Brian Ruane was appointed CEO of BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services (AIS) in November 2009. He was formerly head of Global Client Management North America.  Brian is a member of the Board of Directors and Credit Committee of Pershing LLC. In 2003, he was co-opted onto the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Working Committee on the Future of the U.S. Government Securities Markets.

Brian is a member of the Advisory Board of the University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, New York. He is a graduate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the UK and Ireland and received his MBA in international banking and finance from the Zarb School of Business. Brian’s father comes from Crossmolina, Co. Mayo and his mother from Drumhaldry, Co. Longford. He and his wife Anna, who is from Dublin, live in New York with their four children.

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