Latest “inside-the-beltway rumor mill” names offered up by Politico.com for chairman of the SEC in the Obama administration:
- Bill Brodsky, the chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange; also served as president and CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- Nancy Smith, vice president of AARP Financial Inc.; former director of the SEC Office of Investor Education and a New Mexico securities commissioner.
- Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments; a director of Starbucks and two other companies and a former Princeton University trustee.
- Bob Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management; former vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Co. and was on President George W. Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security in 2001 and 2002; former secretary of economic affairs to then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
- Bill McLucas, chairman of the law firm WilmerHale’s Securities Department and former Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
- Harvey Goldschmid, a Columbia Law School professor and former SEC commissioner (2002-2005) and General Counsel (1998-1999).
- Damon Silvers, associate general counsel for the AFL-CIO; member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standing advisory group, among other corporate governance task forces.
