BNY Mellon has appointed Jim McEleney as chief operating officer (COO) for Europe, Middle East & Africa, based in London.
As COO of EMEA, McEleney oversees the regional governance framework on behalf of all BNY Mellon businesses and operations in EMEA, and has full responsibility for the management of BNY Mellon’s relationships with EMEA regulators.
McEleney was formerly CEO of BNY Mellon’s operations in Pune India and a member of the company’s Asia Pacific Operating Committee. He joined BNY Mellon via The Boston Company as a financial analyst in 1987. The majority of his career with the company has been in asset servicing where, before setting up BNY Mellon Wealth Management in London in 2006, he served for three years as chief administrative officer of global asset servicing.
Michael Cole-Fontayn, chairman of EMEA at BNY Mellon, said: “Jim is a strong and experienced leader with a deep knowledge of our business, both here in EMEA and globally. Over the past few years he has been instrumental in growing our operation in Pune, one of our global centres of excellence, and I have no doubt he will bring the same expertise, dynamism and commitment to his new role.”
(JDC)