Michelle Oroschakoff

Michelle Oroschakoff is a recognized executive leader in the financial services industry, with more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of enterprise risk management, legal and regulatory, and business operations. She has been the Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Legal Officer for two large publicly traded wealth management companies, as well as serving as the General Counsel for a large independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA).

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Focus Financial Partners and is chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. She is also a consult to Domify AI, a regulatory technology start-up that is focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to build regulatory technology, including an AI co-pilot that seeks to simplify regulatory complexities by structuring unstructured data, providing consideration, explanations, and documentation of recommendations, and making the jobs of financial advisors, compliance officers, supervisors and regulators easier and more effective. It is backed by DVx Ventures, a venture studio.

In her most recent role as the Chief Legal Officer for LPL Financial (LPLA), a Fortune 500 financial services firm with more than 28,000 financial advisors, including advisors at approximately 1,100 institution-based investment programs, Michelle reported to the Chief Executive Officer, and was responsible for risk management, compliance oversight, supervision of advisors, and enterprise resiliency, as well as all legal functions.

Before joining LPL, Michelle held various senior roles in risk, compliance and legal at Morgan Stanley (MS), including serving as the first Global Chief Risk Officer for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM). She also served as the Chief Administrative Officer and before that as the Global Chief Compliance Officer for MSWM. In these roles, she had global responsibility for risk management and controls, with teams in the US, Asia, and EMEA. Earlier in her career, she was the head of the MSWM West Coast Litigation Department and spent several years as the first General Counsel for Fisher Investments, a large privately held RIA. She began her career in private practice where she represented issuers and financial institutions in defense of securities class action matters.

Michelle is the immediate past president of the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Compliance & Legal Society and served as a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Large Firm Advisory Committee.
Michelle has a BA in English Literature from the University of Oregon, and a JD from the University of Michigan (cum laude, Order of the Coif).