James Lee

James Lee is the chairman, founder, and CEO of TXSE Group Inc, parent of the Texas Stock Exchange and Oculon Intelligence.

Backed by many of the world’s largest financial institutions and liquidity providers and CEOs from across the country, the Texas Stock Exchange is focused on enabling U.S. and global companies to access U.S. capital markets and aims to become the premier venue to list and trade public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products. The Texas Stock Exchange is a SEC-registered, fully integrated, electronic, national securities exchange headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Oculon Intelligence is a security-first, AI-native software-as-a-service market intelligence platform that combines regulatory reporting insights, execution analytics, and market surveillance across equities and options. Oculon Intelligence is a division of TXSE Group Inc, operating independently from the Texas Stock Exchange.

Jim has over 30 years of experience in U.S. equity markets, alternative investments and governance of large public retirement systems and endowments. Previously, Jim co-founded trading technology companies that developed early smart order routing technologies to connect investors and U.S. equity markets as well as an electronic trading brokerage that regularly transacted a large percentage of U.S. equity volume. He began his career working in mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers and First Boston.

Jim serves as the president of the Houston Symphony Endowment board, member of the Dallas Economic Forum, board member of the Dallas Regional Chamber, member of the Dallas Citizens Council, and member of the Texas Business Leadership Council. Previously, he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and commissioner on the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission, Texas Sunset Commission, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Finance Commission, and Texas Growth Fund.

Jim holds an MBA and a BBA from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, where he established the Wall Street for McCombs permanent endowment for undergraduate and graduate WSFM student leaders. He is also a graduate of the London Business School’s programmes in finance/hedge funds. He was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year and held several FINRA certifications.