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Patrick J. Kenny Occupation Senior Vice President, Client Relations Employer CQG Location Chicago LinkedIn Profile Patrick J. Kenny is an American financial technology and derivatives industry executive and political leader, serving as senior vice president of client relations at CQG, a leading provider of financial market data and trading platforms. In addition to his work at CQG, Kenny serves as chairman of the Association of Futures Markets (AFM). He also serves as the president of Fontana, Wisconsin, a community on the west end of Geneva Lake. Kenny serves as a trustee for Futures For Kids, a London-based foundation which supports children's charities around the world. Background Kenny grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent his summers in Fontana, Wisconsin, where his family owned a home. Among the nearby summer residents was Terry Duffy, who became his best friend. While in college, the two tended bar together at Chuck’s Lakeside Inn, a popular weekend gathering spot for Chicago traders with summer homes around the lake. Kenny and Duffy found their way to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange through a Chuck’s patron, Vincent Schreiber, who was also a friend of Kenny’s older brother. RB&H hired the two, though Kenny’s tenure would be short-lived. When Kenny’s brother Mike, a Chicago policeman, learned he was working at the CME, he quipped that as a West Side Oak Park guy, Pat was supposed to work at the Chicago Board of Trade—not the Merc. Kenny approached another Geneva Lake futures contact, George Forebeck, and secured a new job with Geldermann as a runner at the CBOT. After graduating from college, St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1980, Kenny accepted a full-time job with Geldermann. He became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1983 and has maintained his trading rights under the CME Group ownership of the CBOT. Kenny worked in institutional sales at Geldermann and Harris Bank. He later held senior positions in institutional sales with Prudential Securities and ABN Amro. Kenny left the trading floor in 2000 to join Patsystems, a pioneering electronic trading independent software vendor, the first one to be a publicly listed company. He served as an officer and managing director in Chicago, helping to expand the London-based company's services to U.S. brokerages and banks. In 2010, Kenny joined CQG as a vice president, bringing CQG a high-profile industry leader and market advocate to promote its growing electronic trading business. Kenny has served on the board of advisors of OptionsCity, now part of Exegy through its acquisition of Vela, which had bought OptionsCity. In January of 2018, Kenny was elected as the chairman of the Association of Futures Markets board of directors during its 21st Annual Conference organized in Bangkok. Since then he has been re-elected every two-years. He is the longest-serving chairman of the organization, surpassing Chris Sturgess, director of commodity derivatives at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, who served for five years. Kenny was appointed to the village board of Fontana, Wisconsin in October of 2007, and has been re-elected since 2008 every two years. In 2015, Kenny was elected village president of Fontana and he continues to serve in that position, making him the longest serving village president. In March of 2012, John Lothian wrote a commentary that referred to Kenny as "The Most Interesting Man in the World." Education He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, graduating in 1980. Photos Leo Melamed Presenting Pat Kenny with a copy of his latest book Pat Kenny dropping the raffle tickets on the stage during the IDX Gala AFM Chairman Pat Kenny in Nairobi with the AFM Pat Kenny wearing a tuxedo to the AFM gala dinner in 2012 in Istanbul and being given the title "Most Interesting Man in the World" by John Lothian Kilt Challenge Participant Pat Kenny and John Lothian at the 2024 IDX Gala Pat Kenny and Journalist Jeremy Grant at LME Dinner in London Pat Kenny Presenting at the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity in Chicago Pat Kenny at Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul Fontana, Wisconsin Village President Pat Kenny Cutting a Ribbon Pat Kenny in a London Pub with CQG Colleagues Pat Kenny on a street in London Pat Kenny on a back street in London Video MarketsWiki Education Videos Kenny participated in MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity in Chicago in 2015. Kenny participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in Chicago in 2017 at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech. JLN News Interviews CQG CEO Outlines Financial Market "Ecosystem" Strategy at FIA Boca CQG Executives Discuss AI Integration and Future Plans at FIA Conference Taking the Chinese Connectivity Plunge – Ryan Moroney and Pat Kenny, CQG Pat Kenny, the "Most Interesting Man," in Interesting Times References

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