The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has announced 19 new and re-appointed members to its Standing Advisory Group. These members will serve two-year terms beginning in January 2010.

New appointments to the SAG are:

John Archambault, National Managing Partner of Professional Standards, Grant Thornton;

Dennis Beresford, Ernst & Young Executive Professor of Accounting, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia;

Neri Bukspan, Chief Quality Officer and Chief Accountant, Credit Market Services, Standard & Poor's Financial Services;

Douglas Carmichael, Claire and Eli Mason Professor of Accountancy, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College;

Michael Gallagher, Assurance Partner and U.S. National Office Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers;

Patricia Ann Harvey, Vice President, Corporate Audit, Delta Air Lines;

Anthony Kendall, Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell & Titus;

Mary Hartman Morris, Investment Officer, Global Equity, California Public Employees' Retirement System;

Kevin Reilly, Assurance Partner, National Professional Practice Group, Ernst & Young; and

John White, Partner, Corporate Department, Co-chair of the Corporate Governance and Board Advisory Practice, Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Reappointments to the SAG are:

Margaret Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Vice President, and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial;

Gaylen Hansen, Audit Partner and Director of Accounting and Auditing Quality Assurance, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman;

Gary Kabureck, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, Xerox Corporation;

Wayne Kolins, Partner and National Director of Assurance, BDO Seidman, LLP, and Global Head of Audit and Accounting, BDO International;

Jeffrey Mahoney, General Counsel, Council of Institutional Investors;

Barbara Roper, Director of Investor Protection, Consumer Federation of America;

Lawrence Salva, Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Controller, Comcast Corporation;

Kurt Schacht, Executive Director, Centre for Financial Market Integrity, CFA Institute; and

Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO.

The SAG is chaired by PCAOB Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards Martin Baumann.

All members' biographies may be found on the PCAOB Website.

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