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WilderHill Clean Energy Index

The WilderHill Clean Energy Index is a modified equal dollar-weighted index that tracks publicly traded companies whose businesses stand to benefit substantially from societal transition toward alternative energies such as wind, solar, ethanol and hydrogen fuel cells. Stocks and sector weightings within the Clean Energy Index are selected based on their contribution towards the development of clean energy in an ecologically and economically sensible way. As of the third quarter of 2007, the Index components included 42 stocks of U.S. listed companies, most of which have a market capitalization greater than $200 million. The Index is calculated by the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and disseminated through the Network of the Consolidated Tape Association. The Clean Energy Index was created by and is a trademark of WilderShares, LLC. 
The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange ECO Index futures contract based on the WilderHill Clean Energy Index offers market participants access to alternative energy and clean technology stocks in a diversified fashion. 
== References ==
Category:Exchanges
Category:Futures Exchanges
Category:Futures Contracts Traded on CCFE
Category:Emissions Futures Contracts
Wiley M. Egan

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Wiley M. Egan was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as its president in 1867.
== Background ==
He was born in Ballston, New York on August 1, 1827 and was the son of William Egan and Mary (MacDonald) Egan and the husband of Mary (Helm) Egan. His parents were farmers in New York, who brought Wiley to Chicago on October 9, 1836, a year before Chicago was incorporated. 
From 1942 to 1953, Egan was a sailor and master and owned and built many inland ships. Starting in 1852, Egan was prominent in lake shipping chartered vessels carrying grain to ports in the Great Lakes and Buffalo. At one point he owned 25 vessels. 
He was elected to the presidency of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1867. The officers and directors elected with him in 1867 included: First Vice-President, Lyman Blair; Second VicePresident, C. B. Goodyear; Secretary, John F. Beaty; Treasurer,
Geo. F. Rumsey. Directors, term expiring 1868: J. H. Dole, H. A. Towner, H. Botsford, T. H. Seymour, H. C. Ranney. Directors, term expiring 1869: W. E. Richardson, W. H. Lunt, S. H. McCrea, G. M. How and George Field. Commercial Committee : J. C. Dow, H. C. Ranney, Charles Randolph, R. McChesney, W. D. Houghteling, W. T. Coolbaugh, J. L. Hancock, J. M. Douglass, P. W. Gates, S. Clement, W. E. Doggett, Nathan Mears, J. V. Farwell, W. R. Gould, R. Prindiville, Ira Y. Munn, Wm. Blair, S. Clary, T. B. Sidway, N. K. Fairbank, P. Wadsworth and S. M. Nickerson.
When he died in 1903 at the age of 72, he was the oldest living ex-president of the exchange. He died of heart disease in his home in Chicago at 444 Dearborn Avenue. 
Egan was also involved in the insurance business, including the Corn Exchange, the Mercantile Mutual of New York, the Boston Marine of Detroit, the Mercantile of Cleveland and the Buffalo of Buffalo, New York.
Egan was a Master Mason and a lodge in Chicago was named for him.
== References ==	
Category:Deceased
Category:CBOT Members
Category:Former CBOT Officials
Category:Presidents of the Chicago Board of Trade
Will Acworth

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Will Acworth is the editor-in-chief of MarketVoice, previously known as Futures Industry Magazine, a publication of the Futures Industry Association (FIA). Acworth is also the senior vice president of publications, data & research for the Futures Industry Association. 
== Background ==
Acworth has been editor of Futures Industry since 2001. From 1995 to 2001, he worked as a reporter at KnightRidder Financial and its successor Bridge News. From 1995 to 2000 he was based in Washington, D.C., where he covered banking, securities, derivatives, economic indicators and international trade issues. From 2000 to 2001, he was based in Madrid, Spain, and covered financial and economic news.
From 1991 to 1995, he was editor of International Banking Regulator, a weekly newsletter published by Thomson Financial.
== Education ==
Acworth has a Masters Degree in African Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelors Degree in History from Yale University. 
== Published Works ==
*Credit Derivatives Market Moves Closer to Clearing Solution (July 2008)
*FCM Perspective on Futures Industry Trends (May 2008)
*Blueprint For Reform: Paulson Puts SEC-CFTC Merger on Agenda (Jan 2008)
*Algorithmic Trading: Seeking an Edge (July 2007)
*The Many Flavors of OTC Clearing (June/July 2009)
== John Lothian News Articles ==
*What's Trendy? Shining a Light on 2018 Derivatives Volumes and Open Interest (February 2019)
== External Links ==
*Futures Industry Association
*Futures Industry Magazine
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Futures Industry Association
Category:Knight Ridder - Former Employees
Category:Knight Ridder
Category:Bridge News - Former Employees
Category:Bridge News
Will Easley

