Ms. Boyd was elected as the local representative to the board. Ms. Boyd has= =20 been the at-large representative to the board for the past three years and = a=20 member of the executive committee for the past year. She has traded gasolin= e=20 for her own account for more than 16 years. She is has been chairman of the= =20 NYMEX Charitable Foundation since 1992 and is also co-chairman of the local= =20 advisory committee and the petroleum products advisory committee, and a=20 member of the coal advisory committee. She also serves as a director of the= =20 Commodity Floor Brokers and Traders Association and Futures and Options for= =20 Kids and holds a bachelor of science in business from Fairleigh Dickinson= =20 University. Mr. Rizzi was reelected for the third time as a futures commission merchant= =20 (FCM) representative to the board. In addition to serving on the board for= =20 the past six years, Mr. Rizzi has served two terms on the executive=20 committee, including the past year. He has been a member of the floor=20 community for 22 years. After working for Dean Witter for a year as a clerk= ,=20 Mr. Rizzi joined A.G. Edwards and became floor manager in 1982. He has been= =20 an officer of the company and a conferring member of the Exchange for 17=20 years. He is also a member of the COMEX Division and both divisions of the= =20 New York Board of Trade. He is the chairman of the membership, FCM advisory= ,=20 and technology committees and vice chairman of the facilities committee. J. Robert (Bo) Collins, Jr., ran unopposed to fill the trade slot. Mr.=20 Collins is senior vice president of natural gas trading at El Paso Merchant= =20 Energy, a division of El Paso Energy Corporation, the largest pipeline=20 operator and the third largest producer of natural gas in North America. Mr= .=20 Collins directs the natural gas derivatives portfolio. Before joining El Pa= so=20 in 1997, Mr. Collins was a natural gas and crude oil options market-maker= =20 with Pioneer Futures on the Exchange trading floor. A graduate of Texas A&M= =20 University, his first professional experience was in commercial banking wit= h=20 the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Mr. Collins has been a member of the Exchange since 1995 and has served on= =20 the options advisory committee since 1996. Mr. Garland was elected to his first term as the at-large representative to= =20 the board. After receiving a masters degree in audiology from Long Island= =20 University, Mr. Garland worked as a private and industrial audiologist for= =20 eight years. He began trading at the New York Mercantile Exchange for his o= wn=20 account in 1981. In 1982 and 1983, he also acted as a floor broker. Since= =20 purchasing his seat in 1983, he has exclusively traded for his own account,= =20 concentrating most of his time in the gasoline ring. He is vice chairman of= =20 the Exchange floor and settlement committees; panel chairman on the=20 arbitration and adjudication committees; and also serves on the following= =20 committees: membership; local advisory; and petroleum product advisory. Mr= =20 Garland was also recommended by the Exchange in 1994 to represent it on the= =20 National Futures Association membership appeals subcommittee, a position he= =20 continues to hold to this day. Mr. Steele and Mr. Lippman were elected to three-year terms as public=20 directors of the Exchange. Prior to the Exchange=01,s demutualization in=20 November 2000, the public directors were appointed by the board and served= =20 two year terms. Mr. Steele served as a public director of the Exchange from 1988 to 1994, a= nd=20 was re-appointed to the board in 1999. He is vice chairman of John Ryan=20 Company, an international financial services marketing firm, and is directo= r=20 of the Merlin Retail Financial Center in Stamford, Conn. He previously serv= ed=20 as president and chief executive officer of the Norwich (CT) Savings Societ= y=20 from 1975 to 1981, and as president and chief executive officer of Dollar D= ry=20 Dock Bank of New York from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Steele was a U.S. congressman (Second District, Conn) from 1970 to 1974= ,=20 and was the Republican candidate for governor of Connecticut in 1974. While= =20 in Congress , he served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was the=20 ranking minority member of the Latin American subcommittee, and chaired or= =20 co-chaired Congressional task forces on international drug trafficking and= =20 problems of the aging. Following Congress, he was appointed chairman of the= =20 Social Security committee of the White House conference on aging. In additi= on=20 to the Exchange, Mr. Steele serves on the board of directors of SmartServ= =20 Online (web and wireless transaction platform services provider), Scan=20 Optics, Inc. (document processing systems and information management=20 solutions), and NLC Insurance Companies. He is also chairman of the board o= f=20 Moore Medical Corp. He served as a Soviet affairs specialist in the Central= =20 Intelligence Agency from 1963 to 1968. He was a visiting lecturer in=20 government at the United! S! tates Coast Guard Academy and is the recipient of an honorary doctor of law= s=20 degree from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Mr. Lippman is a major contributor to Feed The Children, sponsoring their= =20 Christmas event in Harlem in December 2000. He also serves on the advisory= =20 board of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs= .=20 He is a member of the Information Technology Association of America and a= =20 former trustee of The Washington Institute. He is also active politically a= s=20 a fund-raiser for both the Republican and Democratic parties, including=20 hosting fund-raising events at his home. Last week, Michael Devaney was elected to replace John Moore as chairman of= =20 the COMEX governors committee, a two-year term in which he will head the=20 committee which advises the board on matters uniquely pertinent to COMEX=20 Division members. In that capacity he will attend all Exchange board meetin= gs=20 to represent the views of the COMEX Division members. Mr. Devaney has served as vice chairman of the COMEX governors committee fo= r=20 the past two-and-a-half years; has served on the governors committee since= =20 1994; and has been a member of the Exchange since 1985. He is the owner of= =20 Great Lakes, Inc., an independent floor brokerage operation, and has served= =20 on the Exchange membership, floor, facilities, business conduct, compliance= =20 review, marketing, margin, political action, and rules committees. Editor=01,s note: There will be a press luncheon to meet Mr. Viola at 1:30 = PM,=20 Wednesday, March 21, on the 10th floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange= =20 headquarters, One North End Avenue. __________________________________________________ Please click on the link below to indicate you have received this email. 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