Past Events 2009 - Speakers


Ron O'Hanley
President and Chief Executive Officer of
BNY Mellon Asset Management

Ronald P. O'Hanley is President and Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon Asset Management, the asset management company of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. He is also Vice Chairman of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and a member of the Executive Committee, which is the senior-most governing body of the Corporation.

BNY Mellon Asset Management is a global, multi-boutique firm. The asset management firms under Ron's leadership include: Alcentra; BNY Mellon ARX; BNY Mellon Beta Management; BNY Mellon Cash Investment Services; The Boston Company Asset Management; EACM Advisors; Franklin Portfolio Associates; Ivy Asset Management; Mellon Capital Management; Mellon Global Alternative Investments; Newton Investment Management; Pareto Investment Management; Standish; Urdang; Walter Scott and a joint venture - WestLB Mellon Asset Management. The firm is a leading global asset manager and in the top 5 institutionally in the U.S., with $995 billion in assets under management.

In addition to managing the investment subsidiaries, Ron is responsible for the U.S. and non-U.S. retail, intermediary and institutional distribution activities of BNY Mellon Asset Management. The U.S. business consists primarily of The Dreyfus Corporation. Dreyfus, established in 1951, is one of the nation's leading mutual fund companies, currently managing over $300 billion in more than 180 mutual fund portfolios nationwide as of the third quarter 2008.

Outside the U.S., the business consists of BNY Mellon Asset Management International, which is the Corporation's U.K.-based global distribution platform; BNY Mellon Asset Management Japan; BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia; a minority investment in Hamon Investment Management in Hong Kong, and various distribution agreements and representative sales offices in Asia and Europe. As of the third quarter, revenue from non-U.S. clients amounted to 40% of total asset management revenue.

Prior to the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation in July of 2007, Ron was Vice Chairman of Mellon Financial Corporation and President and Chief Executive Officer of Mellon Asset Management. He joined Mellon in February 1997 from McKinsey & Company Inc., where he was a partner and the leader of the firm's Investment Management practice worldwide and co-leader of its North American personal financial services practice. During his 10 years with McKinsey, Mr. O'Hanley was based out of Boston and, for a period of time, Stockholm, and he focused on financial services throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. O'Hanley most recently graduated from Harvard University Graduate School of Business. His not-for-profit interests include: Chairman of the Boston Public Library Foundation Board of Directors; Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; the Jobs for Massachusetts Board of Directors; Advisory Board of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Administration at Syracuse University; the Board of Directors of The Massachusetts Audubon Society and serves as a corporate trustee and member of the Advisory Council of The Trustees of Reservations. He is Visiting Professor in the School of Economics & Management Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and an offshore sailboat racer.





Emmanuel Roman
co-CEO GLG Partners LP
Emmanuel Roman received an M.B.A. in Finance and Econometrics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Paris in 1985. Emmanuel joined Goldman Sachs International Limited in 1987 where over the years he worked in the fixed income, investment banking and capital markets areas and in 1991 he become the co-head of Worldwide Equity Derivatives.

In 1996 Emmanuel became a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International Limited and in 1998 he was elected to partnership. In 2001 he was appointed co-head of Worldwide Global Securities Services and in 2003 he also became co-head of the European Equities Division. In September 2005, after 18 years at Goldman Sachs International Limited, Emmanuel joined GLG Partners LP as a co-CEO where he focuses primarily on expanding the business, marketing, risk management, operations, technology and compliance.