After nine months of leaving the position vacant, the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally named a new chief accountant: Conrad Hewitt, a veteran of the Ernst & Young accounting firm and former top regulator for the state of California.
Hewitt will assume the post on Aug. 18, filling the slot that had been left open since Don Nicolaisen left the agency last October. Scott Taub, the SEC’s deputy chief accountant for several years, had been acting as chief accountant in the interim.