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Will Easley is a managing director at Aragon Solutions Ltd.
He is also the vice chairman of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), which commenced trading in February of 2004. 
== Background ==
William Easley has been with BOX since its inception, joining as project manager in September 2001. He began serving as an interim CEO when previous CEO Scott Morris stepped down. Easley implemented BOX's make or take pricing model and has added enhancements to the exchange's best execution and price improvement operations.
Prior to that, he worked as a consultant for the Montreal Exchange (2000-01) and Euronext SA in Paris (1997-2000), concentrating on the transfer of floor-based markets to an automated trading environment in Asia, South America and Canada as well as Europe.
From 1987 until 1996, he ran an options market making and index arbitrage group in Paris, trading primarily on the Monep and Matif. In previous lives, he worked as an internal auditor and commercial artist.
== Education ==
He holds an MBA in finance and marketing from McGill University (Montreal) and a BA in political science and history from Vanderbilt University (Nashville). 
== John Lothian News Interview ==
*Five Minutes With Will Easley - May 2009
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Boston Options Exchange
Category:Auditors
Will Hill

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Will Hill is the president of the Flax Council of Canada.
He was president of ICE Futures Canada from 2003 to 2008. Hill announced in February of 2008 that he would leave his post as president the exchange for personal reasons.Hill said would stay in his role at ICE Futures until his replacement, Brad Vannan, would take over in April of 2008.
== Background ==
A former senior executive at two large Canadian grain companies, Hill joined theWinnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) in 2003 as a senior vice-president. WCE was later renamed ICE Futures Canada when it was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) in 2007. 
Hill replaced former WCE president and CEO Mike Gagne who retired when ICE, completed the transaction to acquire Winnipeg Holdings Inc., the holding company for WCE on Aug. 28, 2007.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:ICE Futures Canada
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:InterContinentalExchange - Former Employees
Category:InterContinentalExchange
Category:Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
Category:Winnipeg Commodity Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Flax Council of Canada
Will Rhode

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Will Rhode is the director of fixed income at financial markets research firm TABB Group. He was appointed to the position in March 2012 and is responsible for examining trading, and operational/technology issues surrounding swaps, corporate bonds, sovereign debt, and other credit and rate derivatives in North America, Europe and Asia.
== Background ==
Rhode has been with the TABB Group since March 2010, where he started as an analyst. Prior to that, Rhode was a financial journalist, reporting on risk management and the derivatives industry. He worked as the editor (Americas) of Risk Magazine in New York and as the editor of AsiaRisk Magazine in Hong Kong. Rhode has also published three novels.
== Education ==
*B.A., Political Science, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
== References ==	
Category:TABB Group
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Authors
Will Simmerson

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Will Simmerson is associate general counsel at the Commodity Markets Council. He joined the CMC in that role in June of 2017. He previously worked in a number of Washington, D.C-based organizations both before and during law school. 
== Background ==
Before attending law school, Simmerson worked for more than two years as a paralegal for the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section. As a paralegal, he assisted DOJ prosecutors and Assistant U.S. Attorneys in prosecuting multimillion dollar FCPA and securities criminal fraud cases.
 
After his first year of law school, he participated in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Student Honors Law Clerk Program in its Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. In conjunction with this internship, he received the A. Paul Knight Internship Program Award from Washington and Lee School of Law. During his second summer of law school, he worked as a legal intern for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Office of General Counsel, where he helped provide assistance to local, state, and federal prosecutors targeting financial fraud crimes and violations of SEC regulations. 
In his final year of law school, Simmerson interned in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement, Division of Investigations (FERC), where he helped attorneys respond to alleged cases of electric and natural gas energy market manipulation and helped investigate potential tariff violations.
 
== Education ==
Simmerson received his Bachelor of Science in 2011 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a double major in Political Science and American History. He received his Juris Doctor in 2017 from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he served as a lead articles editor for the Washington and Lee Law Review. 
== References ==
Willard Butcher

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Willard Butcher was a former Chase Manhattan Bank executive. He passed away at the age of 85 in August of 2012.
== Background ==
Butcher was named Chase president and chief operating officer in 1972. He succeeded David Rockefeller as chairman and CEO in 1980 and retired in 1991. Under the two men, Chase expanded to more than 50 countries. In 2000, the bank merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. to become JPMorgan Chase.
In 1947, Butcher joined Chase National Bank, a forerunner to Chase Manhattan, and later headed retail and corporate business for Midtown Manhattan. Moving to Chase’s international department in 1969, Butcher oversaw operations in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and eventually took broader roles, including a stint as the firm’s vice-chairman for worldwide planning, expansion and diversification.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Deceased
William "Bill" Edward Harrington, III (Advantage Futures) - Deceased

