As the Interim CEO of Binance.US, I’m focused on growing and maintaining the premier, regulated cryptocurrency marketplace with a commitment to technological innovation and everyday digital asset accessibility. My journey in the financial services sector has been marked by a passion for facilitating growth and addressing complex commercial and regulatory challenges, particularly in the realms of payments, securities, and cryptocurrencies.My previous roles include serving as General Counsel at Omgeo LLC (a joint venture between the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and Thomson Reuters), Ripple, Carta, Nanopay, and Onsa before joining Binance.US in the same capacity. My foundation in this field was built through pivotal experiences at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the SEC, where I honed my expertise in market regulation and enforcement.Throughout my career, I've been driven by a commitment to integrating cutting-edge technology with regulatory compliance to redefine the financial landscape. I am excited to continue this journey, shaping the future of digital assets and financial technology.

As General Counsel I focused on the Binance.US mission to build the most successful cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange in the United States, while providing liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to financial markets by creating products that leverage crypto to unlock the power of everything.

I led legal and compliance at Onsa. This included providing both strategic and operational advice to Onsa's CEO and the other members of the executive team. In particular, I provided advice and support regarding Onsa's crypto-currency, money transmission and securities businesses.

As nanopay’s General Counsel I provided strategic and tactical legal advice about regulatory, commercial and intellectual property matters as well as assisting in the areas of information security and privacy. I also served as Chief Compliance Officer and led the design and implementation of nanopay's global compliance program.

As the General Counsel of Carta I reported directly to the CEO, and provided strategic and legal advice on various regulatory and commercial matters. My primary responsibilities included:• Supporting Carta's rapidly growing broker-dealer, custodian, transfer agent, and escrow services businesses, which among other things includes preventing and quickly resolving any compliance issues arising from these activities;• Helping to identify internal risks and develop processes for managing them, e.g, information security and privacy; and• Supporting Carta commercial activities such as drafting and negotiating contracts, participating in procurement negotiations, employment issues, and providing the general day-to-day legal services that a rapidly growing start-up needs.

Ripple implements solutions derived from Bitcoin blockchain technology for banks and other financial institutions to send cross-border payments.As Ripple’s General Counsel, I served as a member of Ripple’s senior executive team reporting directly to the CEO, providing strategic and legal advice on various regulatory, commercial, litigation and intellectual property matters. Among other things during my time at Ripple, I resolved a pre-existing investigation brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California and FinCEN on terms that permitted Ripple to continue expanding its business with financial institutions, and also suggested and supported the launching of a derivative of Ripple’s virtual currency, XRP, in a regulated marketplace in London. I also suggested and supported obtaining a BitLicense from the Department of Financial Services of New York State.

Omgeo LLC (“Omgeo”) provides post-trade, pre-settlement services for institutional securities transactions to 6500 global financial institutions in 52 countries.  As Omgeo’s General Counsel, I served as a member of Omgeo’s senior executive team reporting directly to the CEO, providing strategic and legal advice to the company’s business lines. I managed a team of lawyers and paralegals located in New York, Boston, London, and Sydney, Australia. Some major accomplishments included: • Managed all regulatory matters, including the SEC and international regulators such as the FSA (U.K.), the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Ontario Securities Commission;• Oversaw implementation of extensive data protection and anti-money laundering program as part of negotiated resolution between Omgeo and the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of pre-existing issues regarding flaws in Omgeo’s information security and other internal control weaknesses identified during an examination; • Obtained four SEC no-action letters to enable Omgeo to introduce three significant new business lines, providing legal certainty for customers using Omgeo services; • Submitted comment letter and held conversations with SEC staff to preserve Omgeo’s “regulatory light” status as an exempted clearing agency outside of the Dodd-Frank Act; • Led the drafting and implementation of a new Master Services Agreement that redefined Omgeo’s legal relationships with its client base of approximately 6500 firms located in 52 countries; and• Worked with teams from Omgeo’s Product, Sales, and Relationship Management functions to support key new business initiatives such as the InSite disclosure service, confirm archiving services for broker-dealers, investment managers, and hedge funds, an ETD processing service, as well as the ProtoColl collateral management service.

DTCC:Managing Director in the legal department of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, reporting directly to DTCC’s General Counsel. Collaborated with senior DTCC staff to develop new ventures, and also providing intellectual property and data law advice. Major accomplishments include: • Negotiated a series of software licensing and related intellectual property agreements between DTCC and NYSE establishing the New York Portfolio Clearing as a joint venture; • Negotiated significant software licensing agreement with the NYSE allowing for the exchange trading of futures based on DTCC’s GCF Repo Index; and• Drafted and negotiated a series of index licensing agreements with various dealers and inter-dealer brokers so that DTCC could offer its GCF Repo Index to the market as a reference for Swap and other over-the-counter instrument transactions.

Responsibilities included drafting amendments to the SEC’s trade confirmation rule (Rule 10b-10) relating to transactions in security futures products and the rules governing the trading of low-priced, illiquid securities. Prepared a number of no-action/exemptive letters, reviewed numerous enforcement cases, and provided securities law advice to senior SEC attorneys and to outside counsel.

Managed investigations of alleged violations of U.S. banking laws and regulations by major international banks, including the U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks in the following areas: cash management; mortgage-backed securities; foreign exchange trading; treasury notes and bonds; custody/transfer agent responsibilities; insider trading; and private banking.

Commercial litigation practice involving diverse matters, e.g., banking law and regulation.