Douglas E. Harris is a Managing Director in the New York office of Promontory Financial Group, L.L.C., where he advises banks, hedge funds and futures commission merchants and other types of financial institutions on regulatory, compliance, risk management, derivatives and capital markets issues. Formerly, he was the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of BrokerTec Futures Exchange, L.L.C. and BrokerTec Clearing Company, L.L.C. Before joining BrokerTec, Mr. Harris was a partner in the Regulatory Risk Services and Derivatives and Treasury Risk Managements Groups at Arthur Andersen LLP. From 1993 to 1996, he held the position of Senior Deputy Comptroller for Capital Markets at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Previously, Mr. Harris served as Assistant General Counsel of JPMorgan and General Counsel of JPMorgan Futures, Inc.
Mr. Harris is a Director of the National Futures Association, the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. futures industry, where he is a member of the Executive Committee, the Audit Committee and the Compliance Consultative Committee. He is also a member of the; 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.