C. Robert Paul

From October 1999 through January 2001, Mr. Paul served as General Counsel to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he advised the Chairman and Commissioners regarding legislation, regulations and rulemaking, litigation, adjudication and ethics and supervised the CTFC's appellate litigation. After representing the CFTC in negotiations with the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the content of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets’ report on 'Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets and the Commodity Exchange Act' (November 1999), he led the CFTC's negotiations with the SEC to construct a joint regulatory scheme to permit trading security futures in the US, which was incorporated into the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 passed by Congress last December.

Mr. Paul previously served as in-house counsel to Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation from 1997 to 1999.