Eileen T. Flaherty, Class of 1983

Global head of compliance for the world’s largest futures brokerage firm

Eileen Flaherty is the Global Head of Compliance and Financial Crimes Prevention for Newedge, a premier global agency broker and clearing house. Prior to joining Newedge, she served as Managing Director of the Global Capital Group from 2004 to 2011. She previously held senior legal and compliance positions at several financial services firms, including DRW Holdings, Fimat USA and Harris Insight Funds, Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., Inc., the CME and the National Futures Association. While at the CME, she served on a Futures Industry Association task force focused on financial integrity recommendations for futures and options markets and market participants that included representatives of major international exchanges and clearinghouses, brokers and intermediaries and customers from 17 jurisdictions. She frequently speaks on legal and compliance issues related to exchange-traded derivatives and other financial services and occasionally writes on such topics as well.