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,...
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