February 4, 2016

SEC Names Members of Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies

The SEC named the following members of its renewed Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies:

Co-Chairs

Voting Members

Robert Aguilar, CFO and Chief Operating Officer, Cabrera Capital Markets LLC, Chicago
Xavier Gutierrez, President and Chief Investment Officer, Meruelo Investment Partners, Downey, California
Brian Hahn, CFO, GlycoMimetics Inc., Rockville, Maryland
Kyle Hauptman, Executive Director of the Main Street Growth Project, Washington, D.C.
Jenny Kassan, owner, Jenny Kassan Consulting, Fremont, California
Catherine V. Mott, founder and CEO, BlueTree Capital Group, Wexford, Pennsylvania
Jonathan Nelson, founder and CEO, Hackers/Founders, Mountain View, California
Patrick Reardon, owner, The Reardon Firm, Fort Worth, Texas
Lisa Shimkat, State Director, America's Small Business Development Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Tisha R. Tallman, President and CEO, the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta
Annemarie Tierney, Vice President and Head of Strategy and New Markets, NASDAQ Private Market, New York
Gregory C. Yadley, Partner, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP, Tampa, Florida
Laura Yamanaka, President and Co-Founder, teamCFO, Inc., Los Angeles

Non-Voting Members

Michael Pieciak, Deputy Commissioner, Securities Division, State of Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, and Chair of the Corporation Finance Section of the North American Securities Administrators Association
Mark Walsh, Associate Administrator, Office of Investment and Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration

The committee will hold its first meeting on Thursday, February 25.

Primary Sources