SIFMA Annual Meeting: Featured Speakers

Each fall, SIFMA’s Annual Meeting gathers the most influential voices shaping today’s capital markets for candid one-on-one conversations, expert panel discussions and in-depth breakout sessions with senior executives and the foremost policymakers, regulators and financial market experts. View our featured speakers in 2018 and stay tuned to www.sifma.org/annual for our lineup in 2019.

2018 Featured Speakers

James R. Allen
Chairman & CEO
Hilliard Lyons

Nadine Bates
Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Fannie Mae

Ann Battle
Assistant General Counsel
ISDA

Peter Beardshaw
Managing Director, Accenture UK & Ireland Finance & Risk Consulting Lead
Accenture

Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr.
President and CEO
SIFMA

Catherine P. Bessant
Chief Operations and Technology Officer
Bank of America

Sandy Bolton
Managing Director, Head of Investment Products – Investment Solutions Group
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

David Bowman
Special Adviser to the Board
Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Jeffrey Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Ally Financial

William C. Caccamise
General Counsel and Managing Director, Global Banking, Global Markets, and International
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Alice Campbell
Economic Counsellor
British Embassy

Douglas Cifu
Chief Executive Officer
Virtu

Robert Cook
President and CEO
FINRA

Vanessa Foster Cooksey
Senior Vice President, Community Relations
Wells Fargo & Company

Kevin Cronin
Global Head of Trading
Invesco

Penny Crosman
Editor at Large
American Banker

Bob Cusack
Editor in Chief
The Hill

Rich Daly
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Neil Dhar
Partner, Head of Financial Services
PwC

David M. Drucker
Senior Political Correspondent
Washington Examiner

Leigh Feldman
Managing Director, Head of U.S. Privacy within the Global Privacy and Data Protection Practice
Promontory

Sara Furber
Chief Financial Officer
IEX

J. Christopher Giancarlo
Chairman
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Justin G. Gmelich
Chief Operating Officer, FICC
Goldman Sachs & Co.

Daniel Gorfine
Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Lisa Kidd Hunt
Executive Vice President, Business Initiatives
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
Senior Fellow
Rhodium Group

Beth Knickerbocker
Chief Innovation Officers
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

Josh Kraushaar
Political Editor
National Journal

Lawrence A. Kudlow
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council
National Economic Council

Stephen Laipply
Managing Director, Head of U.S. iShares Fixed Income Strategy
BlackRock, iShares

Jim Langham
Managing Director, Mandates Investment Solutions Americas
UBS

Jaime Magyera
Managing Director, National Accounts – Head of Wirehouse Channel
BlackRock

Kristin Maher
Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Services
Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Charlie Mahtesian
Senior Politics Editor
Politico

Jason Manske
Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Derivatives and Liquid Markets
MetLife

Richard McVey
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MarketAxess

Sanjiv Mirchandani
President of Clearing and Custody Solutions
Fidelity

L. Erika Najarian
Managing Director, Head of US Banks Equity Research
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Katherine E. Nixon
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
Northern Trust

Damian Nussbaum
Director for Economic Development
City of London

Sandra O’Connor
Managing Director, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jodi Pinedo
Director & Senior Managing Counsel
Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon Company

Bob Pisani
“On-Air” Stocks Editor
CNBC

Gerald D. Pucci, Jr.
Managing Director, Head of Global Low Touch Fixed Income Trading and Global Head of Repo
BlackRock

Vivekanand Ramgopal
Vice President and Co-Head, TCS Financial Solutions
Tata Consultancy Services

Christian A. Rasmussen
Managing Director, Treasury ALM
UBS Securities LLC

Brett Redfearn
Director, Division of Trading and Markets
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Stuart Rubinstein
President, Fidelity Wealth Technologies
Fidelity Investments

Charles Schwab
Chairman
The Charles Schwab Corporation

Jaret Seiberg
Financial Services and Housing Policy Analyst
Cowen

Michelle Seitz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Russell Investments

Michael Sheptin
Principal
Ernst & Young LLP

Alix Steel
Co-Anchor of Bloomberg Daybreak Americas
Bloomberg Television

Mark Steinhoff
Managing Director
Deloitte & Touche LLP

Steve Steinour
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

Glenn Taitz
Global Head of Fixed Income Trading
Invesco

Pete Thatch
Senior Relationship Manager
Capital Group

Sonali Das Theisen
Managing Director – Head of Fixed Income Market Structure
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Scott Thoma
Principal, Research – Strategy
Edward Jones

Amy Walter
National Editor
The Cook Political Report
Host
WNYC’s The Takeaway, Fridays

Jesse Westbrook
Editor, Financial Regulation
Bloomberg

Ben White
Chief Economic Correspondent
Politico

Chris Willcox
Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management
J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Thomas Wipf
Vice Chairman of Institutional Securities
Morgan Stanley

Andres Wolberg-Stok
Global Head of Fintech Policy for Global Consumer Banking
Citi