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Futures, June, 2003

A veteran of small trading firms, Mary M. McDonnell says her new job as president and CEO of Chicago-based proprietary trading house Geneva Trading is a better fit than the management positions she has held at exchanges in recent years.

"I spent 18 years running a trading firm so it's more like coming home to me to come back into this environment. This is kind of where my experience and my heart and soul is," she says.

The last seven years though, McDonnell has worked on big projects for big exchanges. Most recently McDonnell was senior VP at the Chicago Board of Trade. When she worked at the Bermuda Commodities Exchange (BCOE) in 1997-99, her responsibilities included developing, implementing and operating the first Internet-based electronic futures exchange.

"Back then…everybody who did have any sort of electronic exchange…, it was a point to point, it was all dedicated lines. To do something over the Internet was completely cutting edge," McDonnell says.