Rostin Behnam was sworn in as the CFTC’s 15th Chairman on January 4, 2022, after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. President Biden nominated Chairman Behnam to lead the agency. Previously, Chairman Behnam served as CFTC Commissioner since September 2017.  The members of the Commission elected Commissioner Behnam as Acting Chairman, effective January 21, 2021.

Chairman Behnam’s arrival at the CFTC followed extensive experiences in financial markets.  As Senior Counsel to Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, he primarily focused on policy and legislative matters related to the CFTC, including advising Senator Stabenow on the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related matters affecting the Treasury Department, the U.S. prudential regulators, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

After graduating from Georgetown University, Chairman Behnam worked as a proprietary equities trader in New York City before pursuing a Juris Doctorate at Syracuse University. Upon graduation, he returned to his home state of New Jersey and joined the Bureau of Securities within the state’s Office of the Attorney General.  Following his time with the Bureau of Securities, Chairman Behnam practised law in New York City.

Thomas W. Sexton III is President and Chief Executive Officer of National Futures Association. Mr. Sexton joined NFA in July 1991 and over the years held several legal positions with increasing responsibilities, including serving as NFA's General Counsel and Secretary from September 2001-February 2017. In his role as General Counsel, Mr. Sexton oversaw major regulatory initiatives impacting NFA's Member firms and various enforcement matters.    

Mr. Sexton holds a law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School, an MBA degree from Loyola University Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Notre Dame.    

Mr. Sexton is a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee and is a board member of Futures Fundamentals. Mr. Sexton is a frequent panelist at industry conferences and seminars, where he speaks on topics pertaining to derivatives industry regulatory issues.   

In that role, he leads NFA’s regulatory oversight of Swap Dealers. Michael is based in NFA’s New York office. Michael was formerly an Executive Director in the Legal Department at Nomura Americas where he worked closely with Nomura’s registered Swap Dealers, Futures Commission Merchant, Broker-Dealer, and affiliates worldwide on implementation of regulatory reforms.

Before joining Nomura in July 2012, he spent nearly ten years at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC, where he served in various senior roles, including as Legal Counsel to Chairman Reuben Jeffery, Acting Chairman Walt Lukken, and Commissioner Jill E. Sommers, and as a Chief Trial Attorney at the agency’s Division of Enforcement. Prior to joining the Commission, Michael was a Partner at LeClair Ryan, a Richmond, Virginia law firm, and began his legal career on active-duty in the United States Air Force, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Michael received a JD from Boston College Law School and a BA from Manhattanville College. 

Elizabeth Davis is the Co-Chair of the Financial Services practice group at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Elizabeth advises and defends domestic and foreign companies and individuals in civil and criminal investigations, examinations, and litigation before the CFTC, DOJ, SEC, NFA, and exchanges; she also handles corporate internal investigations and provides regulatory and compliance guidance. Elizabeth previously was a Chief Trial Attorney at the CFTC, where she led regulatory enforcement matters encompassing issues ranging from manipulation, digital assets, disruptive trading, and trade practice issues. Elizabeth was also a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and litigated numerous civil tax controversy matters in federal district and bankruptcy courts.

Andrew joined BofA to head GM Business Controls globally in October 2021 from BNPP, where, over four years, he built and ran their global Front Office Conduct & Surveillance (FOCS) team. Prior to joining BNPP, Andrew worked at the FCA for four years, where he was integral to the FX investigations and was the Lead Specialist on the FCA’s FX Remediation Programme, which lasted 15 months. Andrew then managed the Wholesale Banks Supervision Sector team, which, given the asset class skills of individuals within his team, was the first point of contact for large banks facing potential misconduct issues. 

Prior to the FCA, Andrew had a 27-year career in the Front Office: 15 years at Citibank and three years at Erste Bank, where he was Global Head of FX and Proprietary Trading, as well as time spent at Deutsche Bank, Mizuho, RBC and BTMU in various managerial and trading roles.

Sean Dusseau is currently Managing Director and Head of Global Capital Markets Compliance at the Bank of Nova Scotia. In that role, Sean manages Scotia’s Capital Markets activities in the US, Canada, Europe, LATAM, and APAC. He also has accountability and oversight for Swap Dealer and Derivatives Compliance, including serving as Chief Compliance Officer for the registered Swap Dealer, Security-Based Swap Dealer, and Futures Commission Merchant, as well as Scotiabank’s Global Compliance Trade Surveillance program. 
  
Prior to joining Scotiabank, Sean worked for several U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions, most recently Citigroup, where he led the Advisory Compliance program for four registered Swap Dealers, as well as providing oversight over regulatory change across Capital Markets businesses. Earlier in his career, Sean worked for the National Futures Association, where he supervised examinations of registered Swap Dealers.
  
Sean holds a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School.

Farhan Amin is based in New York and is the Global Head of Business Control Management for the Markets business at Wells Fargo; he was previously Head of Risk Identification & Assessment for Wells Fargo’s Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Farhan’s career spanned London and New York, most recently at HSBC as the Americas Chief Control Officer for the Markets and Securities Services business, and before that as Business Manager for Precious Metals Trading and Energy Solutions. Farhan is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and an alumnus of the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.

Rob is the owner of RMCG Advisors, a consulting business focused on addressing Risk Management, Controls, and Governance issues related to market conduct and trade surveillance at large banks. Rob’s career path has provided him with subject matter expertise across financial and non-financial risk management. He started his career 20 years ago as a precious and base metals options trader and desk head at several large banks based in New York and London. In 2015, Rob became a senior capital markets bank examiner at the OCC, where he focused supervisory attention and oversight on market conduct and trade surveillance, with initial attention to the FX Consent Order remediation. Rob’s trading experience and regulatory knowledge underpin his ability to evaluate and challenge responses to and remediate regulatory issues and consult on strengthening internal controls and governance. 

