Dubai Mercantile Exchange Appoints CME Group's Owain Johnson as Chief of Products and Services PR Newswire DUBAI, June 7, 2012 DUBAI, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the leading energy futures exchange in the Middle East, today announced the addition of Owain Johnson as the Chief of Products and Services to the strategic management team of the Exchange. Owain joins DME from CME Group, where he spent the previous four years as Executive Director in Singapore, covering the Asian energy and commodity markets. Prior to that Owain spent 10 years as an energy market analyst in the UK and South America, working for a number of high profile companies. A regular speaker at international energy conferences, Owain holds a Masters' Degree from Cambridge University. DME's Chairman Ahmad Sharaf said: "I am pleased to announce the appointment of Owain Johnson as DME's Chief of Products and Services, and welcome him to the team. Owain's experience in the Asian energy and commodity markets and his knowledge of the global markets is invaluable and will certainly contribute towards achieving DME's goals and objectives. His addition to the team underscores the Exchange's strategy of focusing more attention on the very important Asian markets, which are experiencing rapid growth in oil production and consumption." The move follows the DME's shareholder restructuring, which was completed in February of this year.