The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Nicole Creola Kelly, a senior special counsel in the regulator’s general counsel office, as its new whistleblower program chief.
Ms. Kelly, who goes by Cree, has more than 20 years of experience with the SEC, the agency said Friday. She previously worked at the whistleblower office and served in other roles at the SEC, including as counsel to then-Chairman Mary Jo White and to then-Commissioner Kara Stein, as well as in the enforcement division’s complex financial instruments unit, the regulator said.
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Emily Pasquinelli, the whistleblower office’s deputy chief since May 2017, has been serving as the acting chief of the program since the departure of Jane Norberg in April.
Ms. Kelly spent about a year working at the whistleblower’s office after serving as counsel to Ms. White, according to Ms. Norberg, who worked with Ms. Kelly at the time and is now a partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP advising companies on whistleblower allegations. Ms. Kelly was later part of the staff at the general counsel’s office that reviews recommendations on whistleblower awards made by the office before they are submitted to the commission for final determination. “She is very well-informed about the work of the office,” Ms. Norberg said.
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