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The Tölt Strategies Team

Tölt Strategies is Proudly Owned and Led by Women

Dorothy DeWitt

Tel: +1 212-287-5810

Email: dorothy.dewitt@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Harvard Law School, JD

University of Texas at Austin, BA

ACAMS

Public Service

Director of the Division of Market Oversight, CFTC

Chief Finance Counsel – The Honorable Kirsten E. Gillibrand, U.S. Senate (responsible for drafting crypto legislation)

Law Clerk – Honorable John E. Sprizzo, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Dorothy D. DeWitt is the founder and CEO of independent monitor and compliance advisory firm Tölt Strategies. Her experience regulating and advising companies in emerging and traditional regulated financial services sectors allows her to provide clients with pragmatic, customized solutions that consider the client’s requirements, organization, and culture, among other factors, and are supportive of responsible innovation and growth. Ms. DeWitt recently served as the first woman director of the Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”). Ms. DeWitt was responsible for the licensing, regulation, and examination of derivatives trading platforms, and oversaw the approximately $400 trillion notional commodity derivative markets regulated by the CFTC. Ms. DeWitt led a staff of approximately 100 lawyers and economists. She oversaw five departments responsible for regulating and licensing designated contract markets, SEFs, FBOTs, and Swap Data Repositories; examining those entities; and identifying and advising the full Commission on emerging risk, trends, and market structure across regulated derivatives markets and the underlying spot markets to support policymaking and enforcement.

Ms. DeWitt led teams that finalized the CFTC’s last Dodd-Frank rules, and she supported three President’s Working Groups on Financial Markets under two administrations on payment stablecoins and cybersecurity. Ms. DeWitt regularly briefed the White House’s National Economic Council, Congress, Treasury, the SEC, and international regulators and policymakers on emerging risks and issues in the commodity cash and derivative markets. She also led an update of applicable recordkeeping and other rules and issued no-action relief and guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms. DeWitt was awarded the CFTC Chairman’s Award for Management Excellence in recognition of her accomplishments.

At the request of U.S Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Ms. DeWitt joined the Senate to provide technical policy expertise in developing crypto legislation and banking policy in the context of the 2023 banking crisis. She served as Chief Finance Counsel to the Senator. Ms. DeWitt joined the CFTC from Coinbase, where she served as General Counsel, supporting the establishment and growth to global leadership of Coinbase Custody and institutional services.

Ms. DeWitt previously served in senior legal and compliance roles at S&P Global, Citadel Securities, JPMorgan and as an attorney at Davis Polk. At S&P Ratings, Ms. DeWitt successfully led a $100 million program to establish a culture of compliance and build an internal control framework in the wake of new Dodd-Frank SEC regulations, financial crimes compliance requirements, and a global SEC and State AG settlement of approximately $1.2 billion involving significant remediation and other undertakings.

At Citadel Securities, Ms. DeWitt led a major program assessing and enhancing the organization’s internal control framework and compliance program, enabling the organization to triple its market share compliantly with no additional headcount. This involved identifying legal and regulatory requirements, mapping and assessing controls against each, enhancing and automating the internal risk and compliance control framework, developing year-round compliance testing programs, and improving the annual compliance report processes for several broker-dealers and a CFTC-registered swap dealer. Previously, Ms. DeWitt spent nearly a decade as a portfolio manager and analyst at arbitrage hedge funds and funds of funds. Ms. DeWitt earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (cum laude).

Email: william.mccoy@toltstrategies.com  

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Education

Fordham University, JD

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, B.S.

William F. McCoy (Bill) is a senior industry professional and trusted advisor with close to four decades of experience advising global financial institutions. His depth of experience across commodities, derivatives, regulatory frameworks, and market infrastructure—combined with his long-standing engagement with regulators and self-regulatory organizations—makes him an exceptional resource for our clients.  

