Richard Holley III serves as an Assistant Director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Trading & Markets’ Office of Market Supervision, where he focuses on national securities exchanges and market structure for equities and listed options. Prior to the Commission, Mr. Holley was an associate attorney in the Financial Services Group at Dechert LLP, where he focused on investment company regulation. Prior to that, Mr. Holley was a Senior Project Executive at a market research agency in Prague, Czech Republic. Mr. Holley 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.