NYSSA Announces New Board of Directors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The New York Society of Security Analysts, Inc. (NYSSA), leading forum for the investment community since 1937, announced its new board following the Annual Meeting to elect directors and officers on May 24, 2011. The board has a new chairman, vice chairman and secretary as well as a new member.

NYSSA’s new Board of Directors is:

Chairman: Kathy A. O’Connor, CFA
O'Connor is president and portfolio manager at KJ Capital Management, LLC. She was previously vice chairman of the board.

Vice Chairman: Karen Sterling, PhD, CFA
Sterling is the managing director of healthcare investment banking at Avalon Group. Her previous role on the board was director-at-large.

Secretary: Barry M. Sine, CFA, CMT
Sine is managing director at Drexel Hamilton. His earlier role was director-at-large on the board.

Directors:
Steve Balog
Balog was a Wall Street research professional for nearly twenty years through 2001—both an analyst and a research executive.

Karen E. Boroff, PhD
Boroff, professor and dean emeritus, was dean of Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business from 2000 to 2010.

Richard G. Lipstein
Lipstein is managing director of Boyden Global Executive Search. He is the newest addition to NYSSA’s board of directors.

Andrew J. Melnick, CFA
Melnickis managing partner and head of risk management for SkyView Investment Advisors, LLC.

Elizabeth K. Miller, CFA
Miller is the founder ofSummit Place Financial Advisors, LLC, and has more than 20 years of experience on Wall Street.

Nanci D. Morris, CFA
Morris is managing director of New England Retirement Group and president of NDM Management, LLC.

Katherin Nukk-Freeman, Esq.
Nukk-Freeman is a founder and principal of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C., an employment law firm.

Guy Rutherfurd, CFA
Rutherfurdis currently founding principal and portfolio manager at FVCM, a SEC registered investment advisor.

Victor Ugolyn
Ugolyn is a private investor and is the independent chairman of the board of trustees of WisdomTree Trust.

Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA
Ukrainskyj is chief investment officer of American Economic Planning Group Inc.

NYSSA expresses its thanks for years of dedicated service to the Society to Nanci D. Morris, CFA, as chairman of the board, and to two departing board members: Mary Jane McQuillen and John J. Apruzzese, CFA.

For more information on NYSSA’s board, please visit www.nyssa.org/governance.

About NYSSA

The New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) is a leading forum for the investment community. NYSSA’s mission is to promote best practices and the highest professional and ethical standards in the industry. With over 10,000 members, NYSSA is the largest of the 135 societies worldwide that make up CFA Institute, which has over 100,000 members. For more information about NYSSA, please visit http://www.nyssa.org. Follow NYSSA on Facebook, Twitter and Finance Professionals’ Post.

NYSSAShauntay Jones, 212-541-4530
press@nyssa.org

Source: New York Society of Security Analysts