Wendy E. Robinson

Wendy E. Robinson is General Counsel and Secretary of RealVol LLC and RealDay Options Corporation. She has worked for over 30 years in the financial services industry, serving most recently as General Counsel for Event Capital Markets. This is a boutique firm performing independent due diligence on hedge funds. Prior to this, she was Senior Counsel in PaineWebber’s Legal Department, specializing in derivative transactions, stock lending, and corporate governance. Ms. Robinson was a partner engaged in general practice with the law firm of Pfeffer, Storm & Robinson in San Francisco, California. Ms. Robinson also worked in the Legal Departments of Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch Futures, and E.F. Hutton, as well as in the Options Department of E.F. Hutton. She also served as arbitration counsel with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and as staff counsel in the Trading and Markets Division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Ms. Robinson graduated summa cum laude from the University of Bridgeport and received her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law — Newark. Ms. Robinson is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, and California, and admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Northern District of California, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has served as a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) Business Conduct Committee for 14 years. Most recently she has been serving as chairperson of hearing panels of the NFA Hearing Committee.