Technology Advisory Committee

The Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) was created in 1999 to advise the Commission on complex issues at the intersection of technology, law, policy, and finance. The TAC may, from time to time, provide recommendations relating to the impact and implications of technological change on financial markets and the U.S. economy.

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero sponsors the Technology Advisory Committee. Tony Biagioli serves as the Designated Federal Officer for the committee.

Committee Charter (PDF)

Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology
Name Entity Representing Title
Carole House (Co-Chair) Terranet Ventures Inc. Executive in Residence
Dan Awrey (Co-Chair)   Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos Metrika Founder & CEO
Christian Catalini Lightspark Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Jonah Crane Klaros Group Partner
Sunil Cutinho CME Group Chief Information Officer
Cantrell Dumas Better Markets Director, Derivatives Policy
Michael Greenwald Amazon Web Services Global Lead, Digital Assets
Dan Guido Trail of Bits Co-Founder & CEO
Jill Gunter Espresso Systems Chief Strategy Officer
Stanley Guzik S&P Global Commodity Insights Chief Technology Officer
Ben Milne Brale Founder & CEO
John Palmer Cboe Global Markets, Inc. Representative
Ari Redbord TRM Labs Head of Legal and Government Affairs
Michael Shaulov Fireblocks CEO
Emin Gün Sirer Ava Labs Founder & CEO
Justin Slaughter Paradigm Policy Director
Corey Then Circle Vice President, Global Policy
Adam Zarazinski Inca Digital CEO
Jeffery Zhang   Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Cybersecurity
Name Entity Representing Title
Timothy Gallagher (Co-Chair) Nardello & Co. Managing Director, Digital Investigations & Cyber Defense, Chief Security Officer
Dan Guido (Co-Chair) Trail of Bits Co-Founder & CEO
Hilary Allen   Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship, American University, Washington College of Law
Todd Conklin U.S. Department of the Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP)
Sunil Cutinho CME Group Chief Information Officer
Michael Greenwald Amazon Web Services Global Lead, Digital Assets
Carole House Terranet Ventures Inc. Executive in Residence
Jennifer Ilkiw ICE Futures U.S. President
Justin Slaughter Paradigm Policy Director
Adam Zarazinski Inca Digital CEO
Emerging and Evolving Technologies
Name Entity Representing Title
Nicol Turner Lee (Co-Chair) The Brookings Institution Senior Fellow – Governance Studies, Director – Center for Technology Innovation
Todd Smith (Co-Chair) National Futures Association Director of Centralized Data Science and Analytics
Dan Awrey   Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Todd Conklin U.S. Department of the Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP)
Cantrell Dumas Better Markets Director, Derivatives Policy
Michael Greenwald Amazon Web Services Global Lead, Digital Assets
Dan Guido Trail of Bits Co-Founder & CEO
Carole House Terranet Ventures Inc. Executive in Residence
Ben Milne Brale Founder & CEO
Michael Panfil Environmental Defense Fund Senior Director, Lead Counsel, Climate Risk & Clean Power
Francesca Rossi IBM IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader
Joe Saluzzi Themis Trading Partner and Co-Founder
Steve Suppan Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy Senior Policy Analyst
Corey Then Circle Vice President, Global Policy
Michael Wellman    Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan

Meetings

Date Meeting Details

Meeting to discuss issues facing the futures and swaps industries as the Commission continues to finalize rules under the Dodd-Frank Act, including automated and high frequency trading, exchange oversight and definitions, final recommendations from the Subcommittee on Data Standardization, and credit limit checks: market structure and technology issues. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss issues facing the futures and swaps industries as the Commission continues to finalize rules under the Dodd-Frank Act, including what we can expect to see in the new trading environment of swap execution facilities, defining, classifying, and observing high frequency traders and their impact on the markets, and interim recommendations from the Subcommittee on Data Standardization on universal product and legal entity identifiers, standardization of machine-readable legal contracts, semantics, and data storage and retrieval. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss interim findings on universal product and legal entity identifiers, standardization of machine-readable legal contracts, semantics, and date storage and retrieval. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss public/private solutions for creating well-accepted standards for describing, communicating, and storing data on complex financial products. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss pre-trade functionality, direct market access controls and costs, and technology challenges in implementing the trade execution, processing, and records management requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act. Full details here.

Meeting to discuss high frequency and algorithmic trading practices and the role of technology in pre- and post-trade transparency in implementing the Dodd-Frank Act. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss technological trading in the markets, high frequency trading, and managing the risk and of direct access trading. Full details, including agenda, here.