John M. Ramsay, Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel at Citigroup Global Markets in New York City, has been elected 2006-07 President of the Board of Trustees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Historical Society.
The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society was founded in 1999 as a non-profit organization, independent of and separate from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Society preserves and shares SEC and securities history through its virtual museum and archive at www.sechistorical.org, which opened in 2002. The site offers more than 1,600 primary materials on SEC and securities history, and attracts more than 5,000 visits each month from the financial community, law and accounting firms, the SEC, academia, the press and the general public. Anyone can access the site and its resources free of charge.
Ramsay has been a member of the Society’s Board since 2005 and previously served as Treasurer. He worked at the SEC as Counsel to Commissioner Mary Schapiro and as Deputy Chief Counsel of the Division of Market Regulation. He also served at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, NASD Regulation, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, and The Bond Market Association. He holds a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Robert J. Kueppers of Deloitte & Touche LLP in New York City, who served as 2004-06 President, was elected Chairman. Herbert F. Janick III of Bingham McCutchen LLP in Portland, Maine was elected to the Board of Trustees as President-Elect.
Other Society officers for 2006-07 include James W. Barratt of Alvarez & Marsal in Washington, DC and Richard H. Rowe of Proskauer Rose LLP in Washington, DC as Vice-Presidents; David B.H. Martin, Jr. of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC as Treasurer; and Carmen J. Lawrence of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York City as Secretary.
In addition to Janick, Barratt, and Lawrence, new trustees elected to the Society’s Board include W. Scott Bayless of Deloitte & Touche LLP in Washington, DC, Mark Berman of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. in London, Susan Coffey of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in New York City, Colleen P. Mahoney of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in Washington, DC, George C. McKann of Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP in Chicago, Anita Nesser of Centex Corporation in Dallas, and Stacy L. Paxson of Baker Botts LLP in Washington, DC.