Richard Gabbert

Richard Gabbert is Chief of Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force. From 2018 to January of this year, he was counsel to Commissioner Hester Peirce. Prior to joining the Commissioner’s office, he was a Senior Special Counsel in the Office of Derivatives Policy in the Division of Trading and Markets at the SEC, where he focused on the implementation of derivatives market reforms required by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. He has been involved extensively in several Title VII rulemakings, including rules defining security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants and rules addressing the cross-border regulation of derivatives markets.