Steve Edward Heaney

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is a regulatory organization that oversees the municipal securities market in the United States. The private company is based in Alexandria, VA. Nanette Lawson has been the CEO of the company since 2011. The board was established by Congress in 1975 to protect investors and promote a fair and efficient market for municipal securities. The board sets rules and standards for underwriters, dealers, and municipal advisors, and provides market transparency through its Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) system.

Founded in 1931, Stone & Youngberg LLC is a broker/dealer located in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Stone & Youngberg Holdings LLC. Stone & Youngberg structures and distributes fixed-income securities for their clients which include financial institutions, investment managers, pension funds, insurance companies, state and local governments and hedge funds in California and throughout the US. The firm's research group supports the firm's sales, trading, and public finance efforts by tracking the firm's underwritings in the primary and secondary markets, particularly the below investment-grade issues.