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Mary Kay Scucci
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
ms4231@columbia.edu
Biography:
Mary Kay Scucci, PhD, CPA is a Managing Director for the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).
At SIFMA, Ms. Scucci staffs several committees, including the Regulatory Capital and Margin Committee, the Global Financial Institutions Accounting Committee, the Asset Management Accounting Committee and the Product Controllers Committee. Ms. Scucci provides accounting and finance subject matter expertise within SIFMA, and is the liaison to the Boards of SIFMA’s Financial Management Society and the Internal Auditor Society.
Before joining SIFMA Ms. Scucci founded Y&M Ventures, Inc. and provided consulting services for financial services firms such as Morgan Stanley and The Blackstone Group. Prior to Y&M, Ms. Scucci was Chief Financial Officer for Bear Stearns Asset Management and Managing Director of Accounting Policy for Bear Stearns.
Ms. Scucci’s recent board of directors service includes chairman of the audit committee for a publicly-traded medical device firm (NASDAQ: PMII), and she is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the Financial Executive Research Foundation.
Over her career, Ms. Scucci has held many senior financial executive roles including Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller, Director of Finance, and Director of Strategy Development for firms inclusive of a Fortune 50 corporation (Honeywell International), a start-up organization (Power Medical Interventions, Inc.), and an international firm (Schering AG.).
Ms. Scucci is frequently requested as a panel member for esteemed educational institutions and has been interviewed as a subject matter expert for The Financial Executive Magazine.
Ms. Scucci is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She holds two bachelor’s degrees, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD with dual concentrations in accounting and finance from Rutgers University.