Carolyn Welshhans

While at the SEC, Carolyn supervised numerous significant enforcement actions that covered the entire breadth of the SEC enforcement program, including public company disclosure, accounting, and internal controls violations, cybersecurity, investment advisers, broker-dealers, market structure, unregistered offerings involving crypto assets and other securities, insider trading, and manipulative trading.

Her responsibilities included conducting parallel investigations with US criminal authorities, international regulators, self-regulatory organizations, and other federal and state agencies; responding to or briefing congressional members and committees, US Treasury Department officials, and other federal agencies; advising on key SEC rulemaking initiatives; and overseeing the division’s group dedicated to the use of market and data analytics in investigations.

Carolyn frequently writes and speaks about SEC enforcement and regulatory developments.

Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Welshhans was in private practice. She received her J.D. from the Boston College Law School, and she received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary.