Scott Gordon is a derivatives industry executive with more than 45 years of financial market experience. He is the former Chairman and long-time Board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and was also a member of various derivatives exchanges.
From 2004-2019 Scott was Chairman and CEO of Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), an independent futures clearing firm , and prior to that led several brokerage and trading firms. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the NFA (National Futures Association, the self-regulatory organization of the futures industry), and also as a Board member of FIA (Futures Industry Association), as well as a Trustee of IFM (Institute for Financial Markets, the industry’s non-partisan, nonprofit educational foundation.)
He currently serves on the Advisory Council of Ascent Technologies Inc., which provides a cloud-based platform using artificial intelligence to help companies digitize and automate their regulatory risk and compliance programs.