Michael Williams,
 Managing Director of Credit-Suisse and former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton
Dan Crowley,
Partner at K&L Gates and former counsel to House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Diwakar Jagannath,
CEO of New York commodities firm IKON Global Markets
David Lipton,
Director of  Securities Program at the Catholic University Columbus School of Law
Chris Lombardy,
Member of fund consulting firm Kinetic Partners

Their bios can be found below:
 
Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Public Policy Americas division, based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Williams joined Credit Suisse in February 2007 from The Bond Market Association/ Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Washington, D.C. office, where he was Senior Vice President. In this capacity, he was responsible for representing the Association's views to various congressional committee and regulators. In addition, he oversaw the Association's close working relationships with state and local governments and their representative organizations. Mr. Williams also served a Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He also served as a staff member of the New York State Assembly and Senate. Mr. Williams holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Masters in Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He also holds a MBA from the University of Maryland. 

Dan Crowley
Dan Crowley is a partner at the law firm of K&L Gates. Prior to joining K&L Gates, for five years Mr. Crowley was Chief Government Affairs Officer at the Investment Company Institute, the national association of the mutual fund industry.  Previously, Mr. Crowley was Vice President and Managing Director, Office of Government Relations, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ).  He joined NASDAQ after managing government relations during the spin-off of NASDAQ from its former parent, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD).  Before joining NASD as Vice President, Governmental Affairs, Mr. Crowley served for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives in increasingly senior staff positions, including:  General Counsel, Office of the Speaker; General Counsel, Committee on House Oversight, and; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration. Mr. Crowley holds a BS, MPM and a JD from the University of Maryland.

Diwakar Jagannath
Diwakar Jagannath has over twenty years experience as a commodities trader, and is currently the CEO of IKON Global Markets, which provides trading services to the commodities marketplace. A 20 year veteran of the financial industry, Mr. Jagannath has held management positions with several major financial institutions, including Scotia Mocatta, Salomon Smith Barney, and CITIGROUP.  He has successfully started and managed 3 independent companies in the trading and financial markets arena.  He holds day to day management responsibilities in both trading and operations, and is responsible for strategic growth, negotiating strategic alliances with financial institutions and exchanges in India, China, Dubai and other emerging economies.  He has been invited to speak on technology and emerging markets at such prestigious events as: Burgenstock (Switzerland) meeting of the International Derivatives Forum; 2008 Futures Industry Association annual meeting at Boca Raton; International Gold Forum, Mumbai, India.  He has worked extensively with regulators to enhance oversight in the derivatives marketplace and has lectured at MIT Sloane School of Management on FX derivatives and risk management.

David Lipton
David Lipton is a professor of law at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law where he teaches securities regulation, corporate finance, and corporations. He also is the director of the Law School's Securities Regulation Program. Professor Lipton received his B.A. degree from Cornell University, an M.A. in public law and government from Columbia University, and his J.D. from Michigan School of Law. After practicing law in New York, Professor Lipton began his teaching career at Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he taught corporations, contracts and agency law. He was accepted as a visiting Attorney Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission where he served in the Division of Market Regulation. Professor Lipton created the Law School's Securities Program which offers a certificate in Securities Regulation.  He was also instrumental in forming and maintaining the school's active Securities Alumni Practice Group as well as the Student Securities Law Association and the Securities Regulation Moot Court Competition. Professor Lipton is frequently quoted in newspapers, radio and television in matters relating to securities market regulation, broker-dealer regulation, securities arbitration, insider trading, and the impact of technology on securities regulation. He has been elected to serve as chair, vice chair and member of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar's Section on Corporations, Finance and Securities.  He has chaired and served as a member of the National Association of Securities Dealer's National Arbitration Committee. Professor Lipton has served two separate terms on the NASD's (now FINRA's) National Market Regulation Committee, in addition to one term on its National Adjudicatory Committee. He is currently serving as a director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. Since the 1980s, he has chaired arbitration panels for the New York Stock Exchange and the NASD. He frequently conducts programs at the law school and with the D.C. Bar on matters relating to securities, corporate governance, arbitration and securities trading.  Professor Lipton has lectured and taught courses at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington Law School, the SEC, The Beijing National College of Judges, the University of Bologna, Jagiellonian University, the Economic Academy of Krakow, the University of Bialystok, Wroclow University, and the University of Torun. He regularly teaches a training program on Broker-Dealer Supervision for the NASD/Wharton School's Institute for Professional Development.  For the past several years, Professor Lipton has devoted his scholarly activities to his twice annually updated Treatise on Broker-Dealer Regulation. This treatise is considered the standard reference guide in the securities legal community. 

Chris Lombardy
Chris Lombardy is a member of Kinetic Partners, a hedge fund consulting firm based in London, with offices in Dublin, Geneva, the Cayman Islands and New York. Prior to joining Kinetic partners, Mr. Lombardy was a Principal at Spectrum Global Solutions and Breakwater Compliance Partners. He has also served as Chief Compliance Officer and Legal Counsel for SG Asset Management, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisor, and fund-of-hedge funds manager from 2004 to 2005. From 2002 to 2004, he was an associate at the New York law firm of Sadis & Goldberg, where he worked exclusively in the Financial Services group specializing in the hedge fund, investment adviser and broker dealer practice. He began his career in 1998 at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a Goldman Sachs company, in the Prime Brokerage Department. Mr. Lombardy holds a JD degree from St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, FL, and an MBA in Finance and a BA in International Finance from American University, Washington, DC.