WASHINGTON, D.C., February 23, 2017 – The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) is pleased to announce the results of its elections, which took place last week, and resulted in a slate of new Board members, as well as four officers to serve on the FXPA’s Executive Committee (ExCom).

FXPA members re-elected Chip Lowry, Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Markets, as Chair, and Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director, Financial and OTC Products, CME Group, as Treasurer. FXPA members also elected two new officers to the ExCom, Fulinda Rouse, Regional Head of Liquidity Management, EBS BrokerTec, as Vice Chair, and Paul Millward, Head of FX Product Strategy, Bats Global Markets, as Secretary.

As Vice Chair, Rouse succeeds Jill Sigelbaum, Global Head of FX at Traiana, who served in the role for the past year, but who is leaving her firm. Millward succeeds Bill Goodbody, Senior Vice President, FX, BATS Global Markets, following Goodbody’s departure from the firm.

FXPA also approved a slate of eight candidates to the 14-strong Board of Directors for 2017. The new members include Tahreem Kampton, Senior Director, Microsoft; Tod Van Name, Global Head of FX and Commodities Electronic Trading, Bloomberg; Jessica Sohl, General Counsel, HC Technologies; Edgar Ramon, Global Head of FX, INTL FCStone; and Joe Molluso, Chief Financial Officer, Virtu Financial. The following were re-elected to the Board: Michael Curran, EVP, Foreign Exchange, BNY Mellon; Stephen Komon, Sr. Passive Portfolio Manager/Head Trader, Colorado PERA; David Goone, Chief Strategy Officer, Intercontinental Exchange.

Two Board directors were confirmed to replace departing members, including Rouse at EBS BrokerTec and Neill Penney, Managing Director, Trading, Thomson Reuters.

These members join existing Board members: Jonathon O’Donnell, Investment Manager, CalPERS; KC Lam, Head of FX and Rates, Singapore Exchange; and Harpal Sandhu, CEO, Integral Development Corp.

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The FXPA is a Washington, DC-based organization that represents the collective interests of the full array of professional foreign exchange industry participants. The group was developed to engage key regulators, policymakers, the news media and general public through education, research and advocacy, with the goal of advancing a sound, liquid, transparent, and competitive global currency market.