During a tenure of more than 30 years, Bill served Morgan Stanley in a series of roles of increasing responsibility, culminating as a Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Legal Coverage. At Morgan Stanley, he oversaw global legal support for commodities trading across exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, physical and financial markets in metals, oil, natural gas, and electricity, and environmental and carbon-related products, including emissions, offsets, and voluntary carbon credits. 

Bill also contributed his expertise to industry and regulatory bodies for more than 20 years. He served on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group from 2003 to 2007, and he was a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Energy & Environmental Markets Advisory Committee from 2008 to 2025. He is a former President of the Law & Compliance Division of the Futures Industry Association (“FIA”), as well as a former board member and long-standing Executive Committee member. In recognition of that service, Bill is a 2026 Hall of Fame inductee for FIA.  

He was also a director for the National Futures Association (“NFA”) for multiple terms and served on multiple advisory committees of the NFA. Bill has also contributed to the work of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (“ISDA”) and other industry associations focused on derivatives, commodities, and market regulation.  

In 2024, Bill founded and became the principal of WFM Regulatory Consulting LLC. 

Ronald Filler

Email: ronald.filler@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Georgetown University Law Center, Master of Laws

George Washington University Law School, JD

University of Illinois, B.A.

Ronald H. Filler (Ron) is an esteemed former Professor of Law and a global leader in the financial services industry. During his 45+ year career in the global futures and securities industries, he has spoken at over 300 business and law programs.

As a professor at four U.S. law schools, he taught Securities Regulation, Derivatives Regulation, and the Regulation of Broker-Dealers and Futures Commission Merchants, among other subjects. In January 2020, Ron became Professor Emeritus at New York Law School (NYLS). In March 2021, he was named Chair of the newly named Ronald H. Filler Institute on Financial Services Law at NYLS.

Ron is a current member of the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (NFA) where he serves as a Public Director through early 2028. His continued service to NFA includes past membership on the Executive Committee. In March 2022, he was inducted into the  Futures Industry Association (FIA) Hall of Fame for serving on the Executive Committee of FIA Law & Compliance Division for 40+ years. Ron has also previously served as the Past Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee as a Public Director and Member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of NYSE Life US, before its purchase by the International Commodity Exchange (ICE).

In the private sector, Ron also currently serves on the Board of Directors of ABAXX Clearing, a clearinghouse located in Singapore. He is the Chair of its Regulatory Oversight Conflicts Committee, a former Public Director of the Board of Directors, and the Chair of the Nominating Committee. Previously, Ron served on the Regulatory Oversight Committee of Swap-Ex, a swap execution facility owned by State Street, and he served as a Senior Consultant to Allen & Overy, a major international law firm. Ron is currently a member of, or has served on, numerous additional industry boards and advisory committees, as well as been a member of several U.S. futures exchanges during his career.

Ron joined the faculty of NYLS in 2008. He brought with him fifteen years of experience as the Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division of Lehman Brothers Inc., where he was responsible for various business, legal and regulatory matters involving the global futures markets. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1993, he was a Partner and Member of the Executive Committee at Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz in Chicago, IL, and worked other law firms and brokerage firms earlier in his career.

Ron is a co-author of a law treatise on “Regulation of Financial Derivative Instruments (Swaps, Options and Futures)” and has written extensively on a variety of issues facing the financial services, derivatives, and securities industries throughout his career.

Thomas Thompson

Email:  thomas.thompson@toltstrategies.com

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Education

University of Minnesota in Agricultural and Applied Economics, MSc

Columbia College, B.A.

Thomas G. Thompson (Thom) has been contributing to the spectacular growth in derivatives trading since the 1980s as a product designer, economist, and advisor for exchanges and clearinghouses in the United States and Europe. He got his start in the futures industry in the economics division of the CFTC in 1981.

An agricultural economist, Thom joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1984 and helped bring the first soybean futures options to market in the ag options pilot program.

After that, Thom became a senior product designer in the financial instruments group. There he developed and launched five- and two-year Treasury note futures. He also worked on foreign government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and insurance futures products while at the CBOT.