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William "Bill" Edward Harrington, III (April 10, 1965 - June 14, 2024) was an American financial executive and one of the founding partners of Advantage Futures LLC, a futures commission merchant based in Chicago, Illinois. He served as the executive vice president and business development manager at the firm until his passing in 2024.
== Early Life and Education ==
Harrington earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1987.
== Career ==
=== Early Career ===
Harrington began his career in the futures industry immediately after graduating, moving to Chicago in 1987. He started as a runner on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and quickly advanced to become a talented salesman and member of the exchange with a valuable book of client business.
His career in the financial industry formally began with Merrill Lynch Futures in 1987, where he worked until 1995. He then joined Fuji Securities (later Mizuho Securities USA) as Vice President of Institutional Sales, working closely with large institutional accounts and focusing on interest rate, foreign currency, and equity futures and options trading.
Advantage Futures
In 2003, Harrington became one of the founding partners of Advantage Futures. Notably, he is credited with coming up with the name "Advantage Futures" for the new firm. He joined the company officially in January 2004, shortly after its founding.
At Advantage Futures, Harrington played a key role in the firm's growth and client relationships. His responsibilities included:
* Overseeing business development strategies
* Managing institutional client relationships
* Coordinating sales efforts across the firm's various departments
In 2008, Harrington was promoted to the role of executive vice president, sales manager, a new position at the time. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing, managing, and coordinating all of the firm's sales activities, including those of the Professional Trader Group, Business Development, Institutional Sales, Value-Added Sales, and the 24-Hour Global Execution Desk.
== Personal Life and Legacy ==
Throughout his career, Harrington maintained close relationships with colleagues in the industry. He was part of a group of six close friends who worked together for 37 years across different firms, with the last 20 years being at Advantage Futures.
Harrington passed away on June 14, 2023, after a three-month battle with bile duct cancer.
== References ==	
Category:Advantage Futures
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Deceased
Category:Deceased Industry Executives
Category:Futures Brokers
Category:University of Notre Dame Alumni
Category:1965 Births
Category:2023 Deaths
William "Billy" Buchanan Dunavant Jr.

William "Billy" Buchanan Dunavant Jr. was the former chief executive of Dunavant Enterprises, a cotton trader. He died on September 11, 2021 at the age of 81. 
== Biography ==
Dunavant's successful career in the cotton business was tied intimately to the growth and development of the New York Board of Trade and its predecessor, the New York Cotton Exchange. 
Born into a family with deep roots in the cotton business, he took control of Dunavant Enterprises in 1961 at the age of 29 and transformed it into a global powerhouse in the buying and selling of cotton. Under his leadership, the Memphis-based company was one of the first to go into forward contracting, whereby a farmer can lock in a price before he plants his cotton. W. B. Dunavant and Company also participated in the first U.S. sale of cotton to Mainland China in November 1972. 
Dunavant served on the board of the NYBOT and the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE) for 35 years. He stepped down as chief executive of Dunavant Enterprises in 2005. Dunavant was also mentor to one of the industry’s most successful traders, Paul Tudor Jones.
In 2007, Dunavant was inducted into the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community.
== References ==	
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:Deceased
William (Bill) H. Gates

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William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation. On June 15, 2006, Microsoft announced that effective July 2008 Gates would transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2009, Gates regained his title as the world's richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months.
In late June of 2009, Warren Buffett reportedly said that Gates’ charity, to which Buffett pledged most of his fortune, is best able to put his money to good use. 
== Background ==
After July 2008, Gates continued to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on development projects. Effective June 2006, Ray Ozzie assumed Gates’ previous title as chief software architect and began to work side by side with Gates on technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities at Microsoft. 
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Philanthropists
William (Billy) Hult

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William (Billy) Hult became the chief executive officer of Tradeweb Markets on January 1, 2023. He was previously president and head of U.S. operations for the company, starting in 2008. He continues to be on the board of directors. 
He joined Tradeweb in 2000 and has been responsible for growing several successful Tradeweb markets.
Hult also sits on the board of directors for Boys Hope Girls Hope New York and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. 
He was ranked 23rd on Institutional Investor's Trading Technology 40 in 2013. In March of 2024, he was named to Crain's New York Business' list of 2024 Notable Leaders in Finance.
== Background ==
Before joining Tradeweb, Hult held a variety of trading positions with the French investment bank Societe Generale. 
After joining Tradeweb, he played a pivotal role in Tradeweb’s evolution as a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. He spearheaded the development of mortgages and wholesale electronic trading, and in 2007 worked with the dealers and Thomson Reuters to create a historic partnership to grow online trading. 
He was instrumental in numerous Tradeweb acquisitions, including Hilliard Farber (2008), Rafferty Capital Markets (2011), J.J. Kenny Drake (2011) and Nasdaq’s former eSpeed platform for electronic bond trading (2021). In 2008 he took responsibility for dealerweb, Tradeweb’s inter-dealer business, following the acquisition of Hilliard Farber. He then was responsible for launching Tradeweb’s first inter-dealer electronic trading platform.
== Education ==
Hult is a graduate of Denison University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Tradeweb
Category:Tradeweb presidents
Category:Tradeweb CEOs
William A. Osborn

