Andrew Vrabel Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I proudly lead a 150-person team of analysts, investigators, data scientists, attorneys, and rules experts who are responsible for conducting market surveillance to prevent and detect manipulations, investigating trade practice abuses, conducting data integrity audits, delivering technical regulatory solutions, building advanced analytical frameworks, bringing enforcement actions for rule violations, and providing rules guidance and global regulatory outreach. Our collective objective is to preserve the integrity of CME Group’s markets and ensure the organization satisfies its self-regulatory obligations. We are in Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul but interact with regulators and market participants across the globe.

Greater Chicago Area

I led a team of brilliant people, experts in the domains of abusive and disruptive trading practices, audit trails, automated and algorithmic trading, HFT strategies, and market event reconstructions. They shared my goal of protecting the integrity of trading on all exchange markets while ensuring compliance with the related Commodity Exchange Act core principles for designated contract markets.

I supported the technology and global operations divisions in regulatory reviews and audits, including System Safeguard Examinations by the CFTC and Automation Review Policy reviews by the SEC. I further supported the company's business line management on strategic initiatives, particularly those impacted by legislative and regulatory proposals.

Greater Chicago Area

I served the Chief Executive Officer and later the Chief Operating Officer in a selective transitional role designed to provide support, consultation, and critical analysis to the officers on key strategic initiatives and projects with an emphasis on regulatory-based matters.

I led a team of enforcement attorneys in carrying out CME Group’s statutory and regulatory obligations to promptly and effectively enforce disciplinary procedures against individuals and entities that violated exchange rules.

Minneapolis / Tampa

Education record

Juris Doctor