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 TAC. Tony Biagioli serves as the Designated Federal Officer for the committee. Andrew Rodgers and Benjamin Rankin serve as Alternate Designated Federal Officers for the TAC.

Committee Charter (PDF)

Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology
NameEntity RepresentingTitle
Carole House (Co-Chair)Terranet Ventures Inc.Executive in Residence
Dan Awrey (Co-Chair) Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Nikos AndrikogiannopoulosMetrikaFounder & CEO
Christian CataliniLightsparkCo-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Jonah CraneKlaros GroupPartner
Sunil CutinhoCME GroupChief Information Officer
Cantrell DumasBetter MarketsDirector, Derivatives Policy
Michael GreenwaldAmazon Web ServicesGlobal Lead, Digital Assets
Dan GuidoTrail of BitsCo-Founder & CEO
Jill GunterEspresso SystemsChief Strategy Officer
Stanley GuzikS&P Dow Jones IndicesChief Technology Officer
Ben MilneBraleFounder & CEO
Ari RedbordTRM LabsHead of Legal and Government Affairs
Michael ShaulovFireblocksCEO
Emin Gün SirerAva LabsFounder & CEO
Justin SlaughterParadigmPolicy Director
Corey ThenCircleVice President, Global Policy
Adam ZarazinskiInca DigitalCEO
Jeffery Zhang Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Cybersecurity
NameEntity RepresentingTitle
Timothy Gallagher (Co-Chair)Nardello & Co.Managing Director, Digital Investigations & Cyber Defense, Chief Security Officer
Dan Guido (Co-Chair)Trail of BitsCo-Founder & CEO
Hilary Allen Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship, American University, Washington College of Law
Todd ConklinU.S. Department of the TreasuryChief AI Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP)
Sunil CutinhoCME GroupChief Information Officer
Michael GreenwaldAmazon Web ServicesGlobal Lead, Digital Assets
Carole HouseTerranet Ventures Inc.Executive in Residence
Jennifer IlkiwICE Futures U.S.President
Justin SlaughterParadigmPolicy Director
Adam ZarazinskiInca DigitalCEO
Emerging and Evolving Technologies
NameEntity RepresentingTitle
Nicol Turner Lee (Co-Chair)The Brookings InstitutionSenior Fellow – Governance Studies, Director – Center for Technology Innovation
Todd Smith (Co-Chair)National Futures AssociationDirector of Centralized Data Science and Analytics
Dan Awrey Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Todd ConklinU.S. Department of the TreasuryChief AI Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP)
Cantrell DumasBetter MarketsDirector, Derivatives Policy
Michael GreenwaldAmazon Web ServicesGlobal Lead, Digital Assets
Dan GuidoTrail of BitsCo-Founder & CEO
Carole HouseTerranet Ventures Inc.Executive in Residence
Ben MilneBraleFounder & CEO
Francesca RossiIBMIBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader
Joe SaluzziThemis TradingPartner and Co-Founder
Steve SuppanInstitute for Agriculture & Trade PolicySenior Policy Analyst
Corey ThenCircleVice 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 and the aggregation of liquidity across designated contract markets and swap execution facilities. 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 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.