SIFMA’s Board of Directors Announces Newly Elected Officers for 2012
New York, NY, November 9, 2011–The Board of Directors of SIFMA announced it has elected Jerry del Missier, Co-Chief Executive of Barclays Capital and Co-Chief Executive of Corporate & Investment Banking, as the Association’s Chair for 2012.
The new principal officers include: Chet Helck, Raymond James Financial, Inc., as Chair-Elect; Kent Christian, Wells Fargo Advisors, as Vice Chair; and Bernard Beal, M.R. Beal & Company, as Treasurer.
“We are delighted to welcome Jerry as the new chair of SIFMA,” said Tim Ryan, President and CEO of SIFMA. “Jerry’s valuable insight on issues facing the global financial industry, especially derivatives and capital charges, will be a tremendous benefit to SIFMA and our industry as we continue to move forward with financial reform implementation. We thank Jerry for his willingness to serve in this important role.”
The following executives were elected as directors of the board with terms concluding in 2015:
| David L. Brunner | BNP Paribas Securities Corp. |
| Andrew S. Duff | Piper Jaffray |
| Ricard B. Payne, Jr. | U.S. Bancorp |
| Karen B. Peetz | BNY Mellon |
| G. Donald Steel | Planned Investment Co., Inc. |
| Bryan T. Weadock | Bank of America-Merrill Lynch |
The full SIFMA 2012 Board of Directors is comprised of the following executives:
| Francis P. Barron | Morgan Stanley |
| Francois O. Barthelemy | Société Générale |
| Bernard B. Beal | M.R. Beal & Company |
| Rosemary T. Berkery | UBS Financial Services Inc. |
| Joan Binstock | Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC |
| Curt Bradbury, Jr. | Stephens Inc. |
| Benjamin L. Brigeman | Charles Schawb & Company, Inc. |
| David L. Brunner | BNP Paribas Securities Corp. |
| Kent Christian | Wells Fargo Advisors |
| Jerry del Missier | Barclays Capital |
| Didier Descamps | HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. |
| Andrew S. Duff | Piper Jaffray & Co. |
| William Dwyer | LPL Financial |
| Kenneth D. Gibbs | Jefferies & Company, Inc. |
| John R. Gidman | Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. |
| Masaaki Goto | Daiwa Capital Markets America Holdings, Inc. |
| Thomas Hartnett | Deutsche Bank AG New York |
| Chet Helck | Raymond James Financial, Inc. |
| David B. Heller | Goldman Sachs & Co. |
| Douglas M. Hodge | PIMCO |
| William A. Johnstone | Davidson Companies |
| Thomas M. Joyce | Knight Capital Group, Inc. |
| Edward J. Kelly, III | Citi |
| Ronald J. Kruszewski | Stifel, Nicolaus & Company |
| Alexandra Lebenthal | Alexandra & James, LLC/Lebenthal & Co. |
| Michael Lyublinsky | RBS Securities, Inc. |
| Blythe Masters | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
| Shawn P. Matthews | Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. |
| Kathleen Murphy | Fidelity Investments |
| Timothy P. O’Hara | Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC |
| Richard B. Payne, Jr. | U.S. BanCorp |
| Karen B. Peetz | BNY Mellon |
| Walter S. Robertson, III | Scott & Stringfellow LLC |
| T. Timothy Ryan, Jr. | SIFMA |
| Timothy C. Scheve | Janney Montgomery Scott |
| Donald G. Steel | Planned Investment Co., Inc. |
| Joseph E. Sweeney | Ameriprise Financial, Inc. |
| John G. Taft | RBC Wealth Management – U.S. |
| James A. Tricarico, Jr. | Edward Jones |
| Bryan T. Weadock | Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. |
| Atsushi Yoshikawa | Nomura Holding America Inc. |
SIFMA member firms elect the Board of Directors, from which the Chair and other officers were elected at a board meeting held in New York City.
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The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) brings together the shared interests of hundreds of securities firms, banks and asset managers. SIFMA’s mission is to support a strong financial industry, investor opportunity, capital formation, job creation and economic growth, while building trust and confidence in the financial markets. SIFMA, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., is the U.S. regional member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). For more information, visit www.sifma.org.