Paul is a Principal with KPMG’s Financial Services Regulatory Risk practice who brings 25 years of experience in the financial services space with a focus on capital markets. He has significant experience in the operational and regulatory risk disciplines and has a history of success building out and leading risk and compliance teams. 

Prior to joining KPMG, Paul launched and led the Office of Risk for a leading capital markets regulator and was responsible for the design and execution of a robust risk analytics platform intended to identify and prioritize risk exposures and target the focus of regulatory resources. His teams built an analytic infrastructure that assessed risk across 4600 broker-dealers, prioritized firms for regulatory focus based on empirical analytics, and identified specific areas of regulatory focus for examination teams.

Scott Armstrong is a Principal at McGovern Weems, where he counsels and defends traders and executives across the financial markets.  Before joining McGovern Weems, Scott served for nine years in the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, where he tried thirteen criminal jury trials involving complex, white-collar offenses in the financial markets and healthcare industry.  Scott was most recently an Assistant Chief in the Fraud Section's Market Integrity and Major Fraud Unit ("MIMF"), where he was the senior supervisor for the Department's criminal matters involving manipulation and fraud in the markets for securities, commodities, and cryptocurrencies.  In that capacity, he tried the Department's groundbreaking cases involving manipulation and fraud in the markets for commodities futures and cryptocurrency.  Scott also served as lead counsel in the Department's pending case involving manipulation in the U.S. Treasuries market and supervised other manipulation investigations across the financial markets.

Neil has been CEO and co-founder of TradingHub since 2010, running a rapidly expanding company with a global footprint. Neil has 18 years of banking experience from initially trading interest rate derivatives at Chase Manhattan Bank to setting up the exotic interest rate derivatives business at Bear Stearns in London before moving to Merrill Lynch and running the global structured credit derivatives business and then ultimately running the Global Credit Trading department at Dresdner Bank. Neil’s experience extends to designing and implementing trading systems, working with middle and back-office personnel and negotiating the credit derivatives documentation. Whilst building TradingHub over the last fourteen years, Neil spent five years serving on the Boards and Risk Committees of LCH.

Mike graduated from Cambridge University in 2003 with a degree in Engineering. He then joined the city, initially working for a year at Merrill Lynch, designing and building trading systems for the growing credit derivative business. In 2004, Mike moved to the front office, where he traded credit derivatives, firstly at Merrill Lynch and subsequently at Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank. At Commerzbank, he ran the exotic credit derivatives desk. Mike left the banking industry in 2010 to set up a consultancy company that advised on what was, at the time, the largest credit derivatives unwind in the city. Since 2012, Mike has been the Chief Technology Officer at TradingHub, where he is responsible for the engineering platform, analytics and product delivery.  

Katie is a Proposition Manager at TradingHub, overseeing the product propositions and strategy and works closely with the engineering department as well as our Relationship Managers to understand how TradingHub can provide a best-in-class offering to customers. Prior to this, Katie was the Product Manager of AMLA, a financial markets anti-money laundering monitoring tool, where she oversaw the product strategy, proposition, and development pipeline. Prior to joining TradingHub, Katie worked as a financial consultant and spent some time at Goldman Sachs Asset Management working within middle office. 

Mark currently works at TradingHub as Head of EMEA Relationship Management, having accumulated 24 years of experience in Fixed Income and Credit Trading and Distribution. Previously, he was at Liquidnet for over eight years, initially in UK Sales and ultimately taking responsibility for Product Development for both the Dark Pool and Primary Markets Business. Prior to Liquidnet, he spent over two years as an MD at HSBC in London, running UK Credit Sales. This was a continuation of his 12 years at Morgan Stanley, principally in sales but also drawing on experience in the credit structuring and research teams. Mark holds a BA in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Geophysics from Harvard University.

Shayne Ganeson is currently Head of Relationship Management at TradingHub. Prior to joining in 2020, Shayne spent over a decade working for global banks in London. At Credit Suisse he advised European quasi-institutional clients on asset allocation and tactical trading strategies, specialising in fixed income markets.

Shayne started his career in the Graduate Analyst Program at Morgan Stanley on an institutional desk covering UK and French clients. His responsibilities included developing cross-asset trading strategies and trade execution. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Finance and Investment Banking from the University of Reading and is a CFA Charterholder.

Andrew is a surveillance/compliance subject matter expert with over ten years of experience working for major financial institutions and financial regulators. Prior to joining TradingHub as Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Andrew was the Global Head of fixed income and FX surveillance for UBS. In his time at UBS, he was very involved in the implementation of MAST and the management of the MAST user team. Before joining UBS, Andrew worked for FINRA in New York as an analyst and on-site examiner. After completing his undergraduate degree, he attended law school to complete a Juris Doctorate and is a registered attorney in NY state.

Selina is a Senior Relationship Manager at TradingHub, primarily responsible for managing Asset Managers and Hedge Funds customers globally. Prior to TradingHub, Selina was Sales Director for the Regulatory and Compliance group at S&P Global in London, selling counterparty management software to Asset Managers and Hedge Funds in Europe. Selina joined S&P after spending ten years selling a leading global alpha capture platform with TIM Group, having split her time between Toronto and London. Selina graduated with Honors from the University of Toronto with a double major in Biomedical Ethics and Sociology.