The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board named 17 new members and reappointed members of its Standing Advisory Group, who will serve three-year terms starting next month.
The SAG advises the PCAOB on the development of auditing and related professional practice standards. The advisory group includes experts in the fields of accounting, auditing, financial reporting, corporate finance and corporate governance, along with experts in investing in public companies. With the new and reappointed members, the SAG now stands at 42 members.
"The SAG consists of experts who have a stake in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports,” said PCAOB Chairman James R. Doty in a statement. “Its members are an important source of insight and advice to the board.”
The PCAOB issued a request for SAG nominations in May, as it does annually. Membership in the advisory group is personal to the member, and the duties and responsibilities cannot be delegated to others.
The names of the 2014 SAG members are listed below, including 25 continuing members:
New Appointments
Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Wollard, Jr. Chair of Corporate Governance and Director, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware
Philip R. Johnson, Nonexecutive Director, Yorkshire Building Society
Guy R. Jubb, Global Head of Governance and Stewardship, Standard Life Investments, Ltd.
Douglas L. Maine, Limited Partner and Senior Advisor, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Maureen F. McNichols, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management and Professor of Accounting, Stanford University
Rachel D. Polson, Partner, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Gregory A. Pratt, Chairman, Carpenter Technology Corporation
Sridhar Ramamoorti, Associate Professor of Accounting, School of Accountancy, and Director, Corporate Governance Center, Kennesaw State University
Brandon J. Rees, Acting Director, Office of Investment, AFL-CIO
Richard W. Roedel, Public company board member
Philip J. Santarelli, Chief Risk Officer, ParenteBeard, LLC
Thomas I. Selling, President, Grove Technologies, LLC
Sir David P. Tweedie, Chairman, International Valuation Standards Council
Reappointments
Michael J. Gallagher, Managing Partner, Assurance Quality, PwC
Robert B. Hirth, Jr., Chairman, Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
Richard H. Murray, CEO, Liability Dynamics Consulting, LLC
Charles V. Senatore, Head of Corporate Compliance, Fidelity Investments
Continuing Members
Hon. Richard C. Breeden, Chairman and CEO, Breeden Capital Management LLC
Steven E. Buller, Managing Director, BlackRock, Inc.
Loretta V. Cangialosi, Senior Vice President and Controller, Pfizer, Inc.
Peter C. Clapman, Chairman and President, Governance for Owners LLP; public company board member
Walton T. Conn, Jr., U. S. Partner and Global Head of Audit Methodology and Implementation, KPMG LLP
J. Michael Cook, Public company board member
Wallace R. Cooney, Vice President-Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Graham Holdings Company
James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, School of Law, Duke University
Jerry M. de St. Paer, Senior Advisory Partner, Grail Partners LLC
Robert L. Guido, Public company board member
Robert H. Herz, CEO, Robert H. Herz LLC; Executive-in-Residence, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Bruce J. Jorth, Chief Risk Officer, McGladrey, LLP
Jean M. Joy, Director of Professional Practice and Director of Financial Institutions Practice, Wolf & Company, P.C.
Wayne A. Kolins, Partner, BDO USA, LLP; Global Head of Audit and Accounting, BDO International Limited
Jeffrey P. Mahoney, General Counsel, Council of Institutional Investors
Elizabeth F. Mooney, Analyst, The Capital Group Companies
Jennifer Paquette, Chief Investment Officer, Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association
William T. Platt, Managing Partner, Professional Practice, and Chief Quality Officer — Attest, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Kevin B. Reilly, Americas Vice Chair, Professional Practice and Risk Management, Ernst & Young LLP
Walter G. Ricciardi, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
Barbara L. Roper, Director of Investor Protection, Consumer Federation of America
Kurt N. Schacht, Managing Director, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute
D. Scott Showalter, Professor of Practice, Department of Accounting, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University
Brian D. Thelen, General Auditor and Chief Risk Officer, General Motors LLC
John W. White, Partner, Corporate Department, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
