The SEC announced Wednesday that Jon T. Rymer, who currently serves as inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., will serve as interim inspector general of the SEC until a permanent successor can be found. He will also continue his duties at the FDIC’s Office of Inspector General.
Rymer succeeds Noelle Maloney, who has served as interim IG since the end of January and will return to her previous position as deputy IG. She had succeeded former IG H. David Kotz, who, as reported by AdvisorOne, left the agency to become managing director in the Washington office of the private investigative services firm Gryphon Strategies.
Rymer is a certified internal auditor and a certified government auditing professional. He currently serves as chair of the audit committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency and as vice chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Financial Oversight. He also is a member of the Comptroller General’s Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards.
Kotz had served as IG for four years, and during his tenure, according to a Bloomberg report, he and his staff issued 52 audit reports and 144 investigative reports—roughly double the number in the preceding four years. Among them was the notable 457-page report issued in September 2009 on the SEC’s failings in the Madoff case titled “Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme.”