Tom Manganello is a senior counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA). In that role, He helps to coordinate investor education throughout the SEC’s headquarters and 10 regional offices. He researches, writes, and disseminates an extensive library of plain-language investor education tools and resources on the SEC’s website, Investor.gov.

He is a subject-matter expert on saving, investing, and avoiding scams, and has been a featured lecturer, panelist, moderator, and social media communicator for 10 years. He regularly guest lectures on “Building Wealth Through Saving and Investing” to college and high school audiences, and he speaks to organizations and groups representing novice investors, including returning citizens.

He has conducted hundreds of financial readiness briefs at military installations around the world, and he highlights the red flags of investment scams and steps to protect investments in his “Never Stop Learning” presentations at libraries, senior centers, and community events. 

He is an attorney who spent 10 years in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, where he investigated violations of the federal securities laws, including insider trading, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, accounting and broker fraud, and unregistered offerings. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and earned a BS in journalism from Ohio University.