John Rymas
Analysis and Detection Investigator, Market Abuse Unit (Enforcement Division) @U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission
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WORK HISTORY
Analysis and Detection Investigator, Market Abuse Unit (Enforcement Division) @U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission
Philadelphia, PA, US
As an original member of the Market Abuse Unit’s Analysis and Detection Center, a licensed CPA, and the first and only Analysis and Detection Investigator in the history of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, my job is to generate new investigative leads using staff-developed, in-house data analytics, and to work closely with the agency’s attorneys to solve and prove existing investigations, Division-wide.Focusing primarily on trading-related investigations since 2005 (including insider trading, hack-to-trade, front running, cherry picking, and manipulations), as of December 2025, I have participated in the investigations of over 150 filed trading-related cases, representing over $490 million in aggregate charged ill-gotten gains.Most (over 100) of these filed cases originated as my investigative leads.For a sample of (over 200) relevant press releases and litigation releases, use Google search: rymas site:sec.govAs an investigator, I have worked on numerous filed cases related to highly-organized, serial, multi-million-dollar trading schemes, frequently involving conduct by securities industry professionals, lawyers, I.T. employees, and overseas individuals. Many of these cases involved parallel criminal actions.Several of my cases have been the first-ever or largest-ever matters of their kind, or were otherwise noteworthy with respect to case type, origin, and/or outcome. For a small sample, see public links in my Publications section.After graduating from college a year ahead of schedule, I began my SEC employment at the bottom, as a GS-7 Step 1 Securities Compliance Examiner, at age 21, in February (total annual salary at that time:$27,618). After spending five years in the Exam (‘40 Act, IA/IC) program, in January 2004, I moved to the Enforcement Division, first working as a Staff Accountant, and later, as an Investigator (starting December 2008), before joining the Market Abuse Unit (in November 2012) in my present position.
EDUCATION
Villanova School of Business
Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance
ABOUT JOHN RYMAS
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