J. Christopher Giancarlo, CFTC Commissioner
Recently confirmed CFTC Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo has appointed Jason Goggins and Marcia Blase to his senior staff, as chief of staff and chief counsel, respectively.
Giancarlo is one of three new commissioners who joined the CFTC last month, following U.S. Senate confirmation. Formerly, he was an executive vice president at the GFI Group, a New York-based interdealer broker.
Goggins, Giancarlo’s new chief of staff, comes to the CFTC from the majority staff of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, chaired by Frank Lucas (R-OK), where he served as senior professional staff and counsel, and was responsible for all issues related to the CFTC, Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, and oversight of the swaps and futures markets, according to a CFTC statement. He also was the primary staffer responsible for drafting bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the CFTC, according to the statement.
Prior to his service on the House Agriculture Committee, Goggins was a counsel on the House Committee on Financial Services, where he worked on multiple titles of the Dodd-Frank Act, the JOBS Act, and handled issues relating to the derivatives markets, accounting, corporate governance, municipal finance, and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, also known as TARP. He served previously as the press secretary for U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL).
Blase, the new chief counsel, joins Giancarlo’s office from the CFTC’s division of swap dealer and intermediary oversight, where she served as special counsel.
Previously, she served in the CFTC’s office of general counsel and as a counsel to CFTC Chairmen James E. Newsome and Reuben Jeffery, III, as well as Commissioners Jill E. Sommers and Frederick W. Hatfield.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Blase held various positions with the federal courts, and also was an adjunct professor of law for the research, writing and advocacy program at Emory University School of Law.
“The diverse breadth of knowledge and experience that Jason and Marcia bring to my office will be invaluable as we face numerous outstanding issues before the Commission,” Giancarlo says in a prepared statement. “Not only will they help me ensure that the Dodd-Frank Act is implemented responsibly, but they will help me advocate for policies that foster competitive markets to better serve the farmers, manufacturers, energy firms, and utilities that are America’s job creators.”
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