Posted at 10:43 a.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Longtime SEC staffer to help oversee Hawai'i, West
Bloomberg News Service
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission named Andrew Petillon as an associate regional director in its Los Angeles office to help oversee enforcement in Hawai'i and eight other western states.Petillon, 46, was promoted from assistant regional director in the office's inspections division, the SEC said in a statement today.
He will move to enforcement to serve as a regional co-head with Michele Wein Layne, jointly supervising lawyers and accountants investigating and prosecuting securities law violations in Hawai'i, California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
"Not only does Andrew have the proven ability to lead enforcement and inspection teams on challenging and complex matters, he is an accomplished manager whose thoughtful and collaborative approach is widely respected," Randall Lee, the director of the SEC's Pacific Regional Office in Los Angeles, said in the statement.
Petillon, who has been with the SEC for 21 years, received the agency's supervisory excellence award last year, the statement said.