In 1995 Thom and his family moved to Germany, where he worked in international market development for the DTB, later Eurex. As part of his role there, Thom advised exchanges in Bratislava, Budapest, Kyiv and Moscow on how to set up futures trading on behalf of Eurex’s parent company, Deutsche Börse. In 1997, Thom made several presentations to the risk committee of the Russian Central Bank regarding trading on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange.

After consulting for the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation, in 2001 he re-joined Eurex, this time in Chicago supporting U.S. market expansion. In 2006, Thom returned to Germany to work on OTC trading and clearing issues, especially assisting on Dodd-Frank Act compliance.  Thom became its U.S. CCO in 2011 and guided its application for the U.S. swaps clearing license.

After a few years consulting and writing for John Lothian News, where he headed up crypto reporting, Thom became chief compliance officer at CX Futures Exchange and oversaw its evolution into a full-fledged futures exchange, FMX Futures.

Email: Bradley.Giemza@toltstrategies.com

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Education

DePaul University, MBA

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, B.A.

Bradley Giemza (Brad) is a seasoned global leader with more than two decades of experience  spanning clearing, technology, and risk operations at major financial institutions. Those experiences enabled him to develop expertise in integrating technology solutions with risk management frameworks to support derivatives trading and clearing operations. 

Before joining Tölt Strategies, Brad was the group chief risk officer and managing director with R.J. O’Brien & Associates, where he was responsible for all emerging technologies and all risk matters, including fintech, agtech, AI, and Data as an Asset. Among other duties, he was responsible for the global risk department and risk technology; the digitizing RJO Risk methodologies and process flows; managing all control and monitoring of algorithmic trading services; and leading the firm’s AI and Data as an Asset research and development. 

Prior to his time with R.J. O’Brien, Brad was head of investment banking and capital markets IT at MUFG Union Bank. There he was responsible for aligning technology, risk management, and operational objectives across the bank’s interest rate derivatives, commodities, and foreign exchange trading operations. 

Earlier in his career, Brad founded Neo Risk Management, a platform that assigns accountability and creates transparency to automate process control, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance. Also, he was Global Head of IT for the Newedge Group, a joint venture between Société Générale and Crédit Agricole that operated as one of the world’s largest multi-asset futures and options brokers. 

Brad is a member of the Global Association of Risk Managers and the Futures Industry Association (FIA).

Email:  everett.samms@toltstrategies.com 

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Education

Pace University, B.A. 

Everett H. Samms, MSG, USAR (Ret.) is a senior financial-markets leader with more than 30 years of experience across futures trading, derivatives markets, credit risk, market risk, margin operations, and regulatory oversight. He has built and led enterprise risk frameworks for some of the industry’s most established brokerage and futures organizations, possessing deep expertise spanning institutional, commercial, and retail market participants. His professional background integrates operational oversight and technology-enabled risk management, a combination shaped by a strategic mindset and a disciplined, mission-focused approach developed over three decades of military service.

Most recently, Everett served as Executive Director of Risk – North America at R.J. O’Brien & Associates, where he led regional risk strategy and oversaw daily exposure monitoring, margin adequacy, and counterparty risk assessment. In this role, he chaired the firm’s Risk Management Unit and was instrumental in modernizing operational risk processes through the implementation of real-time risk analytics and integrated dashboards. Prior to this, he served for nearly two decades as Senior Director and Head of Credit at R.J. O’Brien, directing firmwide credit risk governance, onboarding controls, and exposure oversight while balancing disciplined risk management with business growth objectives.

Earlier in his career, Everett held senior leadership positions at Refco and PaineWebber, where he managed teams focused on client onboarding, documentation, margin exposure limits, and financial analysis. He also contributed to the design and development of Credit Limit and Line Exception Reporting systems that enhanced risk transparency and operational efficiency. His broad experience extends to legal structures, vendor oversight, and multi-state operational management, where he has guided organizations through complex markets and governance challenges. 

