“He has all the qualities you look for in a ceo. He’s very smart, very dedicated and he works like a dog.”

—Bob Birnbaum, a former president of the New York Stock Exchange, on the qualities of William J. Brodsky, chairman and ceo of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, who is to receive the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Global Derivatives Awards ceremony on Sept. 19, 2013 at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London.