CEO, Index Industry Association

email: r.redding@indexindustry.org

Rick spent most of his career in senior leadership roles with The CME Group (“CME”), a leading provider of benchmark futures and options products and an innovator in futures trading. Rick held the post of Managing Director, Products and Services at CME. In this role he led global sales, product development, and strategic global growth initiatives. He played an integral part in the transition of CME’s ownership stake in Dow Jones Indexes to the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture. He also held senior positions in CME’s index products division.

Alex Matturri is chief executive officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices, responsible for all aspects of the index business globally. S&P Dow Jones Indices offers investment professionals around the world an array of products from efficiently representative indices to broad comprehensive benchmarks.

Previously, Alex was senior vice president and director of Global Equity Index Management at Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI). There, he was responsible for all facets of passive equity portfolio management and trading, overseeing a $185 billion passive investment business for the world’s third-largest quantitative manager. In addition to leading investment teams in the U.S., Europe and Asia, Alex was a driver for the global expansion of the passive investment business across all regions. Alex joined NTGI in 2003 with the company’s acquisition of Deutsche Asset Management’s Index and Quantitative Investment business. At Deutsche, he served as director and senior index investment strategist.

From 1987 until joining Deutsche in 2000, Alex served as vice president and division head at The Bank of New York where he managed the Special Investment Products group which provided investment management, product development, and trading for equity derivatives and quantitative strategies. Alex was a pioneer in the use of equity derivatives and exchange traded funds in institutional and high-net-worth portfolios. In 1993 Alex started The Bank of New York’s transition management business which was one of the first providers of portfolio transition and asset reallocation services. His experience before The Bank of New York included roles as a risk arbitrage analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and security analyst at First Fidelity Bank.

Alex is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is admitted as an attorney in New York and New Jersey. He is also a member of the CFA Institute and The New York Society of Security Analysts. Alex holds a BS in finance with honors from Lehigh University and a JD from Syracuse University College of Law.

COO, CRSP

Dave is CRSP’s first non-academic director and has served as chief operating officer since 1998. Under his tenure, CRSP has expanded its product base beyond historic financial databases and academic indexes with the introduction of investible indexes in 2012. CRSP’s research client base now includes approximately 500 academic institutions and 100 commercial and governmental entities in over 35 countries. CRSP investible indexes and related data are now licensed to Vanguard for 16 of their domestic funds, to a significant list of broker dealers to support their market-making activities, and to consultants and institutions using them for consulting and for research and to benchmark investment performance. At this time Vanguard has approximately $1.25 trillion invested tracking CRSP indexes.

Dave previously served as an Executive Vice President at Heitman Financial, Ltd, and held official positions at Harris Bank, and the Northern Trust Company. Dave earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Chicago Booth) in 1970, and received his BS in Physics from Stanford University. Outside of CRSP he is CEO of two family agribusinesses that raise corn and soybeans, and he collects antique cars.