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William (Bill) Osborn is the former Chairman, CEO and President of the Northern Trust Company and the former Executive Chairman of the Northern Trust Corp.. He retired from his posts and ended a four decade run at Northern Trust in November of 2009. He holds various board positions at companies such as; Abbott Laboratories, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago , Nicor Inc., and the Tribune Co. 
== Background ==
Osborn served as the CEO and COO of the Northern Trust Corp. until 2007. Prior to that he was a director at the Chicago Clearing House Association and a director at the Northern Illinois Gas Company.
== Education ==
Osborn received a Bachelors of Arts and an MBA from Northwestern University. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Northern Trust Company
William A. Porter

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William A. Porter was the founder, former chief executive officer, chairman emeritus, and board member of E*TRADE Financial Corp., a financial services firm that combines brokerage, banking and lending. Porter also was a founder (with Marty Averbuch, David Krell and Gary Katz) of the International Securities Exchange, founded in 2000. He also served on its board of directors and executive committee, and was its first board chairman. He died on October 14, 2015, at the age of 86.
In the photo at right, taken in 2005, Porter is being presented with the Billy Adams Award at Adams State College in Colorado. The Billy Adams Award recognizes those committed to Adams State College and its continual growth. Porter and his wife, Joan, donated 250,000 shares in E*TRADE Financial Corp, stock to the Adams State College Foundation. Valued at approximately $5.8 million, this gift brought the foundation's endowment to a total of $14.3 million. 
Porter donated $4.6 million worth of stock in E*TRADE to Adams State College, primarily to improve computer inter-connectivity. He also donated large portions of his fortune to businesses and nonprofits benefiting organic farming, recreation and community building on the north shore of Kauai, the Hawaiian island where he lived.
He is the subject of the book Ten Things I Learned from Bill Porter, written by Shelly Brady, Porter's former assistant.
== History ==
During World War II, Porter dropped out of high school to join the Navy but was expelled when it came out that he was only 16. He re-enlisted as soon as he was old enough and served a tour of duty. He completed his undergraduate degree in three years while working nights as a crew dispatcher on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, going on to work at the National Bureau of Standards, General Electric and Textron Corporation. He also worked on top secret military projects, he told CNN. 
Before founding E*Trade, he held numerous senior management positions, including chairman of Trelleborg Rubber Company; president of Tretorn Shoes; and president of Commercial Electronics Inc.
Porter served as E*Trade Group Inc.'s president until October 1993 and CEO, CFO, treasurer and secretary until March 1996. He was the founder of Trade*Plus (subsequently named E*TRADE Group Inc.), serving as chairman of the board from E*Trade Group Inc.'s inception until December 1998. He also founded E*TRADE Securities, Inc. in 1992.
== Achievements ==
Porter held 14 patents, having developed a number of electronic devices and processes. These include the first shoulder-mounted backpack broadcast color TV camera; the first electronic diesel-electric locomotive check-out system; the first infrared horizon sensor for satellite stabilization and several other breakthroughs still in use today in a variety of fields.
== Education ==
Porter has a B.A. from Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, an M.S. in Physics from Kansas State University, and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow.
== References ==	
Category:Financial Industry Innovators
William A. Strauss

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William A. Strauss is a senior economist and economic advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.Strauss joined the Chicago Fed in 1982. 
At the Chicago Fed he produces the monthly Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index and organizes the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium and the Chicago Fed's annual Auto Outlook Symposium. 
Strauss also conducts economic workshops and industrial roundtables. In recent days, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies and at DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. He currently serves as a board member for the National Association for Business Economics and as a member of the advisory council for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Economic Education.
Strauss is often interviewed by media outlets on the economy and Federal Reserve. His research paper topics have included analysis of the manufacturing sector, the Midwest regional economy, the trade-weighted dollar, the auto sector, business cycles and Federal Reserve payments operations.
== Examples Of Research Papers ==
*A Regional Export-Weighted Dollar: A Different Way Of Looking At Exchange Rate Changes, Jack L. Hervey and William A. Strauss
*Foreign Growth, The Dollar, And Regional Economies, 1970-97, Jack L. Hervey and William A. Strauss
*The International Value Of The Dollar: An Inflation-Adjusted Index, Jack L. Hervey and William A. Strauss
== Background ==
Strauss has taught as an adjunct faculty member at both Loyola University Chicago and Webster University, Chicago. He is a past president of the Chicago Association of Business Economists.
== Education ==
Strauss earned a B.A. in economics and geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.A. in economics from Northwestern University. 
== Resources ==
*Video: "Manufacturing Sector Thrives While Consumers Suffer"
== References ==
Category:Economists
Category:Federal Reserve System