Richard Holley III is the Acting Associate Director overseeing the Office of Market Supervision in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading & Markets, which focuses on trading venues and securities market structure.
Prior to joining the Commission in 2004, Richard was a ’40 Act attorney at Dechert LLP and before that he worked at a market research agency in Prague, Czech Republic. Richard graduated magna cum laude from Bates College and received his J.D., with honors, from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law.
