Ms. Erdly was named one of the “Best Under 40” lawyers by the National LGBT Law Association and holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and a B.A. from Lafayette College.

Sumit Sud was appointed special counsel to the DFS superintendent. Mr. Sud most recently was deputy chief special counsel for ethics, risk, and compliance across dozens of state agencies and directly covered the Department of Labor and the New York State Insurance Fund.

Previously, he served as senior counsel at the New York City Law Department for almost 10 years, where he also served on the New York City Law Department Diversity Committee. He holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio and a B.S. from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Gareth Rhodes was appointed special assistant to the DFS superintendent, where he will be working on cross-agency initiatives that implicate policy, law, communications, and intergovernmental issues, and other special projects. Mr. Rhodes most recently earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School, during which he served as a law clerk on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and interned for Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV on the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Previously, Mr. Rhodes served as deputy press secretary to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo as part of his five-year tenure in the executive chamber. Mr. Rhodes holds a B.A. from The City College of New York (“CUNY”), where he was a recipient of a Harry S. Truman Scholarship and served as a White House intern.

Shaunik R. Panse was appointed special counsel for ethics, risk, and compliance for the DFS. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Panse was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, with a focus on internal investigations, criminal defense, complex civil litigation, and cross-border regulatory and enforcement matters. In that role, he completed a secondment to a global financial institution where he advised on anti-money laundering, sanctions, compliance, and data privacy issues arising from investigations conducted by an independent compliance monitor across multiple jurisdictions in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.

Previously, Mr. Panse served as a law clerk to Judge L. Cott of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and a foreign law clerk to Judge Justice Johann van der Westhuizen of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg.

Mr. Panse serves as a reserve attorney in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Air Force at the rank of Captain. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from Tufts University, and has completed coursework at The London School of Economics.