Expertise:
Corporate finance, commercial credit, bank regulation, enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, digital assets
Chris Gottfried is an instructor of finance at William & Mary’s Mason School of Business and faculty director of the corporate compliance program at the William & Mary Law School. He has more than 15 years of experience in finance and law as a banker, attorney and consultant. His focus is banking law, regulatory compliance and operational risk, and he has extensive experience building compliance programs and managing enterprise-level projects for Fortune 100 companies. In addition to serving on the faculty at W&M, Professor Gottfried is chief compliance officer of Hopscotch Labs, a digital assets technology company, where he’s responsible for building a comprehensive compliance program and leading the VASP license application process for Hopscotch’s Irish and Lithuanian affiliates. He previously held roles within banking and the Big 4, where his work involved the intersection of regulatory compliance and operational risk management. Past clients include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Raymond James and Bank of America. He obtained his J.D. and MBA from William & Mary and a B.A. in economics and international studies from Wake Forest.