[ by Melanie Gretchen ]

The SEC has promoted from within to name the agency's new Associate Director of the Office of Analytics and Research in the Division of Trading and Markets.  Gregg Berman will oversee the office established in 2012 to conduct research and analysis that will help inform the Commission’s policies on markets and market structure.

Mr. Berman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, before receiving his doctorate in physics from Princeton University.  Before he joined the SEC, Mr. Berman was a co-founding partner of New York-based RiskMetrics Group, focused on risk management, corporate governance, and financial research and analysis.

He joined the SEC in October 2009 as a senior advisor in the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation.  Since 2010, he has been a senior advisor to the Director of the Division of Trading and Markets.  In his new role, he will provide expertise in quantitative data analysis, trading, portfolio management, and risk management, and will examine a wide variety of topics, ranging from market structure to new products and rule filings by exchanges.

"Gregg’s analytical expertise and market background make him a tremendous asset for our new Office of Analytics and Research.  In his time at the SEC, Gregg has worked on many complex issues, including an analysis of the causes of the May 6, 2011, ‘flash crash,’ on rulemaking to create a Consolidated Audit Trail, and on the many new rules for derivatives trading required by the Dodd-Frank Act." -- John Ramsay, Acting Director of the Division of Trading and Markets.
 

For further details, go to [SEC Press Release 2013-6, 1/15/13].