Gail Merken

Gail Merken is the Chief Compliance Officer for Fidelity’s Brokerage and Wealth businesses. In this role, Gail leads the compliance teams responsible for all aspects of compliance in Fidelity’s retail broker, advisory and insurance businesses. Prior to her current role, Gail was Vice President of the Fidelity Brokerage Services General Compliance organization where she provided leadership for a large team responsible for broker dealer compliance including, new product development, distribution to retail and retirement customers, regulatory management, new regulation implementation, supervision and surveillance, ethics, and internal controls.
Gail began her career at Fidelity in Shareholder Accounting and worked in Risk and Compliance for Fidelity’s institutional businesses before moving to the retail business. Gail received a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.