Kelly is an associate at Mayer Brown in Washington, D.C. where he is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice with a focus on fintech.

Kelly graduated from Georgetown Law, where he served as an editor of the Georgetown Law Technology Review. During law school, Kelly worked as a research assistant and as an intern in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management.

In addition to his JD, Kelly holds a MS in computer science from Georgia Tech, an International MBA in finance from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a BS in computer science and information systems from the Florida Institute of Technology. Kelly is Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Certified Information Privacy Professional, US Private Sector (CIPP/US).

Before law school, Kelly worked with a number of early-stage technology companies and served as a program manager at a large research university where his portfolio included initiatives to boost entrepreneurship and to build regional academic, government and industry partnerships in the cybersecurity arena.