Board of Advisors

Charles V. Senatore

 

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Head of Risk Oversight, 
Devonshire Investors

Chuck Senatore is an executive vice president and head of risk oversight for Devonshire Investors, a unit within Fidelity Investments.  Devonshire Investors focuses on long-term investments in operating companies and real estate, as well as the management of private venture funds. 

Mr. Senatore oversees the compliance, legal, regulatory and risk related functions for Devonshire’s constituent businesses.  In earlier roles at Fidelity, he led the firm’s global compliance and ethics function and served as the firm’s head of regulatory coordination and strategy.  

Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Senatore was Co-Head of Global Compliance at Merrill Lynch, and led the firm’s Regulatory Affairs Group.  He also served as Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Southeast Region,

Prior to his service at the Commission, Mr. Senatore was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Public Corruption Section in the Southern District of Florida.

Mr. Senatore is a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and of the American Law Institute.  He previously was Chair of FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Society of Compliance Professionals.  He also teaches Compliance and Regulatory Strategy at the University of Chicago Law School. 

Mr. Senatore received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Williams College and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.