WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Cboe Global Markets, Inc., has announced his intention to retire after thirty-eight years of dedicated service to the company, and
WHEREAS, the Chicago City Council has been informed of his decision by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean is a native Chicagoan who grew up in the St. Thomas More Parish on the South Side; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean graduated from St. Laurence High School in Burbank; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean received his B.S. degree in Accounting from Western Illinois University and his M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean, a Certified Public Accountant, served as a staff accountant for the American Osteopathic Association from 1976-1979 joined the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1979 as a staff accountant; and
WHEREAS, demonstrating great skill and superior business acumen, Alan J. Dean advanced quickly through the ranks of upper management, becoming an accounting manager, assistant controller to assistant vice president and controller; and
WHEREAS, in 1988 Alan J. Dean was promoted into his current position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Chicago Board Options Exchange; and
WHEREAS, in this capacity Alan J. Dean assumed responsibility for all Chicago Board Options Exchange financial activities, investor relations, market data services, human resources facilities and office services; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean played an integral role in Cboe Global Offerings' successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) that contributed to its rise as an S&P 500 large cap company maintained by the Dow Jones S&P Indices; and
WHEREAS, Alan J. Dean helped spearhead Cboe Global Offerings' March 2017 acquisition of Bats Global Markets, a global stock exchange operator based in Lenexa, Kansas, including leadership of related debt financing; and
WHEREAS, in the non-profit world, Alan J. Dean serves on the board of directors of LifeSource, supplying blood products to 94 per cent of Chicago area hospitals, and is a member of the Economic Development Commission of Tinley Park, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, in addition, Alan J. Dean serves as a board member of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine specializing in transfusion medicine, providing services with diagnostics, consultative and educational support for patients and physicians; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council assembled this thirteenth day of December, 2017, congratulate Alan J. Dean on his retirement and do hereby proclaim December 18,'2017 as "Alan J. Dean Day" in Chicago, and we wish him, his wife Jeany, and their children Chris, Kim, Eric and Melissa the very best as he begins the next phase of his life; and