J. Christopher Giancarlo
| J. Christopher Giancarlo | |
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| Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; acting chair a/o January 20, 2017; nominated chair a/o March 14, 2017 | |
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Assumed office June 16, 2014 |
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| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Jill E. Sommers |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1959 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Skidmore College, Vanderbilt University Law School |
J. Christopher "Chris" Giancarlo (born May 12, 1959) is an American attorney, former business executive and current Commissioner of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo was sworn in as a CFTC commissioner on June 16, 2014 for a term expiring on April 13, 2019. Starting January 20, 2017, with President Donald Trump's inauguration, Giancarlo began serving as acting chair of the CFTC. In March 2017, the president nominated Giancarlo to be full-time chair of the commission.
Chris Giancarlo was born on May 12, 1959 in Jersey City, New Jersey to a family of physicians, nurses, and small business owners. He has four brothers, including Charles Giancarlo, an entrepreneur, investor, and former senior executive of Cisco Systems and Board Chairman of Avaya.
Giancarlo received primary and secondary education at the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey from 1970 to 1977. He attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he graduated with college and Government Department Honors. At Skidmore, Giancarlo was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Winter Term Scholarship Committee and a contributing editor to Politea magazine. In 1984, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was an associate research editor at the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and President of the Law School’s International Law Society. Since 1985, Giancarlo has been a member of the Bar of the State of New York.
From 2001 to 2014, Giancarlo served as the Executive Vice President of GFI Group Inc., an intermediary in the global over-the-counter and listed markets that offers trading technologies and products to financial market participants(NYSE: GFIG). Giancarlo was responsible for GFI's strategic transactions and relationships, including mergers and acquisitions, equity finance, investment banking, strategy development, analyst and investor communications and government relations. During his tenure, Giancarlo directed GFI's initial public offering in 2005 and led the acquisition strategies of Trayport Limited and Amerex Brokers LLC.
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