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Jeffrey Gelfand Joins Wachovia Securities, LLC as CFO Richmond, Va. -- Wachovia Securities, LLC, announced today that Jeffrey Gelfand has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer. Gelfand joins Wachovia Securities from Merrill Lynch, where he was most recently Chief Financial Officer of that firm's Global Private Client Group, which employs approximately 13,000 financial advisors. Gelfand will be based in Wachovia Securities' Richmond, Va., headquarters and will serve on the firm's Operating Committee, its senior leadership panel. "One notable benefit of our recent combination with Prudential Securities has been Wachovia Securities' emergence as a leading firm in our industry," noted Daniel J. Ludeman, President and CEO of Wachovia Securities, LLC. "As CFO of our firm, Jeff Gelfand will provide overall strategic leadership for the financial elements of our business, with a particular focus on ensuring that our financial reporting and internal control capabilities reflect our increased scale. I am delighted to welcome him to Wachovia Securities." "Jeff Gelfand is a seasoned professional with significant experience in every financial facet of the securities business," said Emile Shahadi, Chief Financial Officer of Wachovia Corporation's Capital Management Group, the unit with which Wachovia Securities is aligned. "We are very pleased to have an individual of Jeff's caliber join us in this important capacity." Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB) and Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) announced on July 1, 2003, that the previously announced combination of their retail brokerage businesses has been legally consummated, creating one of the nation's largest retail financial advisory organizations, Wachovia Securities, LLC. Its parent corporation is owned 62% by Wachovia Corporation and 38% by Prudential Financial, Inc. One of the nation's largest brokerage groups, Wachovia Securities provides financial advisory, brokerage, asset management and other financial services through approximately 12,000 registered representatives in more than 3,300 locations nationwide. Wachovia Securities is the trade name used by two separate, registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wachovia Corporation providing certain retail securities brokerage services: Wachovia Securities, LLC, member NYSE/SIPC, and Wachovia Securities Financial Network, LLC, member NASD/SIPC. |
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