Chuck Senatore is head of corporate compliance for Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. He is responsible for overseeing the fulfillment of regulatory requirements across Fidelity's investment management, investment advisory, institutional and brokerage businesses.
Prior to joining Fidelity in May 2003, Mr. Senatore served as co-head of Global Compliance at Merrill Lynch, after having served as head of the firm's Regulatory Affairs Group. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Senatore served as director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Southeast Region.
Prior to his service at the Commission, Mr. Senatore practiced law in South Florida, and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, including service as chief of that office's Public Corruption Section.
Mr. Senatore received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Williams College and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Senatore has spoken and written on various securities laws subjects. He is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the National Society of Compliance Professionals, and serves on FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council. He also serves on the SIFMA Compliance and Regulatory Policy Committee, the FINRA Compliance Advisory Committee and the ICI Chief Compliance Officer Committee. He served previously as chair of the National Society of Compliance Professionals' Investment Adviser Committee, chair of the NASD's District 10 Business Committee in New York, as well as an adjunct professor of Securities Regulation at the University of Miami Law School.