Susan E. Skerritt

Executive Vice President, Business Strategy, Development and Investment
Financial Markets and Treasury Services

Susan Skerritt leads the Strategy, Development and Investment Division of the Financial Markets and Treasury Services (FMTS) Group of BNY Mellon. In that role, she is responsible for the strategy, innovation, merger & acquisition, and investment management activities of FMTS. The FMTS Group represents approximately one-third of the revenue stream of BNY Mellon and includes 6 of the most significant businesses of the Company (Treasury Services, Corporate Trust, Shareowner Services, Depositary Receipts, Broker-Dealer Services and Alternative Investment Services).

Since joining BNY Mellon in 2006, Ms. Skerritt has been involved with several high-profile projects and products. She had business management responsibility for the Global Corporate Trust CDO product during a period of extensive internal transitions and external market upheaval. The Global CDO business, which provides administrative and trustee services for highly structured collateralized pools of debt, contributed over $350 million in annual revenue in 2007, and has over 1,100 relationship management, analytics and loan processing professionals in 6 U.S. and European locations.

Ms. Skerritt also served as the Chief Administrative Officer for Global Corporate Trust. In that role, she co-led the complex global integration and conversion efforts associated with the bank's acquisition of JPMorgan Chase's corporate trust business.

Ms. Skerritt serves on the Company's Operating Committee, the Global Diversity Committee, the Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, NA, and the Womens' Initiative Network Steering Committee. She also chairs the North American Regional WIN Committee.

Before joining the BNY Mellon, Ms. Skerritt was a partner of Treasury Strategies, Inc., where she was responsible for the Corporate Consulting practice and management of the firm's New York office. She joined Treasury Strategies in 1998 after serving for more than twenty years in increasingly senior positions at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Ernst & Young and Morgan Stanley, primarily in the areas of treasury management, global custody and international treasury.

Ms. Skerritt has an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University and a BA degree in Economics from Hamilton College, where she serves as a Charter Trustee on the Board of the College. She is married with one child and lives in Brooklyn Heights.