Mr. Gorham is Industry Professor and Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Gorham serves on the boards of two exchanges – the CBOE Futures Exchange in Chicago and the National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange in Mumbai, India. In addition, he sits on various committees of the CME, NFA, FIA and GARP, the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Before IIT, Mr. Gorham spent four years as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and 18 years in product development and marketing at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.