New Hire Roundup: U.S. Bank Wealth Management Welcomes Mook

New York Life announced recently that Cara-Anne Gagliano, Thomas Hendry and Don Desiderato have joined the company.

Gagliano is a senior vice president in the insurance group, in charge of information technology strategy and all application development for life products. She reports to Susan Paternoster, SVP and chief information officer for the insurance group. Prior to joining, she most recently worked at Nomura Securities International as global COO for equities technology. Before that, she held senior information technology leadership roles at CIT Group, Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Asset Management.

Hendry is SVP and treasurer, and reports to John Fleurant, SVP, deputy CFO and controller. Prior to joining, Hendry worked at Prudential, where he served in multiple key leadership roles in financial management, most recently as the treasurer for the life insurance businesses and prior to that focusing on solutions for defined benefit plans. Before that, he worked at Coopers and Lybrand in the financial advisory and assurance practices.

Desiderato is senior managing director and chief technology officer in the investments group, reporting to John Kim, president of the group. In addition, he is a member of the investments group senior leadership team. Prior to joining, he was most recently principal and industry analyst at Novarica. Before that, he held CIO roles at Prudential and ING, as well as various IT leadership positions at Citigroup. Copytalk CEO Maree Moscati Joins Shared Assessments’ Advisory Board

Copytalk announced that CEO Maree Moscati has joined the advisory board of the Shared Assessments Program, which enables its members to achieve a faster, more efficient and less costly means of conducting rigorous and comprehensive security, privacy and business continuity assessments.

Moscati, who joined Copytalk in 2012, has a long tenure in the financial services industry. She served in executive positions at South Trust Securities, South Financial Group and Colonial Wealth Management.

The Shared Assessments Program was created in 2003 by financial institutions, accounting firms, and key service providers to inject standardization, consistency, speed, efficiency and cost savings into the vendor risk assessment process. The advisory board is responsible for establishing goals and objectives for the organization, determining policy, and setting priorities for the issues that need to be addressed.

Steven Harris and Jay Hanson Reappointed To PCAOB

The SEC announced Friday that Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) members Steven Harris and Jay Hanson have each been reappointed for a second five-year term. Harris’s reappointment runs till Oct. 24, 2017, and Hanson’s till Oct. 24, 2018.

The PCAOB, established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, oversees the audits of the financial statements of public companies and broker-dealers through registration, standard setting, inspection and disciplinary programs. The SEC selects members and the chairman of the PCAOB after consultation with the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board.

Harris was originally appointed in 2008. He was previously senior vice president and special counsel for APCO Worldwide. For more than 15 years, he served as a staff director and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. He also served as a staff director and chief counsel to the Securities Subcommittee. He worked on all the legislation, investigations and oversight conducted by the committee from 1981 to 2007.He was a counsel to Sen. Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan from 1979 to 1981, and served as a counsel to Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas and as a representative to the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures from 1978 to 1979.

Hanson was originally appointed to the PCAOB in 2011. He previously spent nearly 32 years at McGladrey & Pullen. He served as the national director of accounting, overseeing the firm’s accounting guidance and training practices, as well as leader of the firm’s accounting standards broup. He served as a member of the emerging issues task force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 2006 to 2011. He also was a member of the financial reporting executive committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) from 2005 to 2011, serving as chairman for the final three years of his tenure.

Read the Feb. 27 New Hire Roundup at AdvisorOne.