Tom Eady is a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He advises on a wide range of fixed income issues, including market structure and market practices. Most recently, Tom has played a key role in launching the SEC’s new Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC). Tom also works with SEC rulemaking teams on the implementation of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. Before joining the SEC, Tom was an independent public policy advocate for OTC derivatives market reforms, focused on bringing greater price transparency to the OTC derivatives markets through real-time trade reporting and public dissemination of trade-level details. In addition to his 8 years of public service at the SEC, Tom has over 25 years of securities industry experience as an institutional fixed-income and derivatives marketer for two leading global securities dealers, and as a co-founder and senior executive for the leading global electronic trading network for fixed income securities and OTC derivatives.