Dan Gallagher is the chief legal, compliance, and corporate affairs officer of Robinhood Markets, Inc., a fast-growing brokerage giving millions of people access to our financial system. Previously, Gallagher was partner and deputy chair of the Securities Department at WilmerHale. Gallagher was a commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (2011–2015) as well as a deputy director and coacting director of the Division of Trading and Markets. Gallagher has also served as the chief legal officer at Mylan NV and as the president of a financial services consulting firm. Gallagher is a board member of NACD. He served on the board of Symbiont and was formerly a nonexecutive director of the Irish Stock Exchange. He is also on the advisory boards for the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Corporate Governance, part of the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute in Drexel University's LeBow College of Business.