ICE President to Speak With UA Students

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Chuck Vice, president and chief operating officer of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), will be speaking with students at The University of Alabama Monday, Feb. 19.

Vice’s presentation continues the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Leadership Series: “So, You Want to be a CEO,” which brings prominent business leaders to speak with students at UA. Vice’s lecture begins at 3 p.m. in Shelby Hall, Room 150. It is open to the public.

As president, Vice oversees ICE’s operations, including market development, customer support, business development activities and the execution of ICE’s technology strategies. He has more than 15 years of experience in applying information technology in the energy industry.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Alabama, Vice began working as a systems analyst with Electronic Data Systems. He later received a master’s degree in business from Vanderbilt University. He has been with ICE since its founding, having previously been a member of the management team at Continental Power Exchange Inc., ICE’s predecessor company.

ICE operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s markets offer access to a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as soft commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futures and options.

ICE conducts its energy futures markets through its U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe’s leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world’s leading oil benchmarks, Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading nearly half of the world’s global crude futures by volume of commodity traded.

ICE conducts its soft commodity futures and options markets through its U.S. regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade. For more than a century, the NYBOT has provided global markets for food, fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000 Index on June 30, 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore.

In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s fully accredited College of Engineering has about 1,900 students and nearly 100 faculty. In the last seven years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater scholars, Hollings scholars and Portz scholars.