Luis A. Aguilar

Aguilar served as a staff attorney for the SEC from 1979 to 1982 before leaving to take two securities-related jobs at two Georgia firms, Powell Goldstein LLP and Kilpatrick & Cody. He began his work at INVESCO in 1994.

At INVESCO, Aguilar served as the company's general counsel, executive vice president and corporate secretary. He also briefly served as the firm's managing director for Latin America and as a member of its board of directors and management committee. He left the firm in 2002, becoming a partner at Alston & Bird LLP and in the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in 2005, where he focused on corporate governance, private offerings, mutual funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers.

Aguilar was also an original member of the Advisory Council of Hemisphere Inc., an organization created by Georgia's governor to boost travel and investment between the state and other countries.

In November 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) forwarded Aguilar's name, along with that of Elisse B. Walter, a longtime financial industry regulator, to the White House for vetting,

Aguilar broke with tradition when he chose to have his official swearing-in ceremony in Atlanta, where he started his legal career in the 1970s, instead of Washington, D.C. He is the first Atlantan to be an SEC commissioner.

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