Mr. Rappaport served as Chairman of the Board/CEO of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) from 1993 through March 2001. Mr. Rappaport also served as a member of the Board of NYMEX from May 2006 through August 2008 where he participated in the process that led to an IPO that valued NYMEX at approximately twelve billion dollars. As a NYMEX board member, Mr. Rappaport was also involved in the negotiations that resulted in the acquisition of NYMEX by the CME Group. Mr. Rappaport served as an independent director on the board of GreenX and was Chairman of the Regulatory Oversight Committee. Mr. Rappaport was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to serve as a member of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) and he was also appointed to serve as a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee. He served as a board member of the Futures Industry Institute, a trustee on the Board of Trustees of New York Law School, and as an appointment of the Governor of the State of Connecticut on the board of directors of Connecticut Innovations. Mr. Rappaport is a graduate of New York Law School and is licensed to practice law in the State of New York. He also holds an MBA from Baruch College and is a graduate of Syracuse University.