Chief Accountant to leave SEC

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May 30, 2019

On May 30, 2019, the SEC an­nounced that Wesley R. Bricker, the agency's Chief Ac­coun­tant, will leave the SEC in June. The current deputy chief ac­coun­tant, Sagar Teotia, will become the acting chief ac­coun­tant after Mr. Bricker’s de­par­ture.

Mr. Bricker was ap­pointed acting chief ac­coun­tant in the SEC's Office of the Chief Ac­coun­tant in July 2016. He was named to the po­si­tion per­ma­nently in No­vem­ber 2016.

Mr. Teotia was ap­pointed deputy chief ac­coun­tant in March 2017. He is a former partner at De­loitte & Touche LLP.

For more in­for­ma­tion, see the press re­leases on Mr. Bricker’s de­par­ture and Mr. Teotia’s ap­point­ment on the SEC's Web site.

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