MSRB announces new officers and board members for fiscal year 2014

By Tali David

Minneapolis, July 30 - The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board announced that effective Oct. 1, Daniel Heimowitz, managing director at RBC Capital Markets, will serve as chair of the MSRB, and Joseph J. Geraci, managing director and co-head of municipal markets at Citi, will serve as vice chair, according to a press release.

Prior to his position with RBC Capital Markets, Heimowitz was a managing director in Lehman Brother's public finance group. He joined Lehman Brothers after a 19-year career with Moody's Investors Service.

Before his current position, Geraci was co-head of Citi's municipal financial products group. He has been a leader in Citi's efforts to expand the reach of its municipal securities division into affordable housing, new products and other technologies to improve the efficiency of the municipal market.

The MSRB's new board of directors members represent the public as well as entities regulated by the MSRB. New public representatives are Robert P. Cochran, co-managing director and chairman of the board at Build America Mutual Assurance Co.; Lakshmi Kommi, director of debt management for the City of San Diego; Christopher M. Ryon, managing director at Thornburg Investment Management; and Colleen Woodell, former chief credit officer of global corporate and government ratings for Standard & Poor's.

Joining the board as securities firm representatives are James D. McKinney, senior advisor at William Blair & Co., and Brian L. Wynne, co-head of public finance and head of the municipal syndicate desk at Morgan Stanley. Nathaniel Singer, managing director at Swap Financial Group, joins the board as a municipal advisor representative.

Based in Alexandria, Va., the MSRB works to promote a fair and efficient municipal market for investors, issuers, other municipal entities and the public.

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