Biography
Elaine H. Mandelbaum is General Counsel of Interactive Brokers LLC and Senior Vice President of IBG LLC, an automated global electronic broker-dealer. In her role, she is responsible for the global legal team of Interactive Brokers. Prior to starting at Interactive Brokers in 2019, Elaine worked for Citigroup for over 20 years, most recently as Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations for Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG). Earlier in her career, Elaine was a litigation attorney at the New York office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, and previously at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Elaine is the immediate past President of the SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society, and has served on SIFMA C&L’s Executive Committee for over a decade. Elaine was a member of FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council from 2015-2017, serving as Vice Chair in 2017. Elaine serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Action Center and of the National Council of Jewish Women, and is a past recipient of the “Woman Who Dared” Award from the NCJW.
Elaine is a frequent speaker at PLI, SIFMA and other industry conferences on topics relating to complex securities litigation, corporate governance, internal and regulatory investigations and issues relating to women in the securities industry. She is an honors graduate of Yale College and of Harvard Law School.