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Chairman Cox: The First 80 Weeks

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At the Practising Law Institute’s “SEC Speaks” series last Friday, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox delivered a speech recapping his first 80 weeks on the job, likening himself to Phileas Fogg in “Around the World in 80 Days.”

Nothing startlingly new in it, but it does make you realize how much has happened since he took the helm – which seems like only a couple of months ago. To wit: overhauled compensation disclosures in proxies. One-hundred-thirty backdating investigations. Improved disclosure of insider transactions making the investigations possible. Improvement in the application of auditing standards over internal control evaluation.

Plenty of stuff, to be sure. And there’s bound to be more of the same themes going into his next 80 weeks. On the other hand, I’m always a little worried when someone knows the exact number of weeks or months they’ve been in a job. Will there be 80 more weeks?

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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