Caroline O'Connell is a Managing Director and a member of the Executive Committee and Finance Committee for Pershing, a BNY Mellon company. In this role, she oversees Business Planning, Corporate Communications, Marketing, and Product Management and Development. She joined Pershing in 1991 and is responsible for creating and building Pershing's marketing function.

Ms. O'Connell is a member of the Marketing Leadership Group and the Financial Markets and Treasury Services Marketing Council within BNY Mellon. She was the first co-chair of Pershing's Diversity Advisory Board that was instrumental in the evaluation and selection of a diversity philosophy and process for the organization. Ms. O’Connell was a member of the BNY Mellon Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) Executive Committee at its inception and has been a speaker for WIN. She has been honored twice as a Pershing Super Achiever.

Ms. O’Connell is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Curriculum Committee for the Securities Industry Institute® (SII), sponsored by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). She is also a member of the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) and is the chair of the Marketing Committee for IRI and a member of IRI’s Marketing Conference Planning Committee. Ms. O’Connell is a member of the Financial Communications Society (FCS) and has been a judge for the Portfolio Awards and a speaker for the FCS. She is also a member of the Women’s Forum, Inc. of New York. Ms. O’Connell served on the SIFMA Sales and Marketing and Private Client Services Committees for more than 10 years and is a past chair of the SIFMA Sales and Marketing Conference.

Ms. O’Connell earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from Old Dominion University. She has completed the SII program, sponsored by SIFMA, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed The Women’s Leadership Forum, a leadership development program, at Harvard Business School.