Overview

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Harvey L. Pitt is the Chief Executive Officer of the global strategic business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the Kalorama firms, Mr. Pitt served as the twenty-sixth Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 2001 until 2003.  In that role,  Mr. Pitt was responsible for overseeing the Commission’s response to the market disruptions resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for creating the Commission’s “real time enforcement” program, and for leading the Commission’s adoption of dozens of rules in response to the corporate and accounting crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s. Mr. Pitt served previously with the Commission from 1968 to 1978, including as the Commission’s General Counsel from 1975 to 1978.

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For nearly a quarter century before serving as SEC Chairman, Mr. Pitt was a senior corporate partner in the international law firm, Fried, Frank LLP. He was a founding trustee and first President of the SEC Historical Society and participates in numerous bar and continuing legal education activities to further public consideration of significant economic, financial, corporate and investor protection issues.  Mr. Pitt has been an Adjunct Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center (1975-1984), George Washington University Law School (1974-1982), University of Pennsylvania School of Law (1983-84), and Yale Law School (2007).