Scott C. Kursman

Scott C. Kursman is a Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and the Citibank N.A., Swap Dealer. Prior to joining Citi in 2009, Scott was Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Global Compliance at Lehman Brothers and a Director at Barclays Capital. Between 1998 and 2005, Scott served as Vice President/Associate General Counsel for the Securities Industry Association (now SIFMA) where he advised member firms and advocated for regulatory changes in the area of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology and regulation, equity and options trading and general compliance and supervision. Prior to 1998, Scott was an Associate Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Prudential Securities with responsibility for advising the firm’s equity trading unit. Scott began his legal career at the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1992 as an attorney-adviser in the Division of Market Regulation (now Trading and Markets) where he worked on marketplace rules for the government bond, municipal bond, listed and OTC equity, and listed options markets.

An active industry participant and frequent conference speaker, Scott currently serves as President of SIFMA’s Compliance & Legal Society Executive Committee and as a member of SIFMA’s Compliance & Regulatory Policy Committee. Scott is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston University School of Law, is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations and holds FINRA Series 7, 14, 24 and 65 licenses.