Speakers

David A. DeMuro

David A. DeMuro is a Senior Counsel in the New York office of O’Melveny and Myers and a member of the firm’s Securities Enforcement and Regulatory Counseling practice group.

From 1984 through 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers and served as Managing Director and head of Global Compliance and Regulation for the firm. He was responsible for developing compliance policies for and providing compliance advice to the firm’s businesses. He also oversaw the Regulatory Law Group, which represented the firm and its employees in all government and regulatory inquiries, investigations, and proceedings. In 2005, he was named by the Compliance Reporter as compliance person of the year.

Before joining Lehman Brothers, he worked for ten years with the Securities and Exchange Commission in its Enforcement Division in Chicago and Los Angeles and in its Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C.

From 1993 through 2004, Mr. DeMuro was a member of the Executive Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s Compliance & Legal Division, serving as its President from 2003 to 2004. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the SIFMA/Wharton Securities Industry Institute.

He was a member of the NASD Board of Governors from 2001 through 2005. From 1999 through 2002, Mr. DeMuro was on the NASD’s National Adjudicatory Council, serving as its Chairman from 2001 to 2002. He was on the NASD, now FINRA, Membership Committee from 1998 through 2008. He also served on the FINRA Licensing and Registration Council. From 2004 through 2008, he was been a member of the FINRA Compliance Advisory Group. From 1996 through 1998, he served on the Business Conduct Committee of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

From 1993 through 1997, he was a member of the Securities Industry/Regulatory Council on Continuing Education, serving as its Chairman in 1997. From 1998 through 2008, he was on the Council’s Regulatory Element content committee.

Mr. DeMuro is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He also holds a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is a member of the State Bars of New York, Illinois and Michigan. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Theta Xi Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society.

Scott McCleskey

Scott has nearly twenty years of compliance and regulatory experience with broker-dealers, exchanges, Self-Regulatory Organizations and other regulated entities, and has worked in New York, Washington, London and Brussels. He has served as global Chief Compliance Officer for a regulated firm and as Director of Public Regulatory Policy for a securities exchange, and has worked closely with high level regulatory officials throughout the world. Prior to entering the financial services industry, he was a Special Agent with the FBI.

Scott’s publications include books and journal articles examining such topics as best execution, international market integration, and the practical impact of proposed changes to financial regulations. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s degree in Financial Regulation and Compliance Management from London Guildhall University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Government from the College of William and Mary.

Scott McCleskey is Managing Editor for Complinet’s North America region. In that capacity, he is responsible for the region’s news and analysis reporting, as well as the content of other Regulatory Insight products.

Robert E. Wright

Robert E. Wright is currently Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College, and most recently Clinical Associate Professor of Economics in New York University’s Stern School of Business. Wright, who holds a Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo (1997), has also taught economics at the University of Virginia, humanities at Temple University, and numerous other graduate and undergraduate courses at a variety of colleges and universities. He has authored or co-authored nine books and edited or co-edited three series of primary source materials. He is the editor of Pickering & Chatto’s financial history monograph series and a curator for the Museum of American Finance in New York. His latest edited volume, Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit, is due out later this year. Visit http://faculty.augie.edu/~rwright/ for more information about Wright.