In addition to his financial expertise, Everett served with distinction in both the United States Air Force Reserve and United States Army Reserve, retiring as a Master Sergeant after 30 years of service. His military leadership included operational, instructional, and advisory assignments—including aircraft maintenance and service in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom—and he is the recipient of multiple commendations recognizing his leadership and operational excellence. He is widely recognized for his strategic mindset and his ability to build robust risk frameworks that align operational efficiency with regulatory expectations.

Jason Fairbanks

Tel: +1 212-287-5810

Email: jason.fairbanks@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Johns Hopkins University, MA

University of South Carolina Honors College, BA

Jason Fairbanks is a derivatives regulatory advisor and market conduct consultant with over 12 years of experience between the public and private sectors. His expertise combines both quantitative and qualitative evaluations of compliance with diverse regulatory requirements, including swaps regulatory reporting, product listing requirements, and market conduct controls for futures brokers, swap dealers, exchanges, and principal trading firms in traditional and decentralized finance.

Jason experience in the private sector has spanned independent consultant arrangements remediating regulatory findings, supporting litigation related to new product listings, testing regulatory controls via mock examination, and conducting internal investigations into potential market conduct violations under US, UK, and EU regulations. In the public sector, Jason has worked with regulators such as the CFTC, SEC, and DOJ on engagements including program design, technical capability development, monitorship oversight, and investigations.

For the SEC Division of Examinations, Jason helped lead a contractor team designing the SEC’s approach to using mandated security-based swaps reporting. In that role, he provided technical guidance to the SEC on data architecture and quality governance, designed and oversaw implementation of core analytic tools and controls, interfaced with industry on technical swaps reporting issues, and evaluated current events in the swaps market for other SEC divisions.

Earlier, as a member of the CFTC Division of Enforcement Forensic Economics program, under the Office of the Chief Counsel, Jason served as an in-house analytical expert advising legal teams and investigating market conduct matters resulting in over $750 million in fines. His methods and software expanded the scope, accuracy, and precision of CFTC investigative and trade surveillance capabilities, particularly those involving multi-year spans of data, complex schemes, novel products, or cross-market conduct. Jason served as a Division of Enforcement representative to working groups innovating new technology solutions and revising swaps regulatory reporting standards. He first joined the CFTC as a contractor providing ad hoc analysis and data science solutions across the agency.

Jason is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and previously held the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) designation.

Email: Kirke.cushing@toltstrategies.com

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Education

DePauw University, B.A. 

Kirke Cushing brings more than 30 years of experience in financial services to Tölt Strategies, with expertise in wealth management, risk and regulatory compliance, M&A due diligence, strategic business development, and go-to-market strategy. He is a well-known subject matter expert (SME) with extensive expert networks and delivers valuable insights to both investors and companies.

In addition to advising Tölt clients, Kirke serves on the Advisory Board for RipeMetrics, a customer growth platform for small and medium-sized online businesses. He also partners in a global advisory and consulting firm for financial services, specializing in data governance, management, and quality, as well as broader operational and technical innovation, transformation, digitization, and visualization capabilities.

Prior to his current roles, he founded and led Cushing Consulting LLC, served as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director at Mesirow Financial, and was the US Head of Client Service at Deutsche Bank’s DWS Investments. Kirke is also a former FINRA industry arbitrator and former member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Private Client Committee, reflecting his long‑standing commitment to regulatory integrity and industry best practices.

Email: michael.cavers@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Devry University, B.S. 

Michael Cavers (Mike) is a market regulation, financial operations, risk, and compliance professional with over 11 years of experience building, implementing, and leading examination and surveillance functions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Mike has substantial experience in derivatives and equity oversight translating rules, regulations, and concepts into real world policies, procedures, and processes. At the SEC, he was a Securities Compliance Examiner, a role in which he implemented and was the architect of the Commission’s security-based swap dealer examination program, defining risk frameworks, advising exam teams, developing examination procedures, training materials, staff guidance, and risk intelligence workflows covering business conduct rules, trading practices, supervisory systems, reporting integrity, and risk management programs. He also played a central role in building the Commission’s security-based swap surveillance and monitoring program. Mike established processes and procedures for market activity analysis and monitoring, risk triage, and regulatory responses while leading industry and internal outreach supporting security-based swap data reporting and integrity.

