New York, NY, November 13, 2013–The Board of Directors of SIFMA announced that it has elected several new members to leadership positions on the Board for 2014.The new principal officers include: Jim Rosenthal as Chair, Bill Johnstone as Chair Elect, John Rogers, as Vice Chair; and Bernard Beal as Treasurer.

The following executives were elected as directors of the board with terms concluding in 2016:

Valerie Brown	Cetera Financial Group
Brand Meyer George Walker	Wells Fargo Independent Brokerage Group Neuberger Berman
James Wallin	Alliance Bernstein

The full SIFMA 2013-2014 Board of Directors is comprised of the following executives:

Francois O. Barthelemy	Société Générale
Bernard B. Beal	M.R. Beal & Company
Rosemary T. Berkery	UBS Financial Services Inc.
Curt Bradbury, Jr.	Stephens Inc.
Valerie Brown	Cetera Financial Group
David L. Brunner	BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Daniel Coleman	KCG
Andrew S. Duff	Piper Jaffray & Co.
David Findlay	Nomura Holding America Inc.
Kim Tillotson Fleming	Hefren-Tillotson, Inc.
Kenneth D. Gibbs	Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Judd Gregg	SIFMA
Thomas Hartnett	Deutsche Bank AG New York
Chet Helck	Raymond James Financial
Douglas M. Hodge	PIMCO
Lisa Kidd Hunt	Charles Schwab & Co.
William A. Johnstone	Davidson Companies
Edward J. Kelly, III	Citi
Ronald J. Kruszewski	Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.
Michael Lyublinsky	RBS Securities, Inc.
Blythe Masters	JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Gerard McGraw	Fidelity Institutional
Brand Meyer	Wells Fargo Independent Brokerage Group
Robert J. Moore	LPL Financial
Timothy P. O’Hara	Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Richard B. Payne, Jr.	U.S. Bancorp
Karen B. Peetz	BNY Mellon
Paul E. Purcell	Robert W. Baird & Co.
John F. W. Rogers	Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Jim Rosenthal	Morgan Stanley
Timothy C. Scheve	Janney Montgomery Scott
G. Donald Steel	Planned Investment Co., Inc.
Joseph E. Sweeney	Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
John G. Taft	RBC Wealth Management – U.S.
Keiko Tashiro	Daiwa Capital Markets America, Inc.
James A. Tricarico, Jr.	Edwards Jones
George Walker	Neuberger Berman
James Wallin	Alliance Bernstein
Bryan T. Weadock	Bank of America Merrill Lynch
W. Rufus Yates	BB&T Capital Markets

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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.