New York Financial Writers Association

The 2012 Board. From left to right, seated, Jan Alexander, Rich Wilner, Pierre Paulden, and Terry Wooten; standing, Bob Kozma, George Auerbach, Sharon Gamsin, Katy Burne, Imogen Rose-Smith, Conway Gittens, Sheila Mullan, and Steve Govoni. Missing from photo: Simon Constable, Stephen Foley, and Josh Friedlander.

Nominated as Officers:
President: Richard Wilner, New York Post
Vice President: Pierre Paulden, Bloomberg
Treas.: Jan Alexander, AR magazine
Secy-Asst Treas: Terry Wooten, Kitco News

Nominated to Board of Governors:
Katy Burne, Dow Jones Newswires
Simon Constable, News Hub/WSJ
Conway Gittens, Reuters
Stephen Foley, The Independent
Josh Friedlander, AR magazine
Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg
Robert Kozma, Dow Jones Newswires
Sheila Mullan, Market News International
Imogen Rose-Smith, Institutional Investor

Nominated as Associate Representatives:
George Auerbach, George Auerbach PR, retired
Sharon Gamsin, MasterCard, retired
Steve Govoni, Lord Abbett

Treas : Jan Alexander is a freelance writer and editor who covers global economics, corporate strategy and wealth management. Her articles have appeared in Forbes Woman, CBS BNET, Institutional Investor, Private Wealth, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek International, Money, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Harvard Management Communication Letter. She is currently working on the development team for a new financial talk show. As a features editor at Worth from 2003 to 2009 she oversaw the magazine’s coverage of the financial crisis and the economic outlook under Obama. She has a masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and has worked in Asia and taught a survey course in Chinese civilization at CUNY Brooklyn College, in addition to publishing a novel about business and political intrigue in China.

Associate Repesentative: George Auerbach joined the Financial Writers in 1952 and was on stage in the Follies from then until 2006. After a long stint as a reporter in the business news department at the New York Times from 1948 to 1963, he joined a financial PR agency and in 1971 set up his own financial PR firm. He retired in 1997. George served as NYFWA VP in 1962-63 and was the Follies’ first producer in 1988.

Governor: Simon Constable, News Hub/WSJ, is host, News Hub Web Show. Author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators (That Really Matter) (Pub. May 2011). Work published in The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, TheStreet.com, The New York Post, The New York Sun, The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Former scholarship winner.

Governor: Josh Friedlander is the Online Editor of AR: Absolute Return
+ Alpha, a print and online source of data, news and analysis on the
hedge fund industry. He previously reported on hedge funds, private
equity and Wall Street brokerage firms for Investment Dealers' Digest
and Institutional Investor News. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
History from Connecticut College. He served as a Governor of the NYFWA
from 2006 through 2008, and as President for 2009-2010.

Associate Representative:Steve Govoni is a Senior Financial Writer-Market Analyst with Lord Abbett, one of the oldest money management firms in the United States. He joined the NYFWA in 1986, served on the board from 1991 to 1993, and performed in seven Follies productions. A graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics & Business Journalism, he has worked as a supervisory analyst for Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Lehman Brothers. Before moving to Wall Street, he was executive editor of Financial World, a story editor at The New York Times, and senior editor at Corporate Finance magazines. While freelancing for numerous national publications, he was a contributing editor to CFO and Plan Sponsor magazines. As a newspaper reporter, he received a number of prizes, including a Deadline Award for exposing the fraudulent collapse of trucking companies in New York in New Jersey. As President of the Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, he received a public service award for raising awareness and protecting the rights of victims and survivors of medical malpractice. Since rejoining the NYFWA board in 2006, Steve has served on several committees and photographed numerous association events, including the Follies.

Governor: Conway G. Gittens has been a member of the NYFWA since 2003 after being "star struck" at the Annual Follies Dinner several years before. He became a member of the Board of Directors in 2006. After graduating magna cum laude from Long Island University, Conway joined Reuters Television in 1997. During his decade long career he has reported live from the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYMEX. His reports now focus on the growing eco-business environment as well as his much-loved beat covering the financialmarkets.

Governor: Jeff Kearns covers stock options at Bloomberg News in New York, writing intraday market news as well as feature stories about derivatives linked to companies and indexes. He also covers options industry trends involving banks, brokerages, exchanges and asset managers. Before joining Bloomberg in 2006 he covered California politics and government in Sacramento.

Governor: Robert J. Kozma is currently an editor on the Americas Desk at Dow Jones Newswires, a unit of Dow Jones & Co., where he has been employed for the past 17 years. He is also vice president of the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, or IAPE, the union at Dow Jones & Co. Previously, Bob was an editor and reporter at such organizations as AFX News (NY bureau chief), Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill, Fairchild Publications and Reuters. Bob has an MSJ degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a BA from Fordham University. A former NYFWA president and a former producer of the Follies, Bob lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.

Governor: Sheila Mullan is a senior bond reporter at Market News International. She has also worked as a freelance writer at the New York Times and New York Post's Sunday business news sections, and as an IPO reporter at IFR magazine in New York and Hong Kong, and a bond analyst at Standard & Poor's MMS in Hong Kong. She was president in 2007.

Secy-Asst. Treasurer : Terry Wooten is the editor-in-chief of Kitco News, a division of Kitco Metals in Montreal, Canada. Wooten, currently based in New York, is in charge of developing global news coverage in metals, energy and other commodities for the Kitco Metals Website and for other clients. From 2004 until 2009 Wooten was the Managing Editor/Commodities, Americas for Dow Jones Newswires, directing journalists and editors in North America and South America. Earlier, he was vice president and editor-in-chief of Futures World News, a financial news service, which became OsterDowJones Commodity News in a merger with Dow Jones. He joined Dow Jones Newswires as managing editor in 2004 when the merger was dissolved. Wooten has worked in Kansas City, Chicago and London as an editor, covering financial and commodity markets as well as economic news. He also reported on and directed coverage of Group of Seven meetings, the World Economic Forum, EU finance minister conferences and the 1992 exchange rate mechanism turmoil in Europe. Wooten has been editor of newspapers in Virginia and Mississippi. He also spent eight years with United Press International, covering civil rights, politics, and government in Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina. He studied journalism at the University of Mississippi.