About James Lee
James Lee is founder, chairman and CEO of TXSE Group. Its wholly owned Texas Stock Exchange is an electronic national securities exchange based in Dallas. He also serves as chairman and CEO of the exchange. He is a director of TXSE Group and serves on the Texas Stock Exchange board. Lee is chairman and president of Houston Symphony Endowment. He has 30 years of experience across U.S. equity markets, alternative investments and governance of public retirement systems and endowments.
Lee co-founded trading technology companies that built early smart-order routing tools. He also co-founded an electronic trading firm that handled large shares of daily U.S. equity volume. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at First Boston and Lehman Brothers. His public service includes former chairmanship of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas board. He won an EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in eServices. He holds an MBA and BBA from UT Austin's McCombs School and completed London Business School finance and hedge-fund programs. He also holds multiple FINRA licenses and certifications.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name James Lee in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people James Lee works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.








