ICI Leadership

George C. W. Gatch is CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s global funds and global institutional businesses. He is also a member of the operating committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset and wealth management line of business. Previously, as CEO of global funds management, Gatch led J.P. Morgan’s mutual fund complexes in Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and Europe. In 2005, he launched global funds’ US mutual fund platform, which he led for a decade. Earlier in his career, Gatch served as president and CEO of Japan’s DKB Morgan, and established J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s subadvisory and institutional mutual funds businesses. He joined J.P. Morgan in 1986. Gatch serves as chairman of the Investment Company Institute. He is also on the Investment Committee and Board of Directors for the Cathedral School of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as serving as a board member of New York’s Mohonk Preserve. Gatch holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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William F. “Ted” Truscott is CEO of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a leading global asset manager that provides a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions for individual, institutional, and corporate clients around the world. Truscott serves on several boards across the Columbia Threadneedle and Ameriprise Financial businesses. In addition, he serves as vice chairman of the Investment Company Institute’s Board of Governors and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Middlebury College. Truscott earned a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from Middlebury College and an MBA in finance from New York University, Stern School of Business.

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Paul Schott Stevens has served as president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute since June 2004. Stevens has steered ICI during some of the most challenging years in its history, through the financial crisis and beyond. He has led ICI’s efforts on a series of crucial issues—money market fund reform, passage and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, and critically important fiscal and tax issues. In 2011, he directed the launch of ICI Global to respond to the globalization of fund investing and regulation, and has consistently championed the role of investment funds and defined contribution plans in providing for retirement internationally.

Stevens served as general counsel of ICI from 1993 to 1997. He also practiced law in Washington for many years, most recently as a partner in the financial services group of Dechert LLP. In addition, Stevens served in senior government positions at the White House and Defense Department, including as special assistant for national security affairs to President Ronald Reagan and as chief of staff of the National Security Council. Upon leaving government service, he was awarded the Defense Department’s Medal for Distinguished Public Service, its highest civilian decoration. Over his career, Stevens has been involved with a wide range of professional, cultural, community, and church activities. He and his wife, Joyce, live in Alexandria, VA, and have four sons.

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Peter H. Gallary is chief operating officer of the Investment Company Institute. He joined ICI in October 2006. Previously, Gallary served as managing director and head of operations for Putnam Investments, and director of Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company. Before joining Putnam in 1994, Gallary led the Boston Company Advisors as president and CEO. Before that, he spent a decade leading the Northeast financial services management consulting practice for Coopers & Lybrand in Boston. Gallary holds a BS in mathematics from Fairfield University and an MBA from Boston College.

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Donald C. Auerbach joined ICI in May 2004, and was appointed chief government affairs officer and co-head, government affairs, in March 2009. In this role, he works with government policymakers on a wide variety of issues affecting the Institute and its members, including financial services regulation, tax policy, and retirement savings. Before joining ICI, Auerbach worked for Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) on the staff of the House Financial Services Committee. Before going to Capitol Hill, Auerbach served as a staff member at Federal Financial Analytics, a Washington consultancy. He holds a BA in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, a JD from the American University’s Washington College of Law, and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

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Marty Burns is chief industry operations officer of the Investment Company Institute. He joined ICI in 2006, and as senior director for operations and distribution was responsible for facilitating middle- and back-office initiatives with industry stakeholders, and collaborating with stakeholders to pursue and achieve related regulatory, legislative, and public policy goals. A veteran of the financial services industry with more than three decades of experience working for government, private, and public enterprises, Burns also has managed securities processing and operations, asset securitizations, and banking regulation. He holds an MBA from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Saint Francis.

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Jennifer S. Choi is chief counsel of ICI Global and is responsible for leading the Institute’s global policy work on cross-border legal and regulatory matters affecting ICI and its members. Choi has held various international roles within ICI, including associate general counsel for global capital markets policy and associate counsel for international policy. In addition to her role at ICI, she serves as an adjunct professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, teaching regulation of mutual funds and investment advisers. Earlier in her career, Choi worked in an international policy role at the Investment Adviser Association. From 1995 to 1999, she held various positions at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including assistant director in the Division of Investment Management and special counsel in the Division of Market Regulation (now the Division of Trading and Markets). At the SEC, she also received the Martha Platt Award for dedication, excellence, and integrity. Choi graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in economics, cum laude, and from the National Law Center at George Washington University, with highest honors.

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Sean Collins is chief economist at the Investment Company Institute (ICI). He oversees the Institute's statistical collections and its research on US and global funds, financial markets, the US retirement market, and investor demographics. His research and analysis focuses on the flows, assets, fees, and industrial organization of registered investment companies; financial market issues; the costs and benefits of laws and regulations governing funds; money market funds; and financial stability. He has held several roles at ICI, most recently senior director of industry and financial analysis. Before joining ICI in 2000, Collins was a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board and an economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where he participated on the RBNZ's Monetary Policy Committee. He is a current member of the Group of Economic Advisers (GEA) to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). He has a PhD in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in economics from Claremont McKenna College.

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Alexa Lam is chief executive of Asia-Pacific for ICI Global. She previously was professor of legal practices at the University of Hong Kong, where she will continue to be a visiting professor. Lam was a longtime official at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), where she most recently served as deputy CEO and executive director for investment products, international, and China. She actively promoted financial cooperation between Hong Kong and China on capital market opening, new reform policies, and cross-border market innovations, including the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) and Mutual Recognition of Funds programs. Lam has 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial law practice in Hong Kong, Chicago, and New York, and holds law degrees from the University of Hong Kong (UHK) and the London School of Economics.

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Amy Lancellotta is managing director of the Independent Directors Council. Before assuming this position, Lancellotta was a member of ICI’s Law Department, serving most recently as senior counsel. Before joining ICI, Lancellotta was in private practice, focusing on issues relating to investment companies and variable insurance products. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and the George Washington University National Law Center.

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Mike McNamee is chief public communications officer of the Investment Company Institute. Joining ICI in 2006, McNamee first served as director of media relations and then as senior director, policy writing and editorial. Before joining ICI, McNamee was deputy Washington bureau chief at BusinessWeek, where he held numerous positions during his long tenure. He also worked as Washington economics correspondent for the Dallas Morning News, economics reporter at USA Today, and business editor of the Indianapolis Star. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McNamee holds a BS in political science.

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Susan Olson is general counsel of the Investment Company Institute, serving as the Institute's chief legal officer, with responsibility for the full range of legal and regulatory matters affecting the Institute and its members. She joined ICI as senior counsel, international affairs, in 2007, and served as chief counsel of ICI Global since 2014. Before joining ICI, Olson served in the Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the SEC, Olson worked in the international branch of the division’s Office of the Chief Counsel, where she resolved legal issues arising under the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act, and provided guidance for trade negotiations. She also participated as an SEC representative on the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) Standing Committee 5, focusing on the regulation of mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. Before joining the Commission, Olson worked in private practice. She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and her law degree from the University of Virginia.

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Dean R. Sackett III joined ICI in June 2000 as a lobbyist and headed the financial services practice group before being appointed chief government affairs officer and co-head, government affairs, in March 2009. Previously, Sackett served as vice president and led the government affairs department of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). Before serving at PIA, he worked for Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA) as a legislative assistant, and for the House Appropriations Committee as senior Republican staff on the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. In that capacity, Sackett helped craft and oversee a $14 billion foreign-aid bill. Sackett graduated with honors from West Virginia University, and the National Law Center at the George Washington University.

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Dan Waters is managing director of ICI Global. He previously served as asset management sector leader at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA), leading the FSA’s regulatory and supervisory policy for the asset management industry. Waters also represented the UK in the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) Standing Committee on Investment Management. In addition, he represented the UK in the Investment Management Standing Committee of CESR (now ESMA), leading significant work in the revisions of the UCITS Directive (UCITS IV). Waters began work in the UK in 1993 as director of enforcement at the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation. Previously, he headed International Enforcement at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He graduated with highest honors from Boston College and with honors from Harvard Law School.

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