Jack Wixted of PNC Mortgage Company Elected RMA Chair; M. Robert Rose of Brookline Bank Elected Vice Chair

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jack Wixted, chief risk officer and executive vice president of PNC Mortgage Company, Downers Grove, Ill., was elected chair of The Risk Management Association (RMA). M. Robert Rose, chief credit officer at Brookline Bank, Brookline, Mass., was elected vice chair. Their one-year terms began September 1, 2011.

Wixted has long been active in RMA as chair of the Regulatory Relations Council and as a member of the Enterprise Risk Management Council and the Accounting Policy Committee. He is a past officer in RMA's Chicago Chapter.

M. Robert Rose has chaired RMA's Enterprise Risk Management Council and served on the Credit Risk Council. He also has been on the board of RMA's New England Chapter.

Newly elected to the RMA Board of Directors for three-year terms are:

Bob L. Caston, senior vice president and global commercial banking senior risk executive, Bank of America, Dallas, Texas.
Morten Friis, chief risk officer, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
Gail Jensen-Bigknife, executive vice president and chief credit officer, Security Business Bank, San Diego, Calif.
J.M. (Micky) Rigby, executive vice president and chief credit officer, Summit Bank, Arkadelphia, Ark.

In addition, the following were newly named to chair RMA councils:

Community Bank Council: Robert R. Messer, executive vice president and chief financial officer, American National Bank, Terrell, Texas.
Enterprise Risk Management Council: Yousef A. Valine, executive vice president and chief risk officer, First Horizon, Memphis, Tenn.
Market Risk Council: Murray McIntosh, senior vice president, Trading Credit Risk, CIBC, Toronto, Ontario.
Regulatory Relations Council: Peter A. Schnall, chief risk officer, Capital One, McLean, Va.

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About RMA
Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa., RMA has 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by over 18,000 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Visit the RMA website at www.rmahq.org.

SOURCE RMA - The Risk Management Association

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