1. Timothy George Massad was born on July 30,1956 and is an American lawyer and government official who served as the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama.
16 Facts About Timothy Massad
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Timothy Massad briefly joined the staff of TARP's Congressional Oversight Panel before moving to the Office of Financial Stability as chief counsel.
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Timothy Massad was born July 30,1956, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Timothy Massad's mother, Delores Jean Razook, was a homemaker, and his father, Alexander Hamilton Massad, was an executive in the oil industry, mostly at Mobil.
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Timothy Massad graduated from Darien High School in 1974 as a National Merit Scholar and interned with a Congressman.
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Dissatisfied with his employers' grasp of business and economics, Timothy Massad enrolled at Harvard Law School in 1981.
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Timothy Massad was mostly based in New York City, but he worked at Cravath's London office for a year and co-managed the Hong Kong office from 1998 to 2002.
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Timothy Massad became involved in TARP when he called a friend, Damon Silvers, to congratulate him on being named to the program's Congressional Oversight Panel.
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Timothy Massad took a leave of absence from Cravath from December 2008 to February 2009 to be a pro bono legal adviser to the panel.
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Timothy Massad left Cravath in May 2009 to take the position.
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Timothy Massad announced in October 2013 that he would resign as Assistant Secretary.
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The next month, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Timothy Massad to be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates derivatives.
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Timothy Massad is a longtime donor to the Democratic National Committee and to Democratic candidates, including John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.
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Timothy Massad was active in the anti-nuclear movement in the years before he went to law school, organizing with Donald K Ross a large protest in Washington, DC, on May 6,1979, in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident.
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Timothy Massad was a voting delegate at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, where Dukakis was nominated for president, and took a leave of absence from Cravath to serve as Connecticut director of the Dukakis campaign for the general election.
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Timothy Massad is known at Treasury for running a baking contest among his staff.