
Chief Compliance Officer
McClean joined Canaras as Chief Compliance Officer in March 2007. He remains Principal of the DMA Consulting Group, a regulatory and business consultancy to the financial services industry from 1992 to present and is also the owner and Principal of Interval Placements & Research, LLC, a U.S.-registered broker-dealer. McClean also serves or has served as Chief Compliance Officer for several client firms, including Aladdin Capital Management and Sailfish Capital Management. Prior to DMA, he served as an officer in various legal compliance positions at Van Eck Funds, BV Capital Management and National Securities and Research Corporation.
McClean studied at Hunter College (B.A., 1986), NYU (M.A., 1996), and The New School, where he earned an M.A. in Social Research (2003), and his Ph.D. in social ethics (2009). David holds the NASD’s Series 7, 24, 27 and 63 licenses.