Douglas E. Harris was a managing director in the New York office of Promontory Financial Group from 2004 to 2021. At Promontory, he assisted clients in regulatory matters involving risk management, investment products, derivatives, capital markets and complex structured transactions, compliance, general corporate governance, and strategic advisory matters.
Formerly, he was the general counsel and chief operating officer of BrokerTec Futures Exchange and BrokerTec Clearing Company. Before joining BrokerTec, Doug was a partner in the Regulatory Risk Services Group at Arthur Andersen.
From 1993 to 1996, he held the position of senior deputy comptroller for capital markets at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He was responsible for the regulation and supervision of national bank capital markets activities, including trading, dealing and investing in derivatives and emerging markets instruments, as well as the development of risk management policies and guidelines. He also served on the Inter-Agency Task Force on Bank-Related Derivatives Activities and as senior staff member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Previously, Doug served as assistant general counsel of JPMorgan and general counsel of JPMorgan Futures, Inc.
Doug is a director of the National Futures Association, the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry. He is also a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association (Structured Products and Derivatives Law Committee), the American Bar Association (Committee on the Regulation of Futures and Derivatives), the Law & Compliance Division of the Futures Industry Association, and the Financial Markets Association.