R.J. O’Brien Announces Promotion of Christopher Bove to Chief Compliance Officer

R.J. O'Brien & Associates LLC (RJO), the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, has promoted Christopher Bove to Chief Compliance Officer.

Bove brings nearly 20-year experience in market regulation, compliance, law enforcement and legal analysis. Before this position, he served since November 2020 as RJO’s Director, Compliance, after joining the firm in 2019 as Associate Director, Compliance.

Bove was an Investigator, then Senior Investigator and ultimately Lead Investigator in CME Group’s Market Regulation department from 2012 to 2019. Prior to joining CME, he was a legal analyst for FactRight, LLC, a due diligence and risk management consulting firm. Bove spent a decade as a police officer, the later years as a member of the SWAT team, in the Chicago Police Department, earning his undergraduate and law degrees while serving in the force.

Commenting on the appointment, RJO Chairman and CEO Gerald Corcoran said: “Chris is an outstanding compliance officer with a deep background in the rules and regulatory landscape governing our firm, brokers and industry. His career path at RJO and elevation to CCO is a great example of our long history of recruiting some of the best talent in the industry, building on their skills and promoting from within. Chris has already demonstrated strong leadership skills at the firm, with a vision and plan for growing his talented team and this critical discipline within our organization.”

 “This is an exciting time as we continue to grow our talented team of professionals and put into place important technology platforms that offer us tremendous new capabilities and efficiencies. From the Eventus Systems trade surveillance platform we implemented last year, to a state-of-the-art communications surveillance platform we are working to deploy in the coming year, our compliance function remains one of the strongest in the industry”, Bove said.