The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) elected two new officers who will start their terms on 1 January 2013: Alex C. Kot (Nanyang Technological University) will serve as 2013-2015 SPS Vice President-Finance. He succeeds Min Wu (University of Maryland) who has held the post of Vice President-Finance since January 2010.     Charles A. Bouman (Purdue University) will serve as 2013-2015 SPS Vice President-Technical Directions. He succeeds Ahmed Tewfik (University of Texas at Austin), who has held the post of Vice President-Technical Directions since January 2010.