SIFMA Promotes Ellen Greene to Managing Director, Equity and Options Market Structure

New York, NY, January 23, 2020 – SIFMA today announced that Ellen Greene has been promoted to the position of managing director, equity and options market structure.

In this new role, Ms. Greene will take on the additional role of staff advisor to SIFMA’s Equity Markets and Trading Committee.  She will have responsibility for all market structure issues in the equities and listed options areas, which is part of SIFMA’s broader Capital Markets division, and will report to Rob Toomey, SIFMA managing director and associate general counsel.  Ms. Greene will retain her responsibility for SIFMA’s Listed Options Committee.

“Ellen has been an outstanding team member and is highly regarded by our members. We are very pleased to see her expand her portfolio and take on this critical new role,” said Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., SIFMA president and CEO.

Ms. Greene has worked at SIFMA since 2012. She previously held positions as vice president of transaction services at NASDAQ, managing director at the American Stock Exchange, investment banking associate at the Wadsworth Company, and analyst on the syndicate desk in equity capital markets at Merrill Lynch.

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SIFMA is the leading trade association for broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers operating in the U.S. and global capital markets. On behalf of our industry’s nearly 1 million employees, we advocate for legislation, regulation and business policy, affecting retail and institutional investors, equity and fixed income markets and related products and services. We serve as an industry coordinating body to promote fair and orderly markets, informed regulatory compliance, and efficient market operations and resiliency. We also provide a forum for industry policy and professional development. 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 http://www.sifma.org.