Harvey Pitt

Harvey Pitt

Harvey Pitt was the 26th chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving from 2001-2003. He resigned after a tumultuous two year tenure. He led the SEC in restoring the U.S. securities markets to full operations after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, instituted a policy of "real time enforcement" to make the SEC's enforcement efforts more effective, and led the SEC in the adoption of dozens of rules to implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Pitt's tenure was highly controversial. In what USA Today called "a stunning end to his tumultous reign",Fact|date=September 2008 Pitt resigned on November 5, 2002 (election day) citing "the turmoil surrounding my chairmanship" in his letter to the President.Fact|date=September 2008 Pitt came under much criticism from DemocratsFact|date=September 2008 for being allegedly too close to the accounting industry and subverting efforts to tighten regulation in the wake of the Enron scandal and other cases of corporate malfeasance.

He worked to reconcile the demands of accountants, financial services firms, public companies, institutional shareholders, legislators and stockholders with such legislation as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Prior to that he was a partner of a global Washington, DC law firm and was widely considered one of the preeminent experts in his field. He coined the phrase 'corporate Darwinism'.Fact|date=September 2008

Pitt graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1961, [cite magazine |url=http://www.tradersmagazine.com/magazine2.cfm?aid=959&id=1&year=2002 |title=The SEC's New Pit Bull: But Religious Right' Want Another Chairman |first=Sanford |last=Wexler |journal=Traders Magazine |accessdate=2007-11-02] Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1965, and from St. John's University School of Law with a JD degree in 1968. From 1968 to 1978, he served on the staff of the SEC, eventually becoming the agency's youngest-ever General Counsel in 1975, aged 30.

Pitt received an honorary LL.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law in 2002, and received the President's Medal of Distinction from the President of Brooklyn College in 2003.

He is the father of four, a columnist with Compliance Week, and a speaker and regular commentator in webcasts and television interviews on financial matters.

Other

* He was a founder and first president of the SEC Historical Society [ [http://www.sechistorical.org Virtual Museum and Archive of the SEC and Securities History ] ]

* He is now the Chief Executive Officer of the global strategic consulting firm, "Kalorama Partners, LLC".Fact}

References

External links

* [http://www.kaloramapartners.com Kalorama Partners] website
* [http://www.complianceweek.com/contributors/harvey-pitt Harvey Pitt's Compliance Week column]

succession box
title=Securities and Exchange Commission Chair
before=Arthur Levitt
after=William H. Donaldson
years=2001 – 2003


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