The Index Industry Association (IIA) is the global trade association for the index industry.

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.

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.

Head of Indices, ICE Data Indices

Phil Galdi is Head of Indices at ICE Data Indices, LLC (“IDI”). In this role, he is responsible for IDI’s fixed income, equity, commodity and currency index families spanning the global markets. Prior to joining ICE, Phil was Head of Global Bond Index Research at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research where he spent over 30 years developing and managing their fixed income, commodity and currency index platform that was recently acquired by ICE. The ICE Data Indices team manages a suite of thousands of indices across all asset classes that are used as performance benchmarks for approximately $1 trillion in assets, including over $200 billion in passive ETFs and funds. The team also provides custom index services and acts as calculation agent for third party indices. In addition, ICE Data Indices is a leading provider of IOPV and IIV calculations for ETFs around the world.