Gene DeMaio

Gene DeMaio is the Head of Regulatory Services Management in FINRA's Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) Department and is responsible for managing FINRA’s relationships with securities exchanges and other entities for which FINRA performs regulatory services.  Prior to this role, Mr. DeMaio led the Options Regulation and Trading & Execution Examinations Programs in Market Regulation.

Prior to joining FINRA, Mr. DeMaio was an Options Market Maker at the American Stock Exchange, and earlier worked as an attorney at Kord Lagemann, where he represented complainants in securities arbitration disputes. Mr. DeMaio is a graduate of Fordham Law and earned his LL.M. at New York University.  Mr. DeMaio is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law and Stetson Law where he teaches classes on market structure and options trading and regulation, as well as a compliance capstone program.