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Ola Persson

Ola Persson is Senior Vice President and head of Transparency Services. He is responsible for all business, technology and operational aspects related to FINRA's fixed income and equity trade reporting and quotation facilities (TRACE, ADF, ORF, OTCBB and the TRFs).

Mr. Persson joined FINRA in 2004, with responsibilities for the fixed income (TRACE) program. Prior to joining FINRA, Mr. Persson worked for ten years at Thomson Reuters where he held a number of positions in the Fixed Income division.

Holly Lokken

Holly Lokken is Senior Vice President in FINRA's Regulatory Operations, where she leads the Regulatory Operations Analytics business function—a centralized analytics center of excellence serving as the strategic hub for delivering rapid, innovative, and impactful analytics and intelligence sharing across Regulatory Operations.

Gene DeMaio

Gene DeMaio is the Head of Regulatory Services Management in FINRA's Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) Department and is responsible for managing FINRA’s relationships with securities exchanges and other entities for which FINRA performs regulatory services.  Prior to this role, Mr. DeMaio led the Options Regulation and Trading & Execution Examinations Programs in Market Regulation.

Robert Renner

Robert A. Renner is Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Financial Solutions. In this capacity, he is responsible for overall direction and oversight of FINRA’s accounting operations functions, including Revenue Management, Corporate Tax, Procurement and Payroll, as well as Corporate Real Estate, Physical Security and Information Operations, encompassing fingerprinting, entitlement and records services. 

About FINRA

Every investor in America relies on one thing: fair financial markets. To protect investors and ensure the market’s integrity, FINRA FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY is a not-for-profit organization that oversees U.S. broker-dealers. We work every day to ensure that everyone can participate in the market with confidence. 

Derek Linden

Derek Linden is the Executive Vice President for Credentialing, Registration, Education and Disclosure (CRED). In this role, he leads FINRA's registration, disclosure, testing and continuing education programs for the securities industry (Central Registration Depository (CRD), BrokerCheck and CE Online) and the delivery of similar programs for the SEC (Investment Adviser Registration Database (IARD) and Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD)) and other regulators.

Jeffrey Kalinowski

Jeff Kalinowski is Executive Vice President—Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. He provides comprehensive financial and administrative stewardship for the organization, ensuring disciplined resource allocation, thoughtful capital investment decisions and the operational infrastructure that enables FINRA to function effectively and securely.

Patrice Gliniecki

Patrice Gliniecki is Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. In this capacity, she manages FINRA’s Office of General Counsel’s Regulatory Practice and Policy Group, which is responsible for the rulemaking and interpretive functions for the organization. She also serves as the Chief of Staff of FINRA’s Chief Legal Office.

Richard Berry

Richard W. Berry is Executive Vice President and Director of Dispute Resolution Services (DRS).

Prior to serving in this capacity, Mr. Berry was Senior Vice President, Dispute Resolution. In that role, he oversaw the four regional offices-New York, Boca Raton, Chicago and Los Angeles-and the New York Case Administration unit.

Mr. Berry joined FINRA, then NASD, in 1995 as head of Dispute Resolution's Los Angeles office. In 2001, he was named Director of Case Administration in the New York City office.

Jennifer Piorko Mitchell

Jennifer Piorko Mitchell is Senior Vice President, Corporate Governance & Deputy Corporate Secretary. In this role, she ensures FINRA and its subsidiaries operate with the highest standards of governance excellence, and provides counsel to FINRA's Board of Governors and the FINRA subsidiary boards.