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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

Jeffrey Kalinowski is Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Financial Solutions. In this capacity, he is responsible for the direction and oversight of FINRA’s Financial Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis; Accounts Payable; Cash Management; Travel, Meetings & Conferences, and Investments & Treasury functions. 

Mr. Kalinowski joined FINRA in 2018, and prior to that he served in a variety of roles at Strategic Investment Group, T. Rowe Price, and Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. and Ivy Funds.

Eileen Famiglietti

Eileen Famiglietti, Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), leads the ERM program, which provides transparency around the enterprise-level risks FINRA faces in the execution of its mission, strategic goals and key business objectives. The program helps inform FINRA's strategic planning, budgeting and resource allocation processes, as well as its decision making. She oversees the day-to-day operations and execution of the program, working closely with FINRA's business line and department heads to identify, monitor, assess, respond to, measure and report on enterprise risks.

Alan Lawhead

Alan Lawhead is Vice President and Director of the Appellate Group. He leads a group of appellate attorneys who defend FINRA's decisions that are on appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Appellate Group also provides legal advice to FINRA's appellate body, the National Adjudicatory Council, in the following areas: appeals of Hearing Panel disciplinary decisions; statutory disqualification applications; appeals of membership application denials; qualification examination appeals; review of Hearing Panel expedited decisions; and amendments to the Sanction Guidelines.

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.

Gerri M. Walsh

Gerri Walsh is Senior Vice President of Investor Education at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In this capacity, she is responsible for the development and operations of FINRA’s investor education program. She is also President of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, where she manages the Foundation’s strategic initiatives to educate and protect investors and to benchmark and foster financial capability for all Americans, especially underserved audiences. Ms.

Jennifer Piorko Mitchell

Jennifer Piorko Mitchell is Vice President of Corporate Governance and Deputy Corporate Secretary. In this position, she assists in coordinating all activities of FINRA’s Board of Governors and manages the activities of the Office of the Corporate Secretary (OCS), including overseeing FINRA’s corporate elections. Ms. Mitchell also serves as the Secretary of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation).