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Opalesque Industry Update - Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade
association for the global alternative investment industry, has
announced that Anthony D. Coley has been named Executive Vice President
and Managing Director, Communications, effective immediately. Mr. Coley
is responsible for developing and managing MFA’s global communications
and media outreach strategy. He most recently served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. “Treasury secretaries, senators and CEOs have all relied on Anthony's communications counsel, judgment and expertise. We are pleased to announce that our members will soon benefit as well,” said Richard H. Baker, President and CEO of MFA. “Anthony's deep familiarity with the media and legislative and regulatory landscape will help strengthen MFA's ability to communicate our industry's value to the U.S. and global economies and advocate for smart regulations that foster fair, efficient and transparent capital markets.” Mr. Coley will report directly to Mr. Baker and serve on MFA’s Management Committee. Since July 2011, Mr. Coley has served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Treasury, providing communications counsel to secretaries Jacob J. Lew and Timothy F. Geithner and working closely with the communications staff at the White House and regulatory agencies of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. While managing a team of media spokespersons, he developed public affairs strategies on a host of matters related to capital markets and banks and non-bank financial institutions, including financial regulatory reform, Treasury debt management, housing finance, cyber security and consumer finance and protection, among others.
Before joining the U.S. Treasury, Mr. Coley was a Director at Brunswick
Group where he advised Fortune 500 companies and others facing critical
public affairs challenges. A veteran of Capitol Hill, he concurrently
served as Communications Director and chief spokesman for the late-U.S.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions Committee, which Senator Kennedy chaired. He was also a top
press aide to U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Jr., U.S. Senator Zell
Miller and U.S. Senator Jon S. Corzine. In the New Jersey Statehouse,
Mr. Coley was press secretary to the Governor and later Director of
Public Communications for the State. He received a B.A. in Business
Administration from Morehouse College and M.A. in Legislative Affairs
from The George Washington University. |
Industry Updates
U.S. Treasury executive joins Managed Funds Association
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
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