Byron Georgiou

"[2] With Coughlin Stoia and Robbins Geller since 2000, he has had a leadership role in the litigations prosecuting financial fraud on behalf of defrauded investors at Enron, WorldCom, Dynegy, AOL Time Warner, and UnitedHealth.

[1][3] He is currently president of Georgiou Enterprises, which has wide-ranging interests including partnerships in several private equity firms, a portfolio of carbon emission reduction projects in China that generate carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol, environmental cleanup of deep coal mining sites, residential and commercial real estate and golf course management and development, and the provision of customer services at regional shopping centers throughout America.

[2] Georgiou was one of three appointees by United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the FCIC, along with fellow Nevada resident Heather Murren and Sen. Bob Graham, (D-FL).

At the time of Georgiou's appointment to the commission, concerns were raised about a conflict of interest, pointing to Coughlin Stoia lawsuits against big Wall Street firms.

He emphasized that the Commission should probe the role played by financial instruments and policies which allowed the creators of securities to abandon responsibility for the ultimate performance or failure of assets.