Mary Kay Scucci, PhD, CPA is currently a Managing Director for the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) At SIFMA, Mary Kay is the accounting and finance subject matter expert and staffs numerous regulatory policy committees, including the Treasurer’s Committee, the Capital Steering Committee, the Regulatory Capital and Margin Committee, the Global Financial Institutions Accounting Committee, the IFRS Committee, the Asset Management Accounting Policy Committee, and the Product Controllers Committee. Mary Kay is also the subject matter expert to the Boards of SIFMA’s Financial Management Society (FMS) and the Internal Auditor Society (IAS). Before joining SIFMA Mary Kay 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, Mary Kay was Chief Financial Officer for Bear Stearns Asset Management (BSAM) and Managing Director of Accounting Policy for Bear Stearns. Over her career, Mary Kay 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 Fortune 500 corporations (Honeywell International and Bear Stearns), a start-up organization (Power Medical Interventions, Inc) and an international firm (Schering AG). Mary Kay is currently on the board of Informetric (a technology company), a trustee on William Paterson University’s Foundation Board, and on the Dean’s advisory board for William Paterson University’s Cotsakos College of Business. Her previous board service includes chairman of the audit committee for Power Medical Interventions, a publicly-traded medical device firm (NASDAQ: PMII) and trustee for the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF). Mary Kay is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She holds a BA from Duquesne University and played collegiate basketball and volleyball for Duquesne, holds a BA in Accounting from William Paterson University, a MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD (accounting and finance) from Rutgers University. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a guest lecturer at The Wharton School. Both she and her husband Rick are recently retired sixth-degree blackbelts.
