SEC acting chairman Mark Uyeda has named acting staff to fill vacant senior roles at the commission – favouring enforcement division veterans.
The acting director of the division of enforcement, Samuel Waldon, has been chief counsel for the division since 2022. He was assistant chief counsel for almost 15 years prior to this.
Waldon replaces Sanjay Wadhwa, who has been acting director since the departure of Gurbir Grewal last October.
Jeffrey Finnell is acting general counsel and Ryan Wolfe has been named acting chief accountant. They replace Megan Barbero and Paul Munter respectively, who left the commission in the week before Trump’s inauguration.
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Finnell has been with the SEC since 2001, and was deputy general counsel between 2017 and 2021. He has spent the majority of his time with the commission in the division of enforcement, Wolfe has been chief accountant for the division since rejoining the SEC in 2022.
Elsewhere, Kathleen Hutchinson has been appointed acting director of the officer of international affairs, following the departure of YJ Fischer. She has been with the division since 2003, and was acting director in 2020.
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Uyeda’s counsel Robert Fisher is now acting director of the division of economic and risk analysis, after Jessica Wachter’s departure earlier this month. Fisher has a long academic career, and has held several roles at the SEC since 2002. These include positions in the office of compliance, inspections and examinations, the office of international affairs, and the division of economic and risk analysis. He has been a counsel to Uyeda since 2022.
The SEC has not yet announced its acting chief accountant; Paul Munter, who held the role since January 2023, left the commission in mid January.
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