New York, NY, November 11, 2014–The Board of Directors of SIFMA announced that it has elected several directors to leadership positions on the Board for 2015.  The new principal officers include:

Chair:

William A. Johnstone, chairman and chief executive officer, D.A. Davidson Companies

Chair-Elect:

John F. W. Rogers, executive vice president, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Vice Chair:

Timothy C. Scheve, president and chief executive officer, Janney Montgomery Scott

Treasurer:

Gerard McGraw, president, Fidelity Institutional

The following executives were elected by the SIFMA members as directors of the Board with terms concluding in 2017:

James Allen	Hilliard Lyons
William Caccamise	Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Roger Ochs	HD Vest Financial Services
John Vaccaro	Westport Resources

The full SIFMA 2014-2015 Board of Directors is comprised of the following executives:

James R. Allen	Hilliard Lyons
Francois O. Barthelemy	Société Générale
Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr.	SIFMA
Rosemary T. Berkery	UBS Wealth Management
Curt Bradbury, Jr.	Stephens Inc.
David L. Brunner	BNP Paribas North America
William Caccamise	Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Daniel B. Coleman	KCG Holdings, Inc.
Andrew S. Duff	Piper Jaffray & Co.
David Findlay	Nomura Holding America Inc.
Kim Tillotson Fleming	Hefren-Tillotson, Inc.
Kenneth D. Gibbs	Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Tom Hartnett	Deutsche Bank AG New York
Douglas M. Hodge	PIMCO
Lisa Kidd Hunt	Charles Schwab & Co.
William A. Johnstone	Davidson Companies
Ronald J. Kruszewski	Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.
Michael Lyublinsky	RBS Securities, Inc.
Gerard McGraw	Fidelity Institutional
Brand Meyer	Wells Fargo Advisors
Robert J. Moore	LPL Financial
Sandra O’Connor	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Timothy P. O’Hara	Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Roger Ochs	HD Vest Financial Services
David Ornstein Richard B. Payne	Barclays U.S. Bancorp
Karen B. Peetz	BNY Mellon
Paul E. Purcell	Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.
Paul Reilly	Raymond James Financial
John F. W. Rogers	Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Jim Rosenthal	Morgan Stanley
Timothy C. Scheve	Janney Montgomery Scott
Zion Shohet	Citigroup, 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.	Edward Jones
John Vaccaro	Westport Resources
George Walker	Neuberger Berman
James Wallin	AllianceBernstein
W. Rufus Yates	BB&T Securities

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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.