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June 29, 2009

PRMIA Announces Katherine R. Macleod - New Regional Director of the New York Chapter

PRMIA announces today the appointment of Katherine Raaberg Macleod to the position of Regional Director of the New York Chapter. Katherine Macleod is a Vice President in the Global Securities Services Risk Management group of Goldman Sachs, managing market and counterparty risk within Prime Brokerage. Katherine joined the firm in 2002 in Prime Brokerage Risk and Quantitative Services, designing risk models and analytics for a proprietary risk application. In 2007 she launched Risk Consulting Services offering within Prime Brokerage, advising hedge funds in the area of risk management and quantitative analysis.

Katherine will be replacing James Tunkey as Regional Director of the New York Chapter. Katherine has been a member of PRMIA since 2003 and has been involved with the chapter as an active Steering Committee member for the past two years. In her role as Regional Director, Katherine will continue to cultivate relationships with senior risk professionals through C-Suite and CRO Summit events. Katherine sees opportunities to better leverage the thought leadership gleaned during these sessions, both through improvements in communication to the New York membership and also by integrating these themes into broader membership meetings.

In addition to adding value and promoting the PRMIA organization at a senior level, Katherine feels the New York chapter is at a unique juncture in being able to serve the ‘next generation of risk managers.’ She states this fits directly with our mandate, both in being able to promote PRM as the highest standard of risk certification as well as leveraging an energetic volunteer base. Adding value to a broader cross section of PRMIA’s member base through content, networks and mentoring should ideally lead to increased membership.

PRMIA would like to take this opportunity to thank James Tunkey for his invaluable contributions to the New York chapter and PRMIA. James was a member of the Regional Director Support and Standards Committee from 2003-2007, he was the Regional Director of the Hong Kong chapter from 2003-2004 and served the New York membership as Co-Regional Director from 2005-2006 and became sole Regional Director in 2006. PRMIA is delighted that James will continue to support the local chapter as a member of the New York Steering Committee.

PRMIA wishes Katherine much success in her new role and we look forward to seeing the continuance of excellent events held in New York in addition to new opportunities for the membership.

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