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Fund Directors Will Gather in D.C. Tomorrow

About 150 mutual fund directors and others are converging on Washington, D.C.

Marco Adelfio
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Tomorrow morning the MFDF (Mutual Fund Directors Forum) will host its 2016 policy conference at the Ritz-Carlton in our nation's capital. SEC chair Mary Jo White will kick things off with her keynote speech, and the conference will wrap up on Wednesday at lunch time.

Other scheduled speakers include: Marco Adelfio, partner at Goodwin Procter; Jay Baris, partner at Morrison & Foerster; John Baumgardner, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell; Chris Casey, head of regulatory product development, regulatory and accounting products at Bloomberg; Vanessa Countryman, chief counsel for the division of economic and risk analysis at the SEC: Geoff Craddock, chief risk officer at OppenheimerFunds [profile]; Kay Dryden, independent director for the Nationwide Funds [profile] and CEO of Energy Dispute Solutions; Chad Earnst, vice president and chief compliance officer for Prudential Investments [profile]; Brendan Fox, partner at Dechert; David Grim, director of the division of investment management at the SEC; Sidney Harris, independent chair for the RidgeWorth Funds [profile] and professor at Georgia State University; Robert Helm, partner at Dechert; Clark Hooper, independent director for the American Funds [profile]; Philip Kirstein, independent compliance officer for the AB Funds [profile]; William McCalpin, independent director for the Janus Funds [profile]; Karrie McMillan, independent director for the Principal Funds [profile] and managing director at Patomak Global Partners; Gariel Nahoum, vice president and assistant general counsel of mutual funds for Neuberger Berman [profile]; Richard Salomon, lead independent director for the Tweedy Browne Funds [profile] and senior counsel at Cozen O'Connor; Lori Schneider, partner at K&L Gates; David Smith, executive vice president and general counsel for MFDF; Sarah ten Siethoff, assistant director for the division of investment management at the SEC; and Craig Tyle, executive vice president and general counsel for Franklin Templeton [profile].

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