Prior to this, Mike served as Financial Examiner for FINRA, where he led financial operations and trading practice examinations of market makers, electronic marketplaces, clearing organizations, and proprietary trading firms. His focus areas included net capital, surveillance, risk management, market access and pre-trade controls, anti-fraud and market manipulation, algorithmic oversight, and technology governance.

Mike began his career in corporate accounting and finance, spending five years in private equity and venture capital-backed companies within the financial services and retail industries. 

Paul Brochet

Email: paul.brochert@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Georgetown University, MBA

Michigan State University, B.S.

Paul Brochert is a versatile strategy and operations executive with more than 15 years of experience leading complex initiatives across the financial services, management consulting, and technology industries. As a Consultant for Tölt Strategies, he specializes in strategic and tactical projects relating to financial regulation, examination and enforcement response, licensing applications, control testing and validation, and product strategy.

Prior to joining Tölt Strategies, Paul served as Director of Operations for DJC Digital, a buyer-focused digital asset brokerage and M&A advisory firm. He was responsible for designing and implementing new product strategies, AI-driven deal sourcing processes, and a proprietary data analytics infrastructure to deliver actionable M&A intelligence and insights to private equity firms, family offices, and other professional acquirers of software, data, and eCommerce businesses.

Earlier in his career, Paul served as a Manager in PwC’s New York City consulting practice, leading large teams to plan and execute growth strategy, operational optimization, technology transformation, and risk management engagements for Fortune 500 financial services clients. He has extensive experience implementing regulatory compliance initiatives in response to Volcker Rule, Dodd-Frank Act, FINRA 4210, MiFID II, and SEA Rule 15c3-3 legislation.

Rajesh Virassamy

Email: Rajesh.Virassamy@toltstrategies.com

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Education

University of Maryland, MA and MBA

College of Engineering, Guindy (India) B.S.

Rajesh Virassamy is a senior regulatory leader with more than 15 years’ experience across the CFTC and SEC, serving as Senior Swap Consultant/Subject Matter Expert (SME) at both agencies. He has deep expertise in swap regulation, reporting frameworks, and derivatives surveillance across all asset classes and major swap data repositories, and substantial experience conducting forensic data analysis to support enforcement actions, sanctions compliance, and regulatory examinations.

At the SEC, Rajesh was Swap Surveillance Program Consultant in the Division of Examination. Among his responsibilities in this role, he designed and implemented forensic surveillance models for equity swaps and total return swaps; integrated equity order book data with swap positions to detect cross-market manipulation and disruptive trading patterns; led the initiative to ensure timeliness, consistency, completeness and accuracy dimensions are followed in the swap data submission to the Commission; and he analyzed CDS auction reporting data to assess settlement integrity and investigated “manufactured default” scenarios to detect opportunistic credit event triggers.

Prior to that role, Rajesh was Senior Swap Consultant with the CFTC. There, among other duties, he led a cross-divisional rollout of the CFTC 2.0 specification across five asset classes (interest rate swaps (IRS), credit default swaps (CDS), FX, equities and commodities), enabling consistent and accurate swap reporting; led technical analysis for the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition, evaluating the impact on interest rate swap IRS valuations across legacy portfolios; analyzed large-scale datasets to detect potential benchmark rigging and disruptive trading practices, providing critical evidence for enforcement actions; built exposure reports and tracking solutions for the CFTC chairman, covering exposures across products, counterparties, currencies, and tenors; and he directed the cross-divisional rollout of the CFTC 2.0 specification for IRS, CDS, FX, and commodities to ensure accurate regulatory reporting.

Seth Hunter

Email: seth.hunter@toltstrategies.com

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Education

George Washington University Law School, Juris Doctorate

Carnegie Mellon University, B.A.

Seth C. Hunter is a financial services professional with over 12 years’ experience in regulatory advisory services. He has worked extensively with multinational financial services as a management consultant and project manager, working on initiatives at various levels of client sensitivity, timeline, and complexity. Seth’s engagements have been driven by everything from new industry-wide regulatory change, client-specific enforcement actions, risk and controls assessments, and various internal initiatives.

Seth’s experience as a management consultant for PwC’s advisory practice began in 2013. His initial work was largely driven by clients’ need to adhere to regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act, with work projects particularly focused on Title VII and swap-dealer compliance. Since that time his work has included a wide variety of subject matter, including domestic and international regulations, consent orders, and internal initiatives driven by business, operational, or technological changes, engaging with clients based in New York, London, and Charlotte. In support of his client work, he also has experience in business development and thought leadership, driving growth and innovation.

Prior to his time with PwC, Seth earned his Juris Doctorate degree from George Washington University Law School. During law school, Seth had a number of professional experiences and internships, including work for the Enforcement Division of the SEC, financial services think tanks in the Washington, D.C. area, including Americans for Financial Reform, and the City of Chicago Building Department Enforcement Division. Prior to law school, Seth worked as an architect in New York City.

Email: stephen.lurie@toltstrategies.com

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Education

George Washington University, MBA

Lehigh University, B.A.

Stephen Lurie brings more than 40 years of experience in compliance risk management and internal compliance audits for financial services companies to Tölt Strategies. He has helped banks, broker-dealers, investment firms, their advisers and other financial institutions strengthen compliance frameworks and navigate complex regulatory requirements. With deep knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements, expertise in sanctions administered and enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and decades of compliance testing experience, Lurie guides clients in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance. 

Among other executive-level roles, Stephen served as director of AML and sanctions at PwC for more than 20 years, where he led engagement teams responsible for establishing, enhancing and remediating BSA/AML and sanctions compliance programs. He also served as executive director and head of BSA/AML and sanctions compliance testing at UBS, where he established and ran the compliance testing unit and developed a BSA/AML and sanctions testing program covering all U.S. business units. Lurie later re-established the anti-financial crimes practice at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as the firm’s director and anti-financial crimes leader for two years. Earlier he served as lead international sanctions auditor at Crédit Agricole CIB. 

Lurie’s experience includes performing independent program assessments that evaluated control design and tested operational effectiveness; conducting consent order validations of matters requiring attention and matters requiring immediate attention at U.S. and international banks; and completing numerous broker-dealer BSA/AML and OFAC compliance risk assessments. He has conducted Dodd-Frank assessment reviews at regional retail, international and capital markets banks, focusing on consumer and mortgage activities, derivatives and the Volcker Rule. He has also developed policies and procedures covering high-yield bonds and loan syndications, insider and employee trading, front-running, investment adviser codes of ethics, hot issues and suitability. 

Stephen is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) through the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). He is also a Certified Cryptocurrency Trader™ (CCT). 

Email: thomas.dunlap@toltstrategies.com

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Education

Columbia University, B.A. 

Thomas Dunlap (Tom) brings more than 36 years of financial services experience focused on a range of data issues and services to Tölt Strategies. He specializes in data governance, management, and quality, as well as broader operational and technical innovation, transformation, digitization, and visualization capabilities.

Earlier in his career, Tom was Group Chief Data Officer of the London Stock Exchange Group. In that role he was responsible for developing and executing the strategic frameworks for enterprise data governance, master data management, records management, and data insight and analysis. He also served in several senior operations and data leadership roles at Goldman Sachs for 18 years, culminating as Managing Director of Operations and Global Head of Enterprise Data Strategy.

Showing his commitment to the effective growth and best practices in the industry, Tom has contributed his expertise to industry groups and government committees. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow with the Data Foundation, and he serves on the advisory board for DeepSee.ai. Previously, Tom Dunlap was a two-term member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research, and he served on the Board of Directors of the Enterprise Data